THE BEST SHEEP-DOG.
DEATH OF A FAMOUS PRJZE-
WINNER
Pink, the greatest sheep-dog cf her day, belonging to Mr. Mas-’-' riff Liogyntyn Farm, Oswest-y, has dian the age of seven. Pink was endowed with aniost human sagacity, and had won more first prizes than any other sheep-dog
in trials in various parts of the country. She always carried off the prizes for the dog under best command, and at the Llangollen trials she won tho “blue ribbon” of the sheep-dog world twice in succession.
“I never patted her,” Mr. Moses said. “If I was displeased I told her so, and her ears went down. If others patted her she took no notice of them but looked at me as if to ask if it was right.” Pink was a smooth-liairod collie, cleanly built after the greyhound style. That was how she got her speed. She was as gentle with a chicken or a pig as with a sheep. She never distressed or irritated sheep, but if one were stubborn she would stand facing it, and at the whistle walk quietly up and seize it by the nose, and the sheep had to go where she wanted.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 10
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196THE BEST SHEEP-DOG. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 10
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