... but only when told to, fortunately! I made these today at the Laeken Fun Day. 3 Laekenois males who show that the roughcoated variety of Belgian Shepherds is willing to do some manwork:
Trouble Ofinka, this male already has his IPO-1 and IPO-2 certificate.
Trouble Ofinka again
Nozem's fiancé, Quint Var Letsager
Quint ready to attack the decoy
Quint again
Quint Var Letsager
Quint
Quint
Quint
And the last one of Quint. He is in training for IPO-1 and this was the first time he was on a strange field with a strange decoy. I think he did a great job!
And that LongFields Laekenois are able to do bitework as well, is proved by Arkan, who has just started doing manwork and didn't really know what to do at first. Thanks to the hard work of his owner Brigitte, he seems to get the hang of it now: