Julie Hill
Achievements
The picture on the right is Julie with her International Supreme champion dog "Moss"
Originally Julie was based in East Anglia, where her shepherding days started and the passion for the sheepdog took her on a path of understanding the language of the dog.
Her move to Scotland took Julie and her dogs to some of the remotest hill ground, where sheep survival was taken to the limit. This bought about a whole new world of understanding the working dog and the limits of endurance you can, and have to take a dog to as to cope with everyday shepherding tasks. Julie is in the process of writing a new book about her and her dogs struggles for survival by learning and living the life of a hill shepherd, single handed, tended 1000 sheep on 8000 acres of rugged hill.
The picture on the right is where Julie shepherded with her dogs in the Highlands of Scotland.
She already has written a book "The Natural Way" that takes the reader through easy steps for training the working dog, referring to the language of the dog and the feel that is needed to understand what your dog is trying to tell you through body language, and how through body language you can communicate to your dog using his language.
Julie represented Scotland for the first time at International level in 1989 with Gwen.
She won the qualifier at the International and ended up 8th overall.
In 1990 Gwen and Julie became runner-up in the One Man and his dog
competition.
In 1991 Julie and Gwen won the Scottish National Championship and in the same year she won the Scottish National Brace Championship with Bess and
Nell
In 1992 Bess and Nell handled by Julie won the Scottish National Brace Championship, and they became the runner-up at the International. The same year Gwen won Champion of Champions competition.
In 1993 Julie became the first woman to win the Grampian TV series with Gwen.
In 1996 Julie and Moss won the Scottish National Driving Championship. Julie made history when she became the first woman to win the Supreme International Championship . To this day she remains the only woman to have won the title since its inception in 1906.
In 2002 Julie once again represented Scotland at the International with Tess and came 7th at the World trial.
In 2005 Julie with Tess and Fly won the Scottish National Brace Championship.
In 2006 Tess with Julie became runner-up at the Scottish National and ended up in the runner-up position at the International Supreme Sheepdog Trials.
Below are some of her main dogs.
Gwen Nell & Bess Fly
And Today.............
Tess (9yrs old, semi-retired living at Carcant Farm)
Runner-Up Scottish National Championship 2006
Runner-Up Supreme International Championship 2006
With the work and success Julie has accomplished with her dogs, she has been invited to share her knowledge worldwide, judging and teaching the art of sheepdog handling.
Teaching others "the language of the dog"
www.henderson-hill-bordercollies.co.uk