Amazing young sheepdog, Big challenge / intense sheep herding 

Way to go Echo!! That did not look easy from Echo's perspective, especially towards the end when he wanted to gather up the other 2!! A quick shout to Storm, we hope she is continuing to heal up well.

Great video! Thank you for showing us Echo's progress! Hope Storm is doing well.

Brilliant job you two…sheep herder Sean & sheep dog Echo ….what a team! …..could see split second confusion on Echos part to herd to 1 group but he listened well to commands and got it done 👏

An exceptional dog! An exceptional shepherd! As I watched, I could see certain highly desirable characteristics in Echo that make me realize that, in addition to talent and training, genetics are important, too. I can see that, because I have been able over time to watch both Storm and Kate in action. That realization led me to understand the work and strategic thinking you have done even before Echo was conceived. Am I right?

I love your posts! Dogs doing what they were bred to do. They love to please and I think, in a way, proud of themselves. Beautiful, smart, dogs! ❤ I'm in Florida, USA. So hello from far away!

I love the way he says “that’ll do” 😊

So cool to watch these guys work. Love all 3 of your dogs

Love every episode Thank you

Great job Echo. 👍💓☮️🇨🇦☕🦫

Echo is still young...you can see her wanting to go after the sheep...it's hard to stay still!

Great video. Way to go Echo!

Again, that is incredible to watch Echo work. Fantastic training on your part. I wanted to ask, is a lot of this born into them because I watched another of your videos of puppies working the sheep.

XO XO XO XO XO XO XO XO speechless!!

Excellent to watch Echo listen to you Sean - he was trying to gather as per his training, but he stopped when asked and listened perfectly to you. Loved how you praised Echo too. Wonderful to watch, Sean. Thank you 🐾

Wow that was intense...those little sheep are sneaky! Love the Echo Cam, he was doing his best. He's made so much progress!

We all love to watch these beautiful intelligent bundles of bright energy, but let's not forget that behind it is the brilliance of Sean and his skill, knowledge and dedication to his craft and the love for his dogs. People see BCs and think, quite rightly, that they are the best dogs on the planet, but they need tireless skilled handling and a whole heap of fuss and love. Beautiful to watch. Patricia

Just beautiful to see, Echo balancing obedience to your commands and his powerful instinct to go his own way😊. He's only going to get better. Great music Sean, it highlighted the drama of the task👌. Blessings to you, Stacey and your pack.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! You could almost see Echo's thought bubble,'But, there's two over here.' Good job!

It must be so confusing to Echo to leave the two sheep separated because it seems Border Collies are perfectionist when given a job, and Echo has never separated the sheep before so he thought he was not doing a good job. Great job, Echo!

Fantastic job! Echo did great work. You have done a great job training your dogs. 👍🏻

Great to see Echo learning to do such a fine job. Even enjoy your voice commands and how he hears and responds so quickly. Teaches us on how to direct our dogs.

The command to lie down must be the hardest command to learn. When the instinct to ran after is so natural

That went completely against his instincts, but he tried so hard to be a good boy! Amazing 😍

Incredible work! Echo is really coming along. Such FAST dogs - they can change their minds on-the-fly and he really wanted to bring those rams back into the herd. such a good boy! He listened grandly to you Sean. that was GREAT to watch!! He will soon become another Kate the Great!! Pray your little "rugby buddy" is healing well. Glad to see your smile back again.

I enjoyed that so much - but can't imagine how he could figure all that out!! Actually I can't imagine how you can figure all that out!! Especially when the sheep are trying to figure it out too lol. Just amazing through the dog cam. And I really enjoyed to see that you actually have a shepherd's crook!❤

Echo is getting better and better. Part of the learning is you being a good handler, Sean. I love how you are a team! Way to go 🤗🐾🐾🐾

I can’t describe the euphoria I feel watching these magnificent helpers RUN!! What a high! Best wishes and hugs and love to you all!

Great video, Sean! Echo is becoming a class A herd dog. Hope Storm is recovering well. 🐑

Great job Sean and Echo! I was tense! 😮That Boy so wanted to please. He is a fine dog and so beautiful. ❤ Blessings to Kate and prayer for Storm's continued recovery.

That was fascinating and very exciting to watch. You could see Echo wanted to gather those two rams, but as you kept redirecting him each time he started to, I was thinking about what smart dogs they are and their incredible problem solving skills. I felt like I could see him figuring out what exactly you were wanting. Incredible! And the choice of music with its growing intensity just added to the video. Great job, Sean!!

I love how you and Echo are working together. She did well on doing something new. Great Echo cam.💜🐏🐑💜

Y'all are an amazing team. Echo was probably wondering, "What the heck!", but listened so well to you. Remarkable video especially that you were herding and teaching all at once! Hope Storm is healing well.

