{"id":2216,"date":"2019-03-29T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2019-03-29T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:40:15","slug":"pup-harassing-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=2216","title":{"rendered":"Pup Harassing Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We adopted a red heeler\/border collie cross pup.\u00a0 She is now 6 months old.\u00a0 We’ve worked only on basic commands – come, sit, off.\u00a0 She has done very well.\u00a0 About a month ago she started chasing the horses.\u00a0 She is still somewhat scared of them, but is super excited when they turn and run.\u00a0 She seems to be very instinctive about coming from behind and turning them to us, but has also been testing her teeth with nips to their feet.\u00a0 Once she’s focused on a horse or a cow, she will not come when called.\u00a0 We have a very small herd of cattle – 38 cow\/calf pairs and we don’t want to start her working them because we don’t want to ruin her.\u00a0 She’s much more instinctive than the heeler we previously had. I can’t seem to find any advice on getting her to stop pestering the horses though – aside from one guy who told us that a stock dog can never be loose unless it’s working.\u00a0 Is this true??<\/p>\n

Answer<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A pretty good way to ruin her is to scold her for not coming to you when she is chasing the cattle or horses.\u00a0 In her mind you are scolding her for working.\u00a0 If you are successful in teaching her not to harass the horses at her age, it\u2019s a pretty good bet she won\u2019t make much of a cow dog when she grows up.<\/p>\n

Bud wrote a lot about starting a pup on our website.\u00a0 I know it is a lot to wade through, but if you are serious about making you pup a good stockdog I think it will be worth your time to read them.<\/p>\n

The guy who told you \u201ca stock dog can never be loose unless it’s working\u201d is pretty close.\u00a0 We made pets of all of our stockdogs,\u00a0 but unless we were with them, they were either penned or tied.\u00a0\u00a0 The last thing we wanted was for our dogs to \u201cmake a life\u201d that didn\u2019t include us.\u00a0 This is especially true of a young dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We adopted a red heeler\/border collie cross pup.\u00a0 She is now 6 months old.\u00a0 We’ve worked only on basic commands – come, sit, off.\u00a0 She has done very well.\u00a0 About a month ago she started chasing the horses.\u00a0 She is still somewhat scared of them, but is super excited when they turn and run.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockdogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}