Brisbane Herding

[Casey & BC Kiara]

Hi everyone,

I have a BC pup who is nearly 6 months old and I would love to get her into herding, as she has a very strong herding instinct and herds everything from flies to birds to cars. So I have heard that a dog properly trained in herding will only herd sheep or other specified things and will learn not to herd cars.

So I was wondering where I start out? I live in the southside of Brisbane and would like to stay close, but if there is nothing good out this way I will obviously travel to get there.

So if anyone can provide me with the basics (I have nooo idea about herding) and somewhere to go that would be fantastic!

Cheers

[GoldenGirl85]

Some people in my agility club take their dogs herding, Im not sure, but it could be this place

http://sheepherdingqueensland.com/

Woodford is up past Caboolture

[piper]

Hi everyone,

I have a BC pup who is nearly 6 months old and I would love to get her into herding, as she has a very strong herding instinct and herds everything from flies to birds to cars. So I have heard that a dog properly trained in herding will only herd sheep or other specified things and will learn not to herd cars.

So I was wondering where I start out? I live in the southside of Brisbane and would like to stay close, but if there is nothing good out this way I will obviously travel to get there.

So if anyone can provide me with the basics (I have nooo idea about herding) and somewhere to go that would be fantastic!

Cheers

Can't help you with where to take your pup for herding, but I will say that doing herding does not guarantee that they will not try and go after cars or other things. That is a training thing.

Herding does give them an outlet for physical andmental stimulation and the correlation that it most likely gives is the training and response to commands. Teaching a dog to stop on command with moving prey in front of it takes work and is useful in other situations.

Good luck, give herding a go. It is an enjoyable past time but don't expect that it will necessarily solve your problems. For things like car chasing work on a strong focus on you, sit or drop. So teaching the dog to look at you or automatically sit/drop when a car approaches.