The popular Golden Gardens Park in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood offers extraordinary views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. Visitors can take scenic strolls along a rugged coastline, hikes on forest trails. It's one of Seattle's nine designated off-leash areas for dogs, a great place for dogs to run free and meet new friends, and maybe work on a little obedience training.

Do you have a dog that just won't obey you? Maybe you should send him to herd sheep at place in Roy, Wash., appropriately named Ewe-topia.

Linda Leeman and Joe Kapelos' farm might be just what the doctor ordered for dogs who doesn't listen to orders. Five nights a week, ordinary people and their ordinary pooches line up for obedience training, sheep style. If you can make a dog stop running after sheep, you can pretty much make him come off of anything like the sofa, or the mailman. Any dog of any breed, mix or age is welcome Ewe-topia.

After that we see how the budding herders get trained, we head over to Decatur Island in the San Juans. It isn't Scotland but for one weekend it could be.

Nearly 20 years ago, the first time shepherds Nick Stagg and Cliff Steelman came to Decatur Island, they had to corral sheep that were sick, smelly and so wild that the sight of dogs sent them into a panic. Time has helped tame the sheep but the annual roundup is still a test of strategy and endurance.

The island is just a day trip from Seattle but it seems half a world and a full century away. The sheep round-up is once a year in the fall, and is open to the public.

Next, what government worker helps keep you and me safe and expects nothing more than a rolled-up towel in return? Meet some members of the U.S. Customs canine teams.

Last year alone, they detected hundreds of tons of illegal narcotics, worth several billion dollars on the street. Since 1970, the U.S. Customs Service has been using specially trained dogs, usually rescued from animal shelters, to detect drugs.

Then, disabled students in the life skills class at Columbia River High School in Vancouver, Wash., go bowling with a service dog named Jaffie. Some of the students are in wheelchairs so Jaffie helps them bowl, but the students also like to bowl against her.

Jaffie always draws a big crowd. People are always curious about her so they're not seeing the disabilities of the students so much. She has really increased their self-esteem.

Finally, ever meet a dog that knows how to count? Sherlock the dachshund is well on his way, but that’s just half the story. Owners Inge and Jim Chevrier have taught him 24 tricks and stage shows at 17 different facilities for seniors. Numbers are Sherlock's best trick, and the seniors always get a big kick out of him.