Driving (2 of 3)

Use your body position to help control the dog while you teach it to drive.

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Mastering the art of driving livestock away is a huge milestone in your dog’s training, but it challenges your dog’s instinct and  previous training to bring the sheep to you.  Happily, you have a powerful tool immediately to hand – your body position. You can use your body position to help guide your dog to drive sheep or cattle because the point of balance is exactly the same, whether the dog’s gathering or driving. 

It’s important to understand, and be able to visualise, what’s happening – or likely to happen – before you start. We use animations to demonstrate the point of balance, and how body position will influence the dog in a variety of situations.

Use body position thoughtfully – being in the wrong position is as influential as the right position!

How can the dog can be trained to flank away from the point of balance? Watch ‘Sending The Dog The Wrong Way’.

See Driving 1 and 3 for more.

Use your body position to reinforce control of the dog

PART 2. In this video you will learn how to use your body position to help maintain control over the dog while it learns to drive stock.

In the early stages of training you controlled the direction that the dog flanked around the sheep using body position and point of balance. Body position and point of balance are also crucial for controlling direction when teaching the drive.

In this tutorial Andy demonstrates that putting himself in the right place, at the right time, can make a huge difference to the behaviour of the dog – and you can do it too!

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