martlin
Well-Known Member
Hello all, I wonder if you can help me out a bit... I seem to have, ahem, acquired another dog. Where do I start, a bit of background:
we have a mid sized flock of sheep and a sheepdog to go with it, border collie called Stacie We bought Stacie partly trained at the age of 15 months, she is nearly 5 yo now and I continued her training myself and she is a fully fledged sheepdog now. As our flock is growing, we have decided that another dog to work alongside Stacie would be a grand idea, because as much as my lovely JRT tries, no self respecting ewe takes her seriously
So, I was expecting that we will take the long trip to Buith Wells(Sp?), visit the guy we bought Stacie from and just get another - simple, right? Well, no, apparently not! My OH just went and bought a PUP a lovely huntaway boy.
And that's where my little problem lies. I have had puppies before and trained them as companions, I have a sheepdog I continued training with, but I have never trained a sheepdog from scratch! So... how do I actually start?
I can share a Godfellas Pepperoni and a red bull if you got this far
we have a mid sized flock of sheep and a sheepdog to go with it, border collie called Stacie We bought Stacie partly trained at the age of 15 months, she is nearly 5 yo now and I continued her training myself and she is a fully fledged sheepdog now. As our flock is growing, we have decided that another dog to work alongside Stacie would be a grand idea, because as much as my lovely JRT tries, no self respecting ewe takes her seriously
So, I was expecting that we will take the long trip to Buith Wells(Sp?), visit the guy we bought Stacie from and just get another - simple, right? Well, no, apparently not! My OH just went and bought a PUP a lovely huntaway boy.
And that's where my little problem lies. I have had puppies before and trained them as companions, I have a sheepdog I continued training with, but I have never trained a sheepdog from scratch! So... how do I actually start?
I can share a Godfellas Pepperoni and a red bull if you got this far