Our ACDs have a heck of a job, and they love every minute of it. We are the Shepperson
family; we run a commercial herd of 2500 head of Angus cattle on over 150,000 acres
(and growing!) of WY rangeland near the Southern Big Horn Mountains.
Our family has been ranching for over 100 years, and we have always relied on loyal and
hardworking ACDs to help us get the job done. The country here is rough and rugged,
with deep draws, steep canyons and rocky sagebrush slopes. Butch Cassidy and his
Outlaw Gang escaped from lawmen in their famous Hole-in-the-Wall hideout just a few
miles from our headquarters. Here, we do most of our cow work the old-fashioned way,
on the back of a good horse with the help of great dogs. We depend on our dogs for
working cattle year round, all seasons, all conditions, over thousands of acres of range-
land. They are our trusted partners and friends. They all have their own personalities
and quirks, but their love and devotion to our family and work is their common thread.

Here on the KS Ranch, we could not have the sizable herd we do without the help of our
dogs. We have both AKC registered and Ranch-bloodline dogs, all wagging their tails
each morning, ready to see what work needs to be done that day. Each season brings
about different work: in the Spring, its sorting the first-calf heifers from the mature cow
herd and trailing them into the corral to calve, pairing up a lost calf with a mother that
misplaced him and later gathering 400 cow/calf pairs at a time for branding, not only
for us, but all the neighboring ranches too.

Summer brings many long days of trailing herds of 300-500 up to summer mountain
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SPOTLIGHT on Dogs with Jobs
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