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Whether you are looking for mental and physical exercise for your dog in your house or your own back yard, you have come to the right place!

Wonder what a positive herding seminar is like? This is your chance to find out.

Listen as we talk positive herding on the Prairie Prospector podcast.

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A shift in the world of herding, finally!

Listen as we talk positive herding on the Talk Herdy to Me Podcast.

Rear end awareness

It's always the season for positive herding!

Enrichment Games for High-Energy Dogs

A recent article I read got me thinking about errorless learning.

So you want your dog to meet and greet sheep.

PHD Blog 84 - Sneak peek & good news/bad news

PHD Blog 82 - Cover reveal for Positive Herding 201

PHD Blog 80 - Bonus: Walk in to a target

PHD Blog 78 - Bonus: Loose Livestock Training

PHD Blog 76 - Change of schedule

PHD Blog 74 - Engagement vs distraction training

Do you have a herding dog that dreams about sheep or a high-energy dog that needs to move?

Positive Herding 101 covered how to start your dog herding using toys, treats, and cones but without livestock.

PHD Blog 61 - Dawg on Handlers

A mechanical dog is one that waits to be told every move to make. They are not allowed to use their natural instinct and abilities to control livestock.

In this blog we take a sneak peek into Positive Herding 101 to focus on rear foot awareness training and how it can be advantageous for your dog.

Dawg gives his opinion on sheep, Sir, and the book Positive Herding 101.

Herding dogs often are either considered forward or sideways moving dogs. What is the difference between a pushy and a sticky dog and how we reinforce their behavior?

How do you get your dog to think and take cues when being distracted by livestock? You start training in your front room and eventually move trained skills to stock.

A quick look at how balance and pull as they relate to your dog handling livestock. This video gives an explanation and then a video demo of the concepts.

This is the first video in a series that will cover the basics of herding, from explaining concepts and jargon to showing how these basics apply in the field.

A strong recall is important because it grows your relationship with your dog and builds an important positive herding skill, calling your dog off of livestock.

This is your chance to ask my star student anything about her experience training her dog to herd using positive methods or working with me long distance.

This blog features a video of bonus content to enhance and supplement my upcoming webinar. These videos will NOT be found in the webinar, but are exclusively available in this blog.

"How do I start training herding using positive methods?" The answer is: start just as you would training your dog to be a good companion, with sit, down, recall, and loose leash walking.

In this blog we are going to look at the Troubleshooting sections of the book. After each training plan there is a section that gives suggestions of how to change the plan, if needed.

How do you know when your dog is ready to go to stock and how do you get stock into a small pen so that they can be safely used to start your dog herding?

Ever wondered how a book is born? In this blog, I take you behind the scenes to witness the nuts and bolts of how I created my positive herding books.

After training rear end awareness (proprioception), your dog may add some rear end movements to herding or their everyday life that enhance their life or make them safer.

Rear foot awareness is a fun positive training exercise that teaches your dog proprioception, knowing where there limbs are in space. This will help your dog navigate rough terrain.

In this video, meet me, my three dogs, and my student Sally and her dog Renn from South Africa. Get a tour of our farm in Missouri and see my BC demo some herding.

It is easy to watch your dog, especially when they are doing something that you don’t want them to do, and feel that you know exactly what they are thinking. But can we read their minds?

As the gatekeeper, you control your dog’s access to livestock. Set your dog up for success by controlling their access to stock before you even enter the paddock.

My dog is very uncomfortable with the pressure from the sheep and her response is to dive in. It feels like she is very anxious and constantly trying to overcompensate.

It’s that magic moment when your dog is introduced to stock. Or should I say that it’s that terrifying moment?