TRAINING
WITH TEMPERAMENT THEORY
Herding with Bold Dogs: A Pictorial
Representation
by
Val Maurer
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Training:
Training
Using Temperament Theory
Obedience and Temperament Theory
Agility and Temperament Theory
Herding and Temperament Theory: Action Dogs
The Temperament Theory and Rescue Work
Reference:
Bibliography
Glossary
Living
With Border Collies
Hug Therapy
United States
Border Collie Club
Border Collie Society of
America
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BC is in extreme Bold. Nothing handler says or does is getting thru to the BC in this state. In other words, don't take it personally!
Handler isn't prepared for the Action and cannot hold onto leash - is pulled off her feet trying. (Been there, done that, don't want to do it again!)
Practice Feelings around sheep. This is one example. Practice recalls - Upbeat for coming, Wary for not. (I learned this example accidentally. We gave up on herding lessons for Gilley and decided to use the sheep as a distraction for recall practice. Once he consistently started coming to Nikki all on his own with no "assistance" from me, we noticed that the sheep got really relaxed. So we worked him a bit around the sheep and we had the best herding lesson ever with this dog. We all got a big laugh from the irony of this.)
Helper picks up leash and brings BC to handler. Encouragement and praise from both helper
and handler all the way. This is one way to practice Upbeat.
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