This photo shows Zach circling the stock clockwise (come bye). My goal at this stage is to help him learn to keep his stock together, to stay out at a distance and respect my space.  By keeping the rake and my body positioned so as to put pressure right behind his front legs (his heart!), I am helping him get out and around. If I were to move forward on the trajectory I would stop him or turn him the other way. Were I to get "in" of him on the trajectory, I would force him into the stock and probably cause a wreck or a grip.

Zach is now circling on the "away to me" side (counter clockwise)

Here Zach and I are beginning the process of converting a circle into a fetch (bringing the stock to me). As Zach gets to the back of the stock, I'll ask him to move them with me as I walk forward but only a few steps to begin with. Then I will walk back through the stock and ask him to go the other way (always encouraging his first step to be away from the stock). I owe this technique to Bekka Borg who brought it back from a clinic she did with Becky Bailie. My interpretation of it is, however, my own and neither Bekka nor Becky are responsible.

I have moved to the fence and Zach is learning that he can keep the stock "to me" on the fence. I'm showing Zach that the fence and the stock are "my" space and not to be encroached upon! As soon as Zach 'gives' a little (slows down, acknowledges my presence, etc), I let him have the stock by moving smoothly away on a circle away from the fence, thus giving Zach a "hole"; to come through on and move the stock off the fence.

We ended this particular session by me catching Zach up (actually did this several times and restarted several times). Then, I put the leash back on so that I could help and Zach and I moved (actually sort of beginning driving!) the stock back out of the round pen and into a holding pen.