Tag: Starting
Learn your training commands thoroughly
Using muddled commands is bad practice, and not fair on a herding dog. Learn your training commands properly! Muddled commands confuse the dog Attempting to train a sheep or cattle dog when you’re not fully conversant with the commands can cause serious problems. It’s completely unfair on the dog because you’ll be blaming it for…
Starting a non-starter (2 of 2)
Ways to spark the dog’s interest in working sheep if it doesn’t want to! Find the reason, then apply the remedy Part 2: If your dog doesn’t seem to want to work sheep or cattle, it’s quite likely it does want to really, but for some reason the dog thinks it shouldn’t. It might be…
Start training a young puppy on sheep (2 of 2)
Further training for puppy Ezra on sheep, out in the open field. Further training for puppy Ezra on sheep In part 2, we take young Ezra to the sheep again, but this time, give him a little more guidance and lots of encouragement. We also see signs of Ezra’s confidence growing and learn that nine…
Starting a non-starter (1 of 2)
Starting a non-starter, or motivating a dog which won’t work livestock. Trigger that instinct, so the dog will works for you It can be very disappointing to find that your dog doesn’t seem to want to work sheep or cattle, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t be able to change its mind. As with…
Starting a reluctant dog
What to do when starting a reluctant dog, which doesn’t want to work. There’s always the exception… Most dogs are over-excited when they first encounter sheep and it’s up to the trainer to do their best to protect the stock. Occasionally though the dog takes no interest in the stock at all and doesn’t want…
Top tips for easier sheepdog training
Sheepdog training tips and advice to make teaching your farm dog to herd sheep, a lot easier! Who said it was easy! Nobody would claim that sheepdog training a dog to work sheep or other livestock is an easy matter. But by understanding what is going on and why, and by paying attention to just…
Training Max – the gripper (1 of 3)
A gripper (a dog attacking biting and gripping sheep) must be quickly brought under control for the welfare of the stock. Find out how we correct Max’s bad ways. Not for the faint-hearted PART 1: This tutorial deals with one of the most difficult aspects of sheepdog training, how to cope with a very strong-willed…
Bronwen and Scylla (1 of 9)
Follow the progress of two litter sisters – Bronwen and Scylla – as they learn to become sheepdogs. They might have the same parents, but their temperaments are very different and the same goes for their attitude to working sheep.
Get (the sheep) off the fence!
Train your dog to get sheep off a fence or hedge. Strictly collie dancing… Getting stubborn sheep away from a fence or hedge during the early stages of training can be very frustrating unless you know the “tricks of the trade”. This tutorial shows you how to get sheep off a fence or hedge, as…