Tag: Pace (Slowing)
Stopping the dog (1 of 3)
How to train your herding sheepdog to stop on command, without damaging the dog’s confidence. How to get your sheepdog to stop! These three extensively revised ‘stopping the dog’ videos deal with the common problem of how to get your dog to stop, and at the same time, avoid damaging the dog’s confidence. They go…
How to slow a sheepdog down
How to slow a sheepdog down. Ways to calm your trainee herding dog, and make it work more steadily. Slow that sheepdog down! How to slow a sheepdog down and get it to work more steadily is a frequent sheep dog training question. There’s no “quick fix” for getting a keen dog to work at…
Back to forwards
Improve control of your working sheepdog once you and the dog have mastered “Backwards is the Way Forward”. A matter of trust Walking backwards, with the dog steadily bringing the sheep up to you at the pace you choose to move back at, is one of the best exercises we know. It’s a particularly useful…
Tess in the open field
Teaching a young dog outruns and flanks in the open field for the first time Teaching a young dog outruns and flanks As well as learning specific sheepdog training topics, we like to show you complete training sessions. This helps keep the topics in context and gives the viewer a better understanding of the dog’s…
Backwards is the way forward
Our best sheepdog training exercise, once you have control of your farm dog, and the dog has basic control of the sheep or cattle. Our best sheepdog training exercise It’s boring – and it might appear pointless to the novice, but walking backwards with the dog bringing the sheep up to you, is our best…