Category: Sheepdog training tips and advice

Teach your dog to herd stock with help from our sheepdog training tips and advice category

Read our collection of entertaining and useful blog posts. They will give you a better insight into herding and cattle dog training. For example, if you’re wondering whether to work on flanks, stopping your dog, or the dog’s working distance from sheep or cattle, we think an exercise we call “Backwards is the Way Forwards” will be a great help! It teaches them all at once! To do it properly though, you must have basic control of the dog around stock.

Our sheepdog training tips and advice blogs will inspire the creative sheepdog trainer that’s within you. Teach your dog to herd stock!

  • Barking mad – a lesson in dog training

    Barking mad – a lesson in dog training

    Alfie’s Blog – A lesson in dog training I was thinking about dog training – on Saturday night, actually. Gill has long believed that the best thing to do about bad behaviour is to make it unrewarding, usually by simply ignoring it. This works well in the case of a first offence, especially with puppies that are really only craving attention. (This only applies to… Read more.