Lucy wrote today to say little Nico was kicked out of his obedience class. He was fine with the other dogs …until there was a group of them, at which point he felt duty-bound to herd them. The trainers said they “didn’t want him back.” Like his sister Faye, Nico is compelled to work and has no idea he is smaller than all the rest. As far as Nico and Faye are concerned, “Size doesn’t matter!”

Despite being kicked out of obedience class, Lucy & Jim are not sending young Nico back to Thundering Paws. Lucy writes: “He is still our most adorable wonderful tremendous everything we could ever ask for in a puppy.”

Nico is enrolled in Julie Hill’s online working sheep dog course, where over the next year he is learning her ‘Natural Way’. He is using the Herb Hill goats as proxies for sheep. Round ’em up Nico! You’ll have an easier time with goats than the dogs at obedience class.