Description
Elfa Jade -8 years old female. She is a great-great grand daughter of Vic (1994 Nursery Champion)-one of her first dogs that she bought from Tommy Wilson. Jade is very smart, bossy with other dogs, slightly neurotic, and terrified of loud noises. Kay’s favorite thing about her is her quickness and courage on the sheep. Her sire is Jep – a dog that Faansie Basson placed 3rdin the National Finals. Her dam is Gwen, was a very talented imported dog. Besides sheep dog trials, Jade was Kay’s demo dog for obedience classes and knows several tricks-including high five and play dead.
Kay lives in Normangee, Texas, which is just outside of College Station, the home of Texas A&M University. She became involved in herding in 1988 with a smart little sheltie. She got her first border collie, Grace, in 1992 and started in novice competitions with her in 1995. Kay did limited trialing and mostly close to home due to the demands of work until 2009 when they moved to a larger property and Kay semi-retired. Kay worked as a veterinarian initially as an equine intensive care specialist, then making a career change to specializing in behavior and training problems in dogs. Since 1992 Kay has trained hundreds of dogs of all breeds and helped multiple dogs suffering with anxiety and aggression. She trained two of the Reveille mascots -rough collies- for Texas A&M. Kay recently co-authored with Beth Kerber a book on training border collies for herding.
