We take two eleven week old puppies to sheep for the first time.
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Part 1. The usual age for starting a pup on sheep is between six and twelve months, but if you have the right sort of sheep and know what you're doing, you can start a pup at a much younger age. Starting a dog early makes it much easier to get the youngster under control in the presence of sheep. In "Starting a Young Puppy" Andy shows what to do and what to avoid when he takes litter-mates Ezra and Carew to the sheep - at just eleven weeks old.
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 sheep is too many for this early stage of a dog's training.
Hi Andy
I have a 6 month old bitch. She is very keen iv been doing a lot of yard work, lie down come to me etc this is going well.
As expected all this traing went out the window when intoduced to sheep but she seems to have a natural stop which helps but not on command is this OK I do give her the lie down when she does it? Sorry I have another problem that started recently, chasing cars, postman,tractors ect .worried. help x
First, the car-chasing! We have an article on this. I strongly recommend you study it (it works).
Otherwise, your dog sounds perfectly normal, but think about what you are doing. If you wait until the dog stops and then give the command, who’s in charge here? The dog!
You must make the dog stop when it suits you – not when it suits the dog. That goes for all aspects of training.
Please be sure to watch all of the early training tutorials in the order they are listed on the Welcome and Library pages. That way, you will get a much better idea of what’s going to happen, and how to cope with it.
Hi Andy
Thank you very much for your reply and would like you to know how much I’m enjoying the tutorials. I am trying to find the one you mentioned I should watch on car chasing but can’t seem to find it in the list? Could you point me inthe right direction. Thank you Mary
Mary, I added the link twice in the first sentence of my reply!