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Dog handler focus: Cathy Cassie - "I am a shepherd before I am a trial trainer"

Cumbria based, Cathy Cassie, is a contact shepherd, and has not let being born without connections to agriculture limit her drive.

Ellie Layton
Livestock Specialist
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Dog handler focus: Cathy Cassie - "I am a shepherd before I am a trial trainer"

Background: Female, townie and Southerner; not the usual starting point for a professional shepherd, and back in the 1980s it proved quite a challenge. I was born in Harlow, Essex, to non-farming parents...

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