WHEN the Beast from the East swept across the UK in early 2018, Wiltshire-based shepherd Jess King had a serious problem: ‘Sheep were buried in the snow and others, in trying to escape the drifts across the fields, had gone up onto a bank and got caught in brambles. They were stuck and it was too steep for me to reach them.’ Luckily, help was on hand in the form of her farm dog, rough collie Tully.
‘As I stood there trying to work out what to do next, Tully climbed up the bank and, with-out any instruction, began to pull each sheep free of the brambles,’ she recalls. ‘He did it for hours, calmly taking the lead in the situation. Tully has always been able to figure anything out—there have been so many times that he has saved the day.’
‘He’s a fantastic farm dog. He would work all day, every day if he could’
