The Herding Kind - Herding Breed Specialist Dog Training and Behaviour

23/07/2024

We are all covering herding breeds over at The Wild Way- Holistic Animal Behaviour & Health Practitioner

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20/02/2023

All new treat boxes live!

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24/12/2022

07/12/2022

Met the GORGEOUS Duke yesterday 🥰🐾

23/11/2022

It's nearly Christmas time, which means pet shop shelves will soon be lined with treats like this. These products are made from rawhide, but how many of us actully know what's in these and how they are made?

Rawhide is actually a by product of leather, usually from horse or cow skin. The skin is Bleached to turn it white, and stop it from decaying. Sometimes this doesn't work and stronger chemicals are used. Arsenic, Mercury and known carcinogens have been found in these treats.

The next stage involves creating the colours and shapes that attract so many of us. Glue is used to stick the hide together to form a nice shape and harmful paints are used to colour it, including red 40 which is a known carcinogen.

" the Material Safety Data Sheet reveals a toxic confection containing the carcinogen FD&C Red 40, along with preservatives like sodium benzoate. But tracking the effects of chemical exposure is nearly impossible when it’s a matter of slow, low-dose poisoning.”– thebark.com

Animal skin would only last a few days before it rots, but this "rawhide" lasts forever. This is because after all that it is then doused in even more chemicals that act as preservatives to stop it rotting.

If that wasn't enough, have you even read the small print warning in the back of these? -

" if large chunks of rawhide are bitten off they may dwell in the dogs stomach and cause blockages, blockages require immediate abdominal surgery and if left or go unnoticed will cause death "

Your dog can easily choke because these treats are so chewy and dogs will often swallow chunks that are too large. When raw hide is wet it gets so slippy that you have little chance of being able to grip it and remove it from a choking dogs throat.

Rather than picking up rawhide, natural dried hide is available from many places including Purple Pup local to us, and lots of lovely, long lasting natural and chemical free alternatives.

18/10/2022

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14/10/2022

HAPPY FRI-YAY!

❗️FLASH SALE ALERT❗️

All our training packages and sessions are now 50% off til the end of the day.

Have you been looking at getting booked in with us but haven't been able to afford it?

Well today is the day!

Our individual training sessions are now just £32.50 instead of £65.

So what is included in the session?

🐾2 hours assessment
🐾 training skills to help change you and your dogs life
🐾 training plan
🐾 continued dog trainer support
🐾 communication between dog and owner!

The only condition is that all training must be paid for by midnight tonight before prices return to normal.

Contact us to book;
www theherdingkind.co.uk
[email protected]
07576188708

07/10/2022

SORTED - thank you for all that made contact 😁

‼️Edit: WOW so many beautiful border collies out there. We are now only looking for a black and white border collie. If I have missed any WhatsApp messages please comment below and let me know.

🎥 ⭐️ Casting Call ⭐️ 🎥

My agent is looking for a young border collie for a shoot in London the first week of November.

Please message me if you have a dog you think is suitable. The dog MUST be reliable off lead and happy to work for other people.

03/10/2022

Join us for our VIRTUAL four-part course helping you create the ultimate happy herder!

Helping create the perfect relationship/communication between herder and handler.

This course will start you and your herder on the journey to living in harmony with eachother, creating communication, relationship building and understanding.

The Herding Kind will show you how to;
Build focus and engagement
Create a calm and relaxed herder by building an off switch

Impluse control
Discovering play and how to use different reinforcers to create a dog wanting to work with you!
Learn skills, managment and techniques for car, bike and other innaporiate herding behaviours
Building on the basics like loose lead walking and recall
Discussing diet and whats best for our dogs!
Exploring enrichment - how to work with the herder in front of you
Handling and the best equitment to use for our dogs
Discovering sports and games which can change our herders life!
Learning training to help our reactive or fearful dogs and discuss how to build confidence.
Understanding genetics- what makes our herding breeds, well so herdy?
So much more..

The course will run from Wed, 19 Oct '22 7:30pm – 9pm for 4 weeks.

To book please go to https://bookwhen.com/theherdingkind =ev-sqge-20221019193000

28/09/2022

Does your collie have different eyes?

My beautiful coco has one more pale golden and one more bright orange. How unique 😍

19/09/2022

19/09/2022

Had the absolute pleasure in meeting Bella today the 10 month old collie 😍 she's so pretty!

13/09/2022

12/09/2022

What treats do your dogs eat daily?

Its very important when looking at feeding our dogs treats we keep an eye on nutrionial value, fat content and quanity our dogs eat.

My dogs have a few selected treats per day, usally a natural chew to keep them busy throughout the working day. These are lamb muscle pieces, deer skins, fish skins, duck feet, cow hooves and trancheas.

For training I usally make liver cake with chickpea flour, 100% pure protein pate and occasionally cheese and plain chicken.

However although regularly recieving treats we keep track of body compoistion to do this. I make sure there is a rotation of proteins, consistency and flavour aswell as the other added benefits!

DID YOU KNOW!?

Rabbit ears, hairy cow ears and pelts work as a natural de wormer?

Cow hooves, bones and horns are natural teeth cleaners?

Below are just a few benefits to feeding your dogs natural treats over highly processed treats that can cause determential effects to our dogs health.

STRONGER IMMUNITY
HEALTHY PROTEINS
EXCELLENT FOR DOGS COAT - SHINIER, LESS ITCHING AND OVER SHEDDING DUE TO NATURAL ESSENTIAL OILS
EASY ON THE STOMACH
HAIRY ITEMS ACT AS NATURAL WORMING AIDS FOR DOGS, SUCH AS HAIRY RABBIT EARS, LAMB EARS, COW EARS AND HAIRY ROE DEER LEGS
IMPROVED DENTAL HEALTH
WEIGHT MANAGEMENT - NATURALLY LOWER IN CALORIES
IMPROVED PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
GREAT FOR DOGS WITH ALLERGIES

Choose NATURAL today to improve overall health, wellbeing, longevity and happiness!

11/09/2022

What a commemorative month for the border collie.

Thank you Auld h**p for siring the border collie we know about love today 🐾

08/09/2022

Today I met the most beautiful Kenji and his lovely cat siblings 😍😍😍😍

Hes so handsome 🐾❤️

05/09/2022

Today I met the handsome Enzo who's a definite herder!

Enzo has to go back to basics with learning how to switch off and learn that movement is okay!

Enzo is also going back on the long line for a few weeks to relearn his boundaries and fun recall / focus games.

🐾

03/09/2022

02/09/2022

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