Since arriving in the UK, we spent some time living on a hill farm in Southern Scotland and then moved to Wales where we now call home. The hill farm we lived on had about 5,000 acres of demanding hill terrain and 2,200 Scottish Blackface sheep. This was an excellent training ground for our young dogs. The variety of terrain has given us wide scope to extend the skills and experiences of our dogs in every aspect of their work with stock.

We moved to Wales this year and now live on a smaller farm (about 200 acres) but still in the hills! Here we train mostly on Beulahs. We live in a beautiful spot with fantastic views to the Black Mountains.

Being enthusiastic trail and fell runners, the running terrain here is spectacular and diverse. All runs involve hills! The country roads are quiet to run on and safe to take the dogs with us. There are many trails to run on as well, plus forests and not far from where we live is a well-known mountain biking area which is also perfect for running.

Our home in Wales. These are the views from one of the training fields.




Views to the Black Mountains. We just regular visits from the military.

This was our Scottish home with great in-bye fields to train on and the hills beyond.