Complete Online Program – Duration 180 mins

Selecting a Pup –
• Genetics
• Nature of pups
• Confirmation of working dogs
• Natural ability
• Endurance of dogs (stamina)
• Presence of dogs on livestock
• Select pups after they start working
• Ages of pups and dogs compared to humans
• What to teach at what age
• Trainability
• Select the best

Bond –
• Bonding with pup/young dog
• Spending time with pup/young dog
• Discipline and rewarding pup
• Not all pups the same
• How to create a bond with pup
• Single focused handling
• Tone of voice

Reward –
• No food rewards
• Pup/dog’s association to reward
• Pup/dog’s understanding reward
• Communicate with voice to reward
• Tone of voice, friendly pats
• Reward often

Repetition –
• Regularly repeat command
• Ask dogs only once
• Obedient dogs
• Initially educate dogs without command
• Have suitable livestock
• Teach dogs several things in a lesson
• Variation in dogs in how quick they learn
• Trainable dogs

Discipline –
• Leader of the pack
• Many forms of discipline
• Dogs must be disciplined
• No aggression toward other dogs or people
• All dogs are different, need different levels of discipline
• Body position to discipline dogs
• Releasing dogs from pressure
• No voice when disciplining dogs
• Stay calm when disciplining dogs
• Creating ignorance in dogs

Controlling emotions –
• Stay calm and focused when training
• Mistakes are good
• No signing mistakes
• Finish lesson at right time
• Time and patience important
• Educate dogs with body and training aid
• No voice educating
• No emotions to flow through to dogs
• Better way
• How to finish a lesson

Training Aids –
• How to educate dogs with training aids
• Suitable livestock
• What training aids to use
• How to use training aids
• How to use our body as an aid
• Placement of training aids
• Making dogs aware of training aids
• No voice command when introducing training aids
• Lower training aids
• Respecting training aids
• All dogs are different
• Different amounts of pressure needed for individual dogs
• Educate dogs without command
• How to communicate with dogs
• How to call dogs off livestock
• Finish command
• Giving dogs opportunity to see what they have learned

Puppy Obedience Training and Tips –
• Obedience training before introducing to livestock
• Teaching pups to understand reward and discipline
• Teaching pups to lead
• Teaching pups to tie up
• Changing direction
• Loose lead training
• Short lead and long lead
• Making sure you have a bond
• Put the time in
• Ages to teach this
• Safety tips for pups and young do

Reading Livestock –
• Learning to read animals, watch livestock
• Peripheral vision
• Focus on the livestock
• Learning what move the animal might make next
• Touching livestock
• Releasing pressure
• Keeping a consistent distance around livestock
• Walking straight
• Picking the livestock to be worked
• Placing dog in correct position
• Suitable livestock
• Teaching dogs to win
• Dogs to be educated to work livestock in the correct manner and keep livestock calm
• Introducing dogs to wild livestock

Starting a Pup –
• Suitable livestock
• Signs of stress in young dogs
• Area size to train in
• Building desire
• Position yourself to catch pups
• Setting pups up for success
• Short lessons
• Introducing noise that pups associates to excitement
• Starting pups young
• Introduce to training aids
• Rewarding pups
• Lighter sheep, less educated
• Put dog in an area where they can watch livestock
• Encourage, not force
• No verbal commands
• Body position and training aids
• Time to finish lesson
• All pups are different
• Single focused handling
• Excitement at end of lesson
• Slow starting pup

Stop/ Wait/ Recall –
• How not to be busy all the time
• Use quiet suitable livestock
• Recall dog off livestock
• Teaching dog to stop
• Teaching dog to wait
• Your body position to recall
• Use of stop command to teach recall
• Reward good responses from pup/dog
• Using a finish command
• Using a controlled environment
• Wait before training
• Control emotions when training
• Using repetition to achieve what we are teaching

Timing –
• Educate dogs in timing before command
• Using timing when balancing
• Handlers need timing to educate their dog
• Dogs learning timing
• Mechanical dogs regarding timing
• Focus on both livestock and dog
• Peripheral vision
• Timing can be improved with command
• Cover and balance at the correct time
• Take pressure off livestock at the correct time
• Repetition is how dogs learn

Balance –
• Use training aids and body
• Educate animals to walk straight
• Balance and heading first
• Balance and drive
• Educating without command
• Further educating with command
• Balance livestock to handler
• Balance dog in both directions
• Balance before side commands
• Correct distance
• Off balance
• Natural ability with balance
• Showing dogs how to do things they learn

Distance –
• Natural distance
• Release pressure
• Control distance of dogs on livestock
• Where to train paddock dogs
• Consistent distance
• Keep livestock happy
• Body position for handlers
• Comfortable distance
• Training animals to train dogs
• Distance varies for each dog
• Dogs’ presence

Sides –
• Using body and aids to educate
• Four sides
• Body position
• Good stop on dogs
• Anti-clockwise and clockwise directions
• Choosing side commands
• Switching sides
• Testing sides
• Side commands without aids or body movements
• Reward importance
• Full installation of sides
• Wide sides, narrow sides

Walk up and Force –
• Dogs need to be educated
• Good stop
• Bond
• How to build confidence
• How to educate dogs to force correctly
• Genetics
• Teaching dogs to win
• Weak dogs
• Reward every step
• Identify where dog is uncomfortable
• Releasing pressure
• Confidence, time and patience

Cast –
• Setting up dog to cast
• Comfort zone of livestock
• Wide command, directional commands
• Whistles for distance
• Point of control
• Over running, stopping short
• Needing stationery stock to teach
• Variation in natural ability
• Wide breaking dogs
• Wide and deep off livestock
• Distances of dog off livestock
• Cast command verses side command
• Teaching dogs to look for livestock
• Good stop and wait
• Move body
• Favourite sides
• All dogs need educating
• Don’t let dogs learn bad habits
• Look for livestock
• Time, patience and training