You know what annoys me about this awesome BaaaStuds video?

[firecat]

If you are a bunch of sheep herders in Wales with way too much time on your hands, a grant from Samsung, and a bunch of battery packs, and you outfit a large herd of sheep with LEDs, and then send them out in a field to make pretty patterns like fireworks, pinwheels, and sort of a game of Pong or Pong Tennis, what do you need to make it happen?

Border collies.

The border collies didn't get credited! They did all the work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

Comments

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

who cares, it's great fun.

and yes, the dogs get the lion's share of the credit. I've seen some of the trials, tho not in the field, but at the Cow Palace dog show and it is incredible.


Border Collies are so intense, and they live to work, so they may have been tired, but they will work like that until they drop, so the human trainers really have to know their stuff.

[firecat]

I saw them at the Mendocino County Fair. I wrote about it here:
http://firecat.livejournal.com/281557.html

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

great recap and lots of pictures. thanks for the link.

maybe I have seen some trials in that kind of setting, but I've also watched it on TV. and I knew some very well trained Border Collies when I was showing my last dobie in obedience.