[B4Ranch]

A working dog is not a stock animal that is cared for to reproduce like cattle are. They do have a cash value of course but these dogs are animals that become your friends, your partners, your protectors. The very same attributes which you are towards them.

Yes, they generally ride in the bed of the truck or if the weather is cruddy, then you put a piece of canvas down so they can get in the cab to fight off the cold.

When they start getting old, you leave them at home if you know the day is going to be a long hot one. You know, one of those ones that starts before sunrise and doesn’t end until the job is done. There is no reason to let an animal work itself to death just because it will.

[rlmorel]

Thanks...having never owned a dog as a work animal, I think I get the idea.

[Travis McGee]

I’d say you’ve spent a fair amount of time around livestock and dogs, judging by #80. Well said.

Love to hear your feelings toward horses. Closer to livestock, or dogs?