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doganjo

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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2010, 08:13:35 pm »
Start by training to the whistle - if they already sit, then introduce a single beep so they sit on command, if not, train for the instant sit.  If they already recall instantly to name, then introduce 3 beeps - if they are not instant then train for that first, then take the whistle in. Then introduce a turn whistle - 2 beeps.  Have the dog on a line, run to the right, whistle 2 beeps, when the dogs runs past you, turn and run in the opposite direction and blow 2 beeps again, and do this over and over till you get to the end of the field - it's fun!  ;)  Then teach them left and right on verbal commands.  Use some of their food - they will follow your arm movement - make it obvious!  

What that will then mean is that they will run out to whatever direction you say - right or left, away or come bye - go or stop - use any words you like but be consistent.  They will stop when you tell them to.  Then you can tell them to go right or left, then you can recall them - complete with a couple of hundred sheep or 4 ;D  Whether the sheep will do as they are told is a different matter ::)
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doganjo

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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2010, 08:15:18 pm »
Get a chocolate labrador to do anything useful?  That'll be a first.
That is colour prejudice  ;)  They are bred exactly the same way as their littermates who are black or yellow.  It's a fallacy that they can't be trained.  Sandy's choccy (Rhum) is the best one of hers!
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

buddy

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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #17 on: September 18, 2010, 09:46:21 pm »
your sheep has been watching the movie, when sheep go baad! Watched some of it last year, gave up and went to do the ironing, kids found it amusing. As for chocolate labs, they are known for being more highly strung than the black  and yellow. We have had black and currently have a six year old chocolate bitch. She is absolutely cracking, smart and intelligent, but it took her a lot longer to learn. If you go to a country show you will often see fat chocolate labs that do not walk to heel...
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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2010, 09:08:38 am »
We socialise puppies for Hearing Dogs who seem to have tried every breed and cross on the planet. Not all train successfully but the chocolate lab was the only one that didn't want to co-operate. The Welsh section D of the dog world.

Of the ones who didn't succeed as assistance dogs the hunterway cross kelpie was the one we regret not keeping. He was wonderfully friendly, really fast learning but too exuberant for the job. Would have been a smashing sheep dog.

Anke

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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2010, 08:11:36 pm »
Hi, Caroline, just read the post - well I have never had anything like that with the Bowmonts. My foxterrier would put her nose through the gate and sniff their noses (only some of the sheep, incl the Bowmonts will come and check her out), but she was (is) never loose (or even on the lead) actually in the field (too many "interesting smelly" things to eat!)

But my sheep have never been herded by a dog, just my children + bucket. I think that means they have no idea what a dog is ????? Hope dog/sheep are ok.

V funny though!


Anke

ellisr

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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2010, 07:22:16 pm »
My sheep has fear of dogs now he has just been bit on the nose and now has a very nasty puncture wound.

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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2010, 08:14:26 pm »
my Irish setter got surrounded by our three ewe lambs this afternoon and was terrified bless him, he bolted for safety as soon as he found a gap. The sheep promptly chased after him... don't think I will be entering him for any sheep herding trials just yet  ;D

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Re: Sheep bites dog!!!
« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2010, 08:21:14 pm »
 :D :D :D ;D ;D
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