That was so fun for us viewers to watch, Sean! Your instinct to make a video of that exercise was fantastic and right on! That's a great way for us to learn about the dogs and how they work and how you teach them. I really enjoyed! 😊🙏💖

Love watching your dogs work! Echo is definitely learning and doing very well! Glad to know that Storm is feeling better.

Really interesting to see the learning process going on. You can see Echo wanted to keep them all together. He was stressing about leaving two behind. But he'll add this to his can of tricks, I'm sure. Great stuff!

Echo is a champion! We live in the Pacific Northwest, Washington state & have raised sheep. Funny thing is I owned a sheep dog before we had sheep, they are amazing animals. Ours would even do animal impressions! He could do about 6 different animal, my boyfriend at the time taught him this trick on a long road trip... his name was Pablo & looked just like echo! We send our love to you & your family & flock! 🎉🎉🎉❤

I can hardly wait for Echo to rise up to the challenge! Nice start Echo! I love the dog cam, seeing Echo's ears like that makes one smile. Nice job Echo and good come by with a wide curve. I am impressed Echo! He is listening but sometimes is going on instinct, he wants a single pack, but has nailed listening to you.. Well done Echo!! Actually, I am going to watch this again!

Your dogs are beautiful!! The doggy cam is SO cool!!! Unbelievable that the camera doesn't roll down. 😂

Echo!! What a great dog!! He’s well trained Sean…great job ❤

It was tough and you did an amazing job Echo 👏🏻 ❤ ! You are such a good listener and you’ll be soon a great herding dog ! Sean I love watching all your shows ❤

He'll get there! Glad to hear Stormy is doing well. Hullo to Stacy!

Good boy, Echo! You worked really hard to keep the two rams separated out. How's your mom, Storm, doing? I hope she'll be back to work soon. I'm always in awe of the grazing pastures with such lush green grass. The grass in my yard is anemic by comparison.🐾💙🐾🌻🐾💙🐾💐

Great job by both of you. Poor Echo wasn’t quite sure what to think about not keeping all of the sheep together, but he listened to you anyway. 👍🏼👍🏼

Echo is doing so well! He did very well splitting the herd.

Another fantastic show by Echo!! Love how he can understand to leave the two sheep alone and keep his attention on the larger group :) Thanks Sean.

Oh my look at how sweet & lovely Echo is🏆He’s got ❤️heart❤️ Looks like a beautiful day in the pastures✨ ✨thank you Sean… Many Blessings to you & your. Family✨

Brilliant, love watching your collies working and for a young dog that was very good performance looking forward to seeing him progress.

That was fantastic! On “lie down”, the struggle was real for Echo! Instinct vs. training. But you both did a great job. Thanks for a wonderful video.

It was so fascinating to see Echo's response to your no comand when the sheep were separated. She wanted to put them back with the others. However when you said no, she understood right away that you wanted then kept separately, and went about her business leaving them behind. Laura, from Illinois USA

Excellent teamwork by both you and Echo. He did well for his first time splitting the herd.

Good job Echo! He really wanted to keep the herd together. Learning to separate is so obviously difficult when in the dog’s young mind and at his training level keeping the herd together is safe for controlling and defensive for the sheep, with dog guarding against any predator attack. Echo did some major learning in 7 minutes or less. Awesome! ❤️🐕‍🦺👍🥰

Good boy, Echo💚 very impressive. Sending a healing prayer for Storm. Take care, Sean and family.

I can absolutely see how difficult that would be for Echo !! But he is an amazing dog and wanting to please his handler is the right formula for success !!

Echo wants so desperately to please you! It's wonderful to see him get through some confusing moments and figure out exactly what you wanted him to do. It seemed he had a look on his face like "What about these other two??"

"That'll do". Love that. That was great to watch. Border collies are the best. Wonderful dogs, very clever & they have a lovely temperament. Best wishes to you Sean from Ireland. 👍

Good boy, Echo. With the herding and the filming.

Echo did awesome! He did great listening to commands. That has got to confusing, but he always relented to your commands (eventually)! Very impressive work, and love seeing the view from Echo's Go-Pro. Thanks for sharing your work adventures!

This was so cool ! Dog with a camera , what beautiful sheep & scenery . So glad to see this traditional work continue to be practiced 🤗

wow, that was some hard herding. echo did get confused but he absolutely nailed it.. way to go echo...love the dogcam too. Seeing the sheep from in between the dog's ears is pretty cool

Great job Echo ❤ Hope Storm is improving and will be back soon ❤️

I really love that camera view from your border collie Echo, just brilliant! 💙🐶

Beautiful team work!! Great video.

Incredible the trust between the two of you. Well done!

