I just watched the snippet of you bending Jim out on the outrun. I noticed it was on the fly. Also was that your comeby whistle or do you use a specific whistle for a bend out/redirect. My friend and I worked in her big field the other day. We did some outruns in a different part of the field that we have never done. I sent my dog first on a comeby outrun. To the left there is a lot of scrub brush and swampy, a dog couldnt get through it, she tried to go around it but came inside of all that stuff then at about 9:00 it theres a spot where the dog can bend out and they can kick out and go wider. When she hit that point I whistle a redirect comeby whistle and she bent way out on that side and came in nice at the top. I can also do that at my house. I have a smaller area, but when I send my dogs on an outrun towards my house on the comeby side, they go out to the horse fence and when they come to the end of the horse fence they really need to bend to the left and go out around the swimming pool to get out nicely behind the sheep set out beyond the pool. I did that with all three open dogs the other day and when they hit the corner of that fence I whistled my comeby for a redirect and they all did about a 90 degree bend. Are those options or opportunities to help teach them a redirect/or to bend out on the outrun? Thank you Margaret
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