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Guest Tess32

Nice link.

It says on there that you shouldn't do herding unless you can devote yourself to weekly lessons?!?!

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Just thought...another option is to all meet at Daylesford ??? kinda halfway. 

Pippi, that sounds much more possible! And so great if I can follow someone. I'm terrible with directions and maps. Blindfold me and drop me a couple of blocks from where I live and no one would ever see me again! :rofl: But I've been through Daylesford on the way to trials, so I know how to get there.

How exciting!

Here's Fox at his first (and only) workshop;

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Pippi, that sounds much more possible! And so great if I can follow someone. I'm terrible with directions and maps.

Sounds good Hopenfox. I'll be in touch as soon as I know when the next weekend will be. :rofl: Love your pics.. ;)

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It says on there that you shouldn't do herding unless you can devote yourself to weekly lessons?!?!

...that's probably because you get so addicted to it :rofl:

You will get a lot more out of your dog quicker if you did do weekly lessons and training sessions, however you don't have to. Remember to concerntrate on building innstinct and confidence (handler confidence as well) first by exposing to sheep then start control later. Don't try and rush your dog to the next stage too quick. Keep the building blocks as small as possible. zTHis is important for the dogs welfare and the handlers

Dry training without sheep can help. Train a reliable distance sit, drop, stop, recall (not formal) and behind and your half way there. There are also lots of other exersises one can do but they'll come later.

My advice is to try and expose the dog to sheep under supervision as often as you want until your confident enough to keep going at the starting level by yourself then get more lessons when you think your ready for the next stage.

Dave

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Hi Wayne. I think you must be the Wayne I met last Saturday at the Herding Workshop. I was the one with the smokey coloured Kelpie and the baby Westie.

Glad to see you have joined us here, and thanks for all your help on Saturday.

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What a wonderful thread. Well done to those who went along to the herding day, i can see by the photos that the dogs had a great old time. I realy enjoyed the photos, and Reilly you look like a pro.

Heres hoping you all get to continue with herding. And who knows we might see you out trialing one :whip:.

:thumbsup:

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