Roxy's Progress At One Year of Age

Roxy is just 4 days shy of her first birthday and the video shows a small portion of her progress. The training program is structured, purposeful, consistent and effective…what training should be to fulfill the needs of the dog and the enjoyment of the handler rather than frustration for both. For first timers or those that have trained a prior dog with less desirable and satisfying methods, it will take more time to go through the steps than someone that has many dogs under their belt with the system since the handler and the dog are learning the steps together.
The most successful dogs are trained by knowledgeable stock people because they read stock so well and know when to interfere with their dog’s response and when to allow their dog the latitude to try to solve their own problems. There is a difference between constructive disobedience and destructive disobedience and the handler must learn to recognize the difference. I encourage people to move stock themselves without a dog so they might become more knowledgeable as to how stock see and react to pressure.
A handler can only teach the dog the five skills necessary for the dog to carry out their wishes, the down/stop, flanks, walk up, out and call off. Dogs should be allowed to exhibit and utilize their instinctual drives by working on honest stock and gradually in more and more complex and challenging situations but when using this system, as a trusted dependable partner to the handler, not the handler’s adversary.

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