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Dyna-Mite (-Might)

Breed: Border Collie, shiny straight but long coat, pointy ears, slim, aerodynamic build and intelligent eyes.
Nicknames: Dizzy, Di, Princess Di, Dyna Sore, D Mite, Dee, Sneak-licker (because if you aren’t paying enough attention she’ll reach out and lick you to death).
Age: 13
Favourite game: flyball but also agility
Favourite toy: whatever you have in your hand will do
Favourite Food: hard to tell but I’d guess that it was bread or anything you’re ready to give her
Other sports (other than flyball): agility, sheep herding

            Dyna is a very independent character who loves to run in the fields and barks as much as she can. In sheep herding, however, she can be very calm and cool when doing her job but won’t stand for being bossed around by the sheep. She is a very intelligent dog but insists on being at the bottom of the pecking order in our family (more cuddle time and less work at being dominant). She is very cuddly and would rather be praised and played with than given food for her efforts—though both is good.

Dyna is one of those dogs that just loves to run. Flyball was great for her because she loved to speed past the dog on the other team. The only problem was that her box turn was horrible (something that wasn’t recognized as a problem when she started in flyball back in    ). Dyna had to retire flyball at the age of 8 because of back problems caused by soft tissue damage; flyball and her bad box turns only irritated it more. Since then she has taken up sheep herding at the age of eight and is now just happy to be a couch potato; sucking up as much cuddle time and love as she can get. She still loves to run when she can and loves to be at our farm where she can run wild without too much damage to her back.
Stories:
            The first time that Dyna ever saw sheep was at the age of 11 months. A judge was letting people bring in their pups and see what they could do. He liked her then.
            Nearly seven years later, we took Dyna out on sheep and she blew us away with what she knew. Yes, she had done a bit of duck herding in the past but what she was able to do with sheep was way more impressive. She showed no fear or worry when the sheep turned on her, and all she had to do was snap her teeth at them to get them to move. Even though she has threatened to shift the sheep she has never had to; they know she means business. The only thing is, she can move the sheep just by looking at them which makes for interesting viewing, when the dog is twenty feet away and the sheep are still moving.
However, she is a very good judge of body movement and knows just how far and how fast to move the sheep at a galloping pace right back to my mother and stop them right in front of her. The only problem is getting her to lie down….lie down…LIE DOWN NOW!!!
She still managed to get a second in her first trial and a fourth in her second in novice-novice in the short time that she was working and that was with and inexperienced handler at the age of eight.

Dyna playing flyball at a Nutram Demonstration.
 Ball der Dashers 2001