we thought that sheep dogs need to be collies, not vizslas, because vizslas are gundogs and not herders. but anyone who knows radio knows that he always fancied himself a bit of an all rounder, so he started training towards fulfilling his olymic dream and the training went well and he got lots and lots of compliments for getting to be an increasingly capable sheep dog, both enthusiast and stalker, so we simply gave it a go and entered this years regional trials in the lakes....
to start off, radio had to fulfill a (well, not so) simple 'round up' and 'seperate the flock into two' task. once he completed this in near record time, he progressed to a much more difficult task...
this involved needing to first flank, then bring the flock in towards the handler in a straight line, do a superfast turnaround and hold them there... 
(our nerves were quite chittery as we only just started to see success with this these last days and lasse forgot to take pictures in all the excitement)...
BUT: he did it - and, to our (and everyone else's) utter amazement, won 1st prize!!!!! as far as we know this is the first time a Vizsla has been awarded in such a category, we are well proud, well done super radio!!! 
we'll get pics from the awards ceremony sent soon and will add them to this post then...(thanks Andrew!)
