About this episode

This episode explores the relationship between working cow dogs and horses, discusses livestock moving rules, and features western music and poetry.

Sometimes a good working cow dog can be a cowboy’s next best friend after his horse and this week you’ll hear some fascinating insight into the working of a dogs mind, and how it compares to the way horses respond. The rangeland news has more about the backlash over the CFIA’s proposed new livestock moving rules, The horse training file, tells you when it’s time to move young horse out of his comfort zone. As always a great list of pure western music, and a fine piece of cowboy po...

People in this episode

Host: Hugh McLennan

Topics covered

• working cow dogs
• horse training
• livestock moving rules
• western music
• cowboy poetry

Keywords

• cowboy
• working dogs
• horse training
• livestock rules
• western music
• cowboy poetry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CFIA

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