Well done, Echo! You could see him trying to figure out what you wanted the sheep to do, but being a bit unsure at first. For a first time shedding, you picked the most feisty and fast for him to learn with! Just want to add: the shedding part of competitions looks a whole lot simpler than what you wanted to do.

From the outset of this video... ECHO is as COOL as a cucumber !!! He's saying that he can handle ANYTHING that Sean throws his way.... AND be ready for more. Work for a BC is as 2nd nature as breathing is. The bigger the challenge, the BETTER !!

Love seeing the dog’s working. The echo cam was an interesting perspective. Good boy Echo ❤

Great job both of you!❤ Your love of herding is felt and seen, so pleased with all your videos. May you ALWAYS BE BLESSED🙏🙏🙏🥰🤗😇

action packed as always...is there not a command or something to inform the dog of splitting up the sheep into two groups?? I doubt it...just thought I'd ask...

That was absolutely impressive from Echos point of view. Don't mind me I'm just new here catching up on all the content.

Wow, Echo! Good boy listening to your commands. That was wonderful and amazing to watch. You're a great trainer, Sean!

I miss my border collie/ blue healer mix. He was moving cattle at 6months like a pro. Here in Kansas that's very important. He was a beautiful boy and was trained by whistle. Murphy was the best boy ever he was beautiful and looked like a blue Merle border collie. He moved cattle like a collie but could get a little nippy if need be. I miss the work and my best buddy.

Awesome video as always and a great job by Echo learning to split them! I took Winston to a herding clinic a week ago, his first time at 2 yrs old on sheep and he did amazing and was bringing and holding some difficult sheep to me. He impressed everyone including me. The instructor even said “A star is born!” when we exited. Amazing what instinct can do from working parent dogs. But, I think you being his favorite You Tube channel showing him what it’s supposed to look like might have given him a leg up as well! ;). Certainly not ready to go do real work, but he showed the instinct and desire and I’m excited to get him to the next one. Posted the video on here at Hado Bar Farms in Ohio and he is just loving continuing to watch your videos and his own. He eyes and stalks the videos like the sheep are in our living room! :).

That was great fun! I very much enjoyed the dog's eye view with the go pro camera. We have three Border Collies, too. They don't work sheep, but they do keep predators away from our chickens.

Echo gives me goosebumps when I watch him running. I love watching them all run, but Echo leans into it and runs like he was born to run!! True, I’m new and really haven’t seen them all yet, but what I’ve seen of this pup has really impressed me! ❤

Echo is amazing. Such beautiful dogs those border collies. Beautiful grass, fresh air - amazing life style.

Nothing brings more joy to my heart than watching working dogs / border collies doing their job. What a great video. Good job Echo. Thanks! ❤

Love love the herding group!!! I have Belgian Tervurens who have herding trials in the mountains. So much fun!!! They are amazing to watch when they are doing what they are meant to do!!!

The way you put your Videos and your choice of Music is Amazing. The First Video I watched brought tears to my eyes.

That was so impressive. You could tell he didn't understand why he had to let some go but he followed every command perfectly!!

Brilliant !! The Go-Pro on Echo was awesome! ❤

I’m exhausted and I was just watching. Good job, Echo. Woof! 💕🇺🇸

Great Job Echo! what a great team player you are!!

Good to see ya mate . Hello to you from Sydney Australia 👋 Good boy Ech ! That was intense!

Echo did so well for a young dog who has never split off sheep before!! Well done, Echo!! Good boy!!

That was quite a challenge! He did really well and I hope he got a treat back at home. Great job Echo and Sean.

Fantastic point of view from Echo. Thanks for including the dog cam.

Echo's learning fast! He's really made progress since the beginning.

Just wonderful. It must be so hard for doggies that so badly want to do their work. 😊

I love to watch these clever dogs work. Thanks for letting us watch them "do their stuff".

Great job Echo....what a great dog. He's learning so well.

Good boy, Echo, good boy! 🥰

Amazing place... I think..I want to go there 👍

Border Collies are great dogs! 🐶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💛☀️

Great job 👏👏👏 love watching you and your dogs.

OMG i AM CRACKING UP! Echo has ants in his pants! He has work to do and you keep telling him to lie down lol. Your dogs are so beautiful not to mention amazing. I watch all your videos!

Good boy, Echo! That was a challenging exercise and he had to control his natural urges, which as we all know, can be really hard! What is that beautiful stone building in the back? I can't get over the beauty of the landscape you live in.

Beautiful, lush and stress-free environment! Thank you! 🙏🏻👏🏻

У вас очень красиво. И собачка прекрасная.🐕😊

What a great dog. Brought tears in my eyes

That breed is the genuine smarty-pants of dogs haha ha! Good job Echo!👍