Ty Taylor Books

Stockdog Savvy contains everything you ever wanted to know about stock dog training, working a herding dog, trials andd trialing, herding dog breeds, and even livestock handling. Learn how to select, care for and train a stockdog from puppyhood to finished working dog. Teach your dog to work cattle, sheep, goats, fowl or exotic livestock. Choose the right breed of dog for your livestock. With clear instructions with lots of photos, Jeanne Joy and Ty will help you successfully train your dog to be a trial dog, work exotic livestock or handle livestock on the open range. Interested in competing? With Stockdog Savvy, you’ll be ready for the trial pen. Includes profiles of more than 60 herding dog breeds. Complete coverage of all types of stock work, profiles of key herding personalities, training lessons for working sheep, cattle, goats, ducks and exotic livestock, boundary training, and more, with problem solving tips in every training chapter.

The book introduces an innovative technique for compressing cartoon images, leveraging distinct color regions through a spatially-based algorithm. It combines Binary Run-Length Encoding with Huffman Encoding for efficient storage. This lossy compression method eliminates artifacts and antialiasing, while a post-decoding edge-restricted blur filter smooths edges. Additionally, it details algorithms for gradient detection and their applications, achieving significant file size reductions—averaging 13.75 times smaller than PNGs and 7.45 times smaller than JPEGs, with an impressive bit per pixel ratio.