Title: Herding Dogs II: Basic Skill Building
Pre-requisites: Dog and Handler must have all the skills taught in the course Herding Dogs: Building the Foundation. Puppies at least 5 months old, and dogs of any age may partic
ipate.
Course cost and length:
Live: $200.00 8 live sessions
Recorded: $85.00
Purpose/Goal: To solidly establish the basic skills of stock handling and partnership between you and your dog; and to be able to accomplish simple herding tasks.
Course Info: Herding Dogs: Basic Skill Building Course will teach you how to begin working together with your dog to move livestock. Your dog’s natural instincts for herding will be developed, as well as teaching your dog to look to you for leadership. You will learn how to start your dog on sheep or ducks and begin to teach and use the herding commands in response to stock movement and learn to control their path of travel.
What you can expect to learn from this Course:
• How to introduce your dog to stock for the first time
• How to teach your dog basic herding commands on stock
• Developing keenness, balance and obedience in your dog
• Learn to read stock as a handler, and how to convey responsive information to your dog.
• Allowing your dog’s stock sense to develop
• You and your dog will be able to accomplish simple herd tending tasks
Instructor Profile: Kathy Kawalec owns and operates Dancing Hearts, a holistic training and well-being center in Manhattan, Illinois. Kathy’s methods for teaching dogs and handlers, are based upon clear communication, understanding and respect, and are effective and positively reinforcing to dog and handler alike!
Kathy has successfully competed in all venues of herding events including USBCHA, AKC, ASCA and AHBA with her border collies for more than 10 years. Currently trialing in National Level fields trials sanctioned by The United States Border Collie Handlers Association, she has qualified for and competed in the National Finals, limited to the top dogs in the country.
Facilitating clinics and lessons both at her farm in Illinois, and around the Midwest, she has experience with all herding breeds, and her students have won many titles and ribbons competing in all venues.
Kathy’s methods focus on keeping the dog in a calm, focused, eager-to-learn state of mind – which helps the dog learn, and helps the handler to learn too!
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