Another thing SophieRose has to learn is how to deal with water tanks. First she has to learn how to get in and out of them :). Then, later she has to learn that she gets to go to water when I say so (and my responsibility is to make sure that she doesn't get overheated and has access to water).
Now some stock people get real upset about dogs getting into water tanks. I've heard two reasons. The first is that the dog just doesn't get to decide when to go to water and the second is that dogs in stock tanks leads to dirty tanks that make more work for the human.
In my case, my "sheep partner" and I have decided that we will just clean tanks when needed and also that we would rather a dog go to water than not when it's hot so we have chosen not to make the water tanks severely off limits except when permission is granted. We'd rather have live dogs than some points at a trial and, when we're doing chores, you can also redo if the dog going to water causes a problem.
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