Working N's so abit short on training time....
Sting decided her lesson would be 'sends' as in waiting until she is sent.
She was more than happy to be headed to the sheep pasture and did wait (off leash ) as I walked through the gate first and then let me repark her to send on a flank. However that was short lived and she was on her way to gather her sheep as 'they' were getting out of dodge.
A dog is typically 'right' to cover their stock... it's so instinctive to want to stop motion...so I try not to make a big deal of it with a green dog and work on waiting / sending, a few short fetchs across the short end of the small sheep pasture...and some 'that will do's' / and walk away from the sheep with my dog and reset up in another spot.
She learns she gets the sheep on my terms and is rewarded for that by allowing her to work.
I can see a more confident dog as we journey along here.
Quade's time was spent pushing the sheep off the grain bunk and doing some short driving down the length of the pasture, one of his 'favorite jobs'...
Today was a decent fall day for weather...think last year we had snow that stayed...geese still hanging out by the lake
Sting decided her lesson would be 'sends' as in waiting until she is sent.
She was more than happy to be headed to the sheep pasture and did wait (off leash ) as I walked through the gate first and then let me repark her to send on a flank. However that was short lived and she was on her way to gather her sheep as 'they' were getting out of dodge.
A dog is typically 'right' to cover their stock... it's so instinctive to want to stop motion...so I try not to make a big deal of it with a green dog and work on waiting / sending, a few short fetchs across the short end of the small sheep pasture...and some 'that will do's' / and walk away from the sheep with my dog and reset up in another spot.
She learns she gets the sheep on my terms and is rewarded for that by allowing her to work.
I can see a more confident dog as we journey along here.
Quade's time was spent pushing the sheep off the grain bunk and doing some short driving down the length of the pasture, one of his 'favorite jobs'...
Today was a decent fall day for weather...think last year we had snow that stayed...geese still hanging out by the lake
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