Handler Profile - Meirion Owen and the Quack Pack

Country: Wales

My Dogs

Meirion is a very accomplished and well-respected sheepdog handler, judge and event organiser.

His Quack Pack provides hilariously entertaining duck herding demonstrations for the general public and corporate clients. The Quack Pack team of Border Collies and comical Indian Runner ducks provide entertaining, educational and interactive displays at local, regional and national shows, as well as private events.

Achievements

It’s not all about ducks though…

Since his boyhood start Meirion has gone on to win many trials including the Welsh National Sheepdog Championship and has also captained the Welsh team at the International Sheep Dog Trials.

He is a life member of the International Sheep Dog Society and past Welsh President of the Society.

Judging assignments have taken Meirion all over the globe and in 2002 he was honoured to be invited to judge the very first World (Sheep Dog) Trials in Bala, North Wales.

More recently he headed the organising committee for the very successful 2008 World Trials held in Llandeilo, South Wales.

Meirion appears regularly on TV and has been on three series of the very popular BBC programme 'One Man and His Dog.'

The Quack Pack is available for shows, festivals and fairs, as well as private functions so please contact Meirion by telephone or email

Biography

How it all started….

A farmer born and bred, Meirion has been around Border Collies all his life.  He started sheepdog trialling at the age of nine and is the third generation of his family to be involved in the art of training, competing and demonstrating with his Border Collies all over the country.

Duck herding!

Meirion's duck herding demonstrations are designed to showcase the amazing talents of Border Collies and the communication between handler and dog.

He provides his own humorous commentary as he uses a combination of commands to guide his dogs and cooperative (and sometimes uncooperative) Indian Runner ducks around a course that includes tunnels, slides and pens.