Ulf Kintzel and the HGH - Page 3

Good Luck!!  And have fun with it.  I sure wish I were close to Ulf or another HGH trainer with a large flock of sheep!

molly

Yeah....I'm only about an hour and ten from Geary :)  We're going to do a Herding Instinct next Tuesday :)

Is there anyone training HGH style herding on the west coast?

Let us know how it goes Xeph!  complete with pics would be nice 

My dad has alot of sheep, but there is no way in hay, he'd let me try my dog on them.

I will, because we've been bumped up to Tomorrow night xD

We're leaving in in about 30 minutes to try out my girl on sheep...I'm SO nervous x.x

So how did it go, Xeph?

*sighs* Nothing :(

However, Geary himself was honest, but fair and kind.  He did say that we could try again in a couple of months and she could come around.  He also complimented me on how level headed and easy she was.  Nothing bothered her (unfortunately, that included the sheep xD), but she showed no signs of nervousness, walked right away with him when he took the long line, and obeyed commands he gave that she understood.

She was not upset when his (kenneled) Maremma set to barking, nor was she upset when his working dog kept popping his head out of his kennel to watch her.

I appreciated his mention of how she wasn't startled by anything :0

She wasn't interested at all??  Sorry to hear that Xeph..

How did he started her..in a round pen? Give some details on how the test took place (how does he test them)..i'm curious to know..

One of my girl, who is very obedient, didn't do good in a small pen at the beginning..she was just looking at me for commands, did let herself go because she felt I would tell her no (I always try to tell her to stop chasing the cats and the deers etc LOL).  We put her in a big area and then magic occur..I wasn't existing anymore..she rounded those sheeps and was fetching them very naturally..her confidence grew and we tried her again in a small area and she did just perfect..I would love her to do more tending then driving or fetching but we don't have much sheeps around here..twenty is about all you can have.  

so please..details???

Julie

How did he started her..in a round pen? Give some details on how the test took place (how does he test them)..i'm curious to know..
Never in a pen.  Geary is a real time working Shepherd.  He uses Beauceron's to tend his flock, and he had his male out working (lovely to watch).  He just had Delphi watch at first, see if she would be interested.  When that didn't work, he thought maybe moving the flock to an enclosure would help (Remember, this is HGH...his entire flock is currently in an Open graze, he had to set the enclosure up prior to our arrival), and we just followed behind while he moved the sheep to the pen.

Delphi was more interested in sniffing the grass on the way than she was in the moving sheep.

At the enlcosure, he just had her move around the border, since overall the dog does not interact with the sheep like a Border Collie would.  She showed no interest when he purposely startled them up....just kept up with marking and sniffing the grass. *sigh*

It's so hard not to compare her to my workaholic dog...