It feels like a big old story, every time I herd sheep with Red and Fate, there has been training, but more than that, the dogs are playing out one of the most ancient rituals between human beings and animals, the work they do together, the work they have always done together. I think of life on the earth as a partnership, between me and them. They are not piteous and helpless creatures in need of rescue to me, they are my partners in the joys and travails of life.

Men and woman and dogs have been running farms and herding sheep and livestock for thousands of years, it is in all of our blood, I think, there is something elemental and grounding to it. I hope we never lose sight of our work together.