Top Tips for Sheepdog Training (Part 3) Are You a Suitable Trainer?

When people take on a young dog or a sheepdog puppy, intending to train it to work livestock, they sometimes think a lot about the right dog, but rarely consider whether they themselves, are fit or strong willed enough, for the task. We give you some pointers to consider before you commit yourself to a new dog.
This is the third of our free Sheepdog Training tutorials about teaching your Border Collie, Kelpie or other sheepdog to herd farm livestock including sheep, cattle, goats and poultry.
These clips are shortened versions of the Sheepdog Training Tutorials on the Working Sheepdog Website.
We'll be posting plenty more in the future, so be sure to subscribe and you'll be informed when they are published.
Watch a preview of our online sheepdog training tutorials:
workingsheepdog.co.uk/tv/
Our first series (of eight videos) is called Top Tips for Sheepdog Training and covers some essential basics of sheep and cattle dog training that you may not have thought of.
Some of the videos here, include references to the full online versions, that cover the topics in much greater depth, and you'll find links to more information below each video.
We've been producing sheepdog training videos since two thousand and nine.
You might know our DVD, First Steps In Border Collie Sheepdog Training - or the Sheepdog Training Tutorials on the Working Sheepdog Website.
TOP TIPS FOR EASIER SHEEPDOG TRAINING!
Part ONE - Remember the dog's hunting
Part TWO - Training a herding dog is completely different
Part THREE - Are you a suitable trainer?
Part FOUR - Is your dog a "gathering" breed?
Part FIVE - Are your sheep suitable?
Part SIX - Is your training area suitable?
Part SEVEN - Build your dog's confidence
Part EIGHT - Learn your commands

[@maxk4324]

I'll be honest, I live in a city and have no plans of owning or working on a farm at any point in the future, but your videos are incredibly interesting, well articulated, well presented, and informative. I've always wondered how sheep dogs are trained to perform what to me always looked like fairly cognitively complex tasks so I find this fascinating. Thank you.

[@andynick01]

Thank you!

[@grammaticopedanticus9727]

@Max K, awww, them sheep dogs don’t do nothing a bright second-grader couldn’t learn 😀 ,

[@williambell4305]

Very good thanks

[@luvansheepdogs2400]

So True!

[@eliasp.m4618]

I love these videos! they are really nice and interesting, I would like to own a farm in the future with sheep and learn how to trained sheepdogs. Thank you!