BEAM

About Beam

Beam is a very cute and happy dog with a very stable character. She is easy to live with and I’d say she is a softer dog. As a puppy she basically hasn’t destroyed anything and has very quickly been house broken.

She is very open to people and has no problem with children, but she also doesn’t bother random people and ignores them if they don’t make contact with her. She adores people that she knows and loves to give kisses straight to your nose. With children she is gentle, not too pushy and totally relaxed. After her first litter I’ve noticed that she can be uncomfortable near some children, especially if they are visiting our home. She does not seek conflict with other dogs, usually she ignores them but she does not like males who are too pushy and stick to her behind.

Even as a puppy she was very brave in all places and even though we live in a small town she never had problems visiting Ljubljana our capital city. Now that she is an adult, I can easily take her with me anywhere I go.

Inside she is quite and doesn’t bark. She doesn’t have a lot of guarding instinct and doesn’t guard our house or the car. Of course she is still an Australian shepherd, which means that if something strange would happen around our house she would be alert and give a warning bark or two.

WORK:

When she is working she has a very good focus and gives her best to complete the task. She loves obedience, where she is fast and very precise. She has a very good food and play drive. Her favourite toys are balls and balls on a rope. On our search and rescue trainings she shows a lot of will to work, she is good at microlocation and has no problems barking at helpers. Most of the times she gets food as a reward for the find and she is the happiest dog on the planet when we praise her. It’s hard to describe how she acts and feels, I’ll try to make a video of it, somehow she is just so happy and proud when she does a good job.

 I have built her play drive from the beggining and she is now very enthusiastic about toys. She needed some time but is now crazy about balls (fetch), she also loves to tug.

HERDING:

When she was 10 months old she tried herding for the first time. Since then we try to train as often as possible and have also attended our first herding trials. She is calm and biddable and very patient with the stock. We have been to quite some trials where I noticed that she prefers practicals tasks. She likes if what she is doing makes sense to her and she loves pen work. Hence she prefers farm trials over normal trials. She doesn’t like mico-managing. Right now she prefers to work closer to me (and with me). Unfortunatelly we don’t have a chance to train cattle so this is where she lacks confidence. I think she prefers drive over fetch and is more of a “straight” dog.

We’ve been on a couple of exams and competitions where she has proved her qualities. I’m very happy to say that even on exams where there is no rewards she shows good focuse and loves to work with me.

In case you want to know more about Beam, you’re welcome to ask me anything. If you are in town, you can also stop by and meet her in person or join our trainings.