| | Herding Dogs: Progressive Training (Howell Reference Books) |  | Manufacturer: Howell Book House
Category: Digital Book Service
Buy New: $2.19
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
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Media: Digital
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.8
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70886
ASIN: B000GPP4CI
Publication Date: October 13, 1994
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Gone to the dogs February 23, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is just the thing for someone who is interested in training a herding dog or just want to find out how it is done.This deals with herding sheep, but I was left wanting to know if this training could be used on other types on livestock? If you want to go herding this book wil herd you in the right direction.
 Herding Dogs: Progressive Training February 21, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
While it provided techniques for teaching with a herd. It would have been nice to provide techniques to teach the dog the basic commands without the sheep. It didnt really cover the basics for the real beginner. It was more like an intermediate book.
 written in easy to refer style October 28, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Addressed everything I needed to know. Dog is working well
Border Collie bias...but still good August 19, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The author obviously loves Borders..and so do I. There is a bias in the book toward explaining Borders (over other breeds) but there is also worthwhile knowledge that other herder owners can learn from. In short "learn from your dog" and adapt is the primary message. What "makes a dog stress out and react" positively or negatively is worthwhile reading. In the end it is about the dog and training the handler.
The cartoons are sweet and make it fun for my grandkids to understand why I do these crazy things and why they should too! Still...this is a book not written for 10 year olds...it is written for me to get in the mind of my herder so we can both get the job done, intelligently and calmly and not stress out my sheep....and with as little help from me as possible!
A worthwhile book on my shelf and one I will refer to again and again.
really just for border collies May 22, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
an excellent book for a novice herder with a border collie; clear, and as the title says, it takes you one step at a time toward more advanced work. However, it is has little to offer those with other herding breeds with different herding styles and different common problems. My own breed (working-bred australian shepherd) is one of the scant few besides the border collie still in common use as a stock dog; it is described by the author as a "driving" dog, i.e. a breed which does not instinctively bring the group of stock to the handler, as a "fetching" dog does, but takes them in any direction. This is completely false, as any competent aussie trainer will tell you; aussies are as much fetch dogs as borders are. Perhaps the other breeds are more accurately described, but they are all given extremely short shrift. For example, the section on teaching a dog to come in close is pointless if you have the naturally close-working aussie (or almost any other breed except borders), but is useful for many border collies which are wide workers and lose their heads in close quarters.
In response to another reviewer who found the diagrams hard to follow--once you start working stock it all makes sense. Before that, it makes no sense at all.
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