Herding tomorrow! EEeeek!

Tomorrow I'm taking Eddy to a herding class to experiment herding sheep and ducks. He's never taken any sort of obedience training or puppy class or anything before. I guess we'll just see if he enjoys it and go from there... The proprietor said her method is really for independent-minded dogs who work well on their own without reinforcement. Sounds exactly like Eddy! Another corgi-owner I know went to the herding thing and didn't like it. She didn't like how independent the dog's job was, and she wanted to be more involved. To each their own.

The lady said to start training at home with your dog's ability to Start-Stop-Wait-Start-Stop-Wait, and we've gotten it down ok... in our living room, though, with no ducks around to distract... She said no worries, though, that once we do a few rounds with humans involved, then most herding dogs can do it alone even on their first try. I'm very excited, and have been waiting for a month for April 24th to arrive! I hope other corgis are there! Thanks to Christy Fry for the referral to Brigand's Hideout. This place sounds awesome, the site says they'll let you use their livestock (to herd, haha) for free once you reach whatever master level or whatnot. And I heard somewhere it was the first place a Portugese water dog became a master herder! But that might be heresay.

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Comment by Nichole and Shelly! on April 24, 2010 at 1:21am: Oh! and take pictures ! your going to want to remember this day : )

Comment by Nichole and Shelly! on April 24, 2010 at 1:19am: Let us know how it goes! I was saying the same things you where when we started a year ago! Lol Lets just see how it goes hehe. If he takes to the sheep your going to get hooked! Im already looking into my next herding dog (esh!)

Comment by christy fry on April 23, 2010 at 10:29pm: have fun and i hope Eddy gets those sheeps and ducks =)

Comment by Jane Christensen on April 23, 2010 at 8:47pm: Can't wait to hear how it went. I wish I could find this for Livvy here and I love the part for the independent minded dogs...would be great again for Livyy!