Claygates Sheepdogs

26/05/2025

📸 A snap shot from today’s training session with the rather handsome Sid, a kelpie x collie 📸

23/05/2025

🤗 Lovely feed back this morning, it’s always good to hear what we’ve been working on at my venue is being successfully put into practice at home 🤗

13/05/2025

🥳It’s good to be back🥳
what a fantastic first few weeks we’ve had, from young dogs having their first introductions to trained dogs having a sharpen up and everything else in between!
If anyone is still wanting to get booked in my diary is open 👍🏻📚

09/05/2025

🥰 Last night our dogs and sheep went along to meet the Cheveley brownies and guides to teach them all about the skills of working sheedogs! Thank you for having us, the dogs loved all the attention 🥰

28/04/2025

👀🏡 I’ve been made aware of a young part trained male in east Anglia 👀🏡

He’s out of two good working parents on a large scale sheep farm, has been nicely started on training sheep. Brought up around children and other dogs, obedient and jumps in the truck. No fault of his own, just isn’t get enough time spent on him and needs finishing off. I can pass on contact details for any genuine enquiries 👍🏻

22/04/2025

📚📖 My Diary is open
get yourselves booked in 📖📚

Thank you for your continued patience, with the lambing season drawing to a steady close I can now once again offer my normal Monday and Tuesday slots with some weekend availability. Starting from Monday the 5th of May at the usual venue. Looking forward to hearing from you all and getting back to it 🐏🐕

09/04/2025

✨Update✨
Thanks everyone for your patience, my diary will be opening up again soon to get you all booked in for May📖! Two out of the three flocks I’ve been looking after have now finished lambing, so the end is in sight 🐑😊

25/03/2025

Contact Gipping Valley Sheepdogs

Dogs and bi***es 👀

21/01/2025

🐑⚾️sharing because it made me smile⚾️🐑

not every dog we work with has access to their own sheep at home. Luckily for peg, her owner gets creative to keep her mind occupied with the added bonus of listening to commands.

13/01/2025

🦴Some lovely feedback, nice to meet you all, and thank you for sharing 🦴

Lovely trip to the Cambridge/Suffolk border to meet Caitlin from Claygates Sheepdogs, lovely set up, both dogs enjoyed it and slept all the way home after working on driving with Ollie and Sidney being cheeky with the sheep. Trying to stop him pushing them over us in a sneaky dive.

Thank you.

11/01/2025

‼️Lambing‼️

Just a reminder to my customers that when I’m not helping you train your dogs I’m employed as a shepherdess. This means during the months of March and April I take a pause from the dog training to Lamb two different flocks of ewes. I apologise for the inconvenience in advance, but I will resume the dog training again in early May. Many thanks, Caitlin.

27/12/2024

🌟💛Recently I had an amazing opportunity to step back and watch Meg Hutchinson from Littledale Sheepdogs work my young pup for me🌟💛

If you ever get the opportunity to learn from an experienced dog handler then grab it with both hands. You’ll never know it all when it comes to training your dog and when you think you’re getting close, the next dog will come along and change it all again. So always be open to guidance and encouragement to keep bettering yourself as an owner of a working dog.

In this video you can see Meg has first watched this young dog and seen how steady and polite he is, always hitting his natural balance point. With that in mind She’s now deliberately throwing him off this balance point by asking him to take his opposite sides and by doing this encouraging him to be more fluid and pick up his pace to work through all those gears, not just stay in first and second gear. Only correcting him when he gets over excited and comes in too close! This isn’t something I had done with him yet so I’m really grateful for Meg’s time and advice in showing me what she would be doing with him and I can now continue do this training technique at home.