Cowdog Days ’09 kicked off with a cowdog production sale and followed with two days of cowdog and handler schooling. Unlike the previous clinic, the weather was beautiful for the first weekend in November.

The production sale drew buyers from several mid-western states as well as West Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Both started (trained) cowdogs and a litter of six-month-old pups were offered for sale. The started cowdogs were demonstrated by working independently to gather cows, yearlings and weaning heifers from drylot pens. The six-month-old pups, along with their sire, Bert, and dam, Hawk, gathered 30 weanling heifers from one lot and brought the calves to the working corrals. All the cowdogs were demonstrated without the use of electronic collars.

The high selling started cowdogs were Tammy’s Cowdogs Reba, a March 16, 2008 blue merle female selling for $3,500 and Tammy’s Cowdogs Spook, an August 21, 2007 black tuxedo-chested female selling for $3,500.

The high-selling six-month-old cowdog pup was Tammy’s Cowdogs Claire, a May 4, 2009, blue merle female selling for $1,800.