Jim and Nell, Skye and Maya are part of the French team for the first ever Mediterranean championship, organised this month in Portugal. Participating countries are Portugal, Spain, Italy and France.
2015 will be a year remembered with mixed emotions. We were very happy to welcome visitors from many countries and several continents here to our training centre. At home the family saw new additions in Lotta, Leo and Tia, and Freya, the cat. Maya and Skye did their first trials in the spring and had qualified for the top trial class by mid-summer. Our spring puppies left for France, Switzerland, US, Belgium and Italy, and the French Open sheepdog trial we organised here at our farm in October became a fantastic event with participants from 12 countries. But 2015 was also the year when Jim, after having shown signs of fatigue all winter, was diagnosed with the tick-born Lyme disease after
