🐑⚾️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.
🌟💛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.
💣💥 we are back at it with a bang, having been away last week working a local event 💥💣.
In this video you can see the lovely Lynn, whom We’ve been schooling on her outruns this morning to make sure she’s covering her sheep correctly by hitting her 12o’clock balance point and then dropping into that nice steady follow.
✨10 mins of training with my own pup this morning✨
I’ve just gently started applying pressure using my body language to get some direction changes and keep him steady enough to balance the sheep to me, the rest is all him ☺️
🌟🤩 my star of the week goes to this lovely young dog, I like him very much 🌟🤩 He’s abit of a later bloomer, having first been classed as a failed pet. As you can see his rocky start to life hasn’t held him back, he has a bright future ahead of him as a working sheepdog!
✨A quick training exercise, mostly for the pups benefit but it doesn’t help to remind the girls of their manners either 😅 No treats or tip bits used here, their reward is having my praise and approval. Young Griff has been an absolute dream to work with up until now, long may it continue 🤞🏻
🏁Another great training session for a more experienced dog, just sharpening up the finer details 🏁
✅Blind outrun
✅Look for your sheep
✅ using her own initiative
✅getting sheep out a corner/off a fence line ✅keeping it steady and controlled.
🔥coming in hot🔥
🔥coming in hot🔥
Teaching this beautiful boy to do some nice and steady turns and follows.
🌺one of my favourite success stories🌺
Peg has come such a long way from the day I first met her, super proud of the journey she’s been on!
😜proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks😜
Eric had to retire from agility and his owner wanted to find another activity to keep him mentally and physically active! To say this was his first ever sheepdog lesson, he did so well!
💦making a splash!💦
Here is the lovely Flynn having his 3rd lesson with us. As a trainer I try my hardest to train each individual dog to their own needs and home environment. Flynn is a big, handsome dog and the sheep really feel his wolf like presence as soon as they set eyes on each other. His job will be to help care for flighty sheep on a conservation grazing project… so not at all an easy task. with this knowledge in mind we’ve been working on keeping him off his sheep and getting the stop and steady at distance, resulting in keeping the training sessions calm and under control.
💎Steadiness around livestock training💎
💎steadiness around livestock💎
What a treat to be joined by the lovely Margo and her owner this morning, what a fantastic example of her breed. Thank you for making a special trip down from Yorkshire to come and train with us.
