Bill Ellis', Carthage, MO, Molly working while Bill and friend David Clark, Baxter Springs, KS look on.
Welch Sale Day. Lloyd Martin, Welch, OK & Ben closing the trailer door. Lloyd hauled them in for us.
Darvin Nix, Tate Ranch boss, oversees moving a large bunch( 900 head) of their beef cattle. He uses his good Border Collie Kate on the ranch.
Brad Bell with son Britt look on as Ben works a dog. Brad runs a large spread with cattle and sheep west of Welch.
It's family month. Rick Cole's "Show Me" is a litter brother to Colt.
Dr. Liz & Matt Fullbright, Mike & Debbie Kessel. We prayed for group member, Shirlene Ayres, who survived a serious auto accident that day.
Ya gotta love enthusiasm. Rick Cole, Nowata, Oklahoma sends his nice "Ace" dog after the cattle.
Ace loves what he does. He was Rick's Sundowner Futurity dog this year.
Allen Sanders, Bluejacket, Oklahoma, brought over Reba, Colt's sister.
Ben and Allen stop by Jerry Piguet's, Vinita, Oklahoma to look at dogs and Boer goats.
Ivan Rule of California, stopped by on his way through one evening. Ivan uses Border Collies with his sheep.
Ben got a kick out of Ivan's Patterdale Terrier puppies. One brindle and one black and tan.
Perch is pointing to her dinner bowl !
Ben's got in Matt Fullbright's nice yellow roan filly to gentle her. He's already got her leading and picking up her feet.
"Gin's" a Cee Booger Red gal.
Keeper, Australian Working Kelpie, bringing in the pasture calves.
Ben's Lue doesn't let the calves dally.
Buddy Ed Hamersley stopped by one day with some new prospects. This pup is about 9 months old.
Carl Nall, Bluejacket, OK runs one of the Cherry Ranch operations. Stop by to check out a new female and talk dogs and training.
Ben working Carl's female.
One of this year's "kids" looking on as Ben works dogs.
Ben's sold all the billy kids and is having a hard time deciding which of his nice percent Boer does he will sell.
Whadda guy. He brought Leslie a pretty bouquet.
Our very own award winning auctioneer, Greg Highsmith, belts out praises to the Lord at Cowboy Junction Church.
Cowboy Junction does it part for Katrina victims. Church member, George Jolly, KLIFE radio (right) asking for supplies and contributions.
Neighbors Ken Posey (the bashful one) & Bud Highsmith (yep, Greg's dad) on their way to the great McSpadden pasture roping at Bushyhead.
