Snow Herding - Page 1

Very cool Rezkat5!!  I watched some of your other videos too.  How very physically fit they have to be!  Now those are WORKING DOGS!!    That was fascinating!  Sure wish I could try it or even watch it in person some day.  Makes our PT look so piddly!    Thanks for posting them.

Rozoan

Maybe Rezkat you'd be kind enough to explain to me what exactly your dogs are doing or suppose to be doing.  I know nothing at all about herding and would love to know.  I always thought that a dog had to move the sheep somewhere?

This is the "tending" style of sheep herding.  It's the dog's job to be a "living" fence to keep the sheep in a particular area or graze, without disturbing their grazing.  The dogs also move the sheep as well.  I have some other video too of some moving of the sheep.  I can post those later.  Right now, I'm off to work.   Sigh.....

Kathy

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/bulletins_read/252555.html

also was being discussed in this post.....

I enjoyed your videos, thanks!  Good looking dogs too!

Very nice, keeping the sheep between you and the perimeter to graze.  It takes alot of stamina to work this way. Again very very nice to watch.

Great videos!!!!  I really enjoy watching gsd's herd. What a great life your dogs must have.

Thanks Reezkat!

It's nice to see them doing exactly what they were bred for. As they say,"they need a job and love to work".

When I was in my teens (too many moons ago) I got to see two GSDs herd 40 pigs onto the back of a truck. I was simply amazed how well they worked together and how fast they accomplished the task. Some of the pigs refused to be herded onto the truck, one quick nip on the ass and they soon responded. I got to see this procedure numerous times it was extremely impressive.

Thanks everyone for your nice comments.  Yes the dogs do like to work their sheep.   Which is why I'm still working both of them.  They both just like it too much.  

Lexie HGH run this past October.   Most of the run is on here, with the exception of the exit from the pen and the repen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osC7QXMj9Y4

The run start and end with the pen.  The other exercises can be in any order and are as follows:

Exit from the pen

Narrow Road - Here the "shepherd" leads the flock along the road and the dog works either side, the full length of the flock, switching sides in the front not in the rear.   In Lexie's run you can see that we have a very obvious "weak" side that we are working on. 

Wide Graze

Placement before the front of the flock

Traffic - The handler and dog move the flock past a moving car from the front and from the rear. 

Narrow Graze.  

Repen

Ike's HGH run.   Here you get to see the exit from the pen.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osC7QXMj9Y4

Here is a AKC C Course which is modeled after the HGH, in most cases there are far fewer sheep.  Usually around 25 or so vs. 200 in the HGH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0q0FLoEsrs