TRAINING dogs NOT to chase livestock is ESSENTIAL

[@joda7771]

Low arousal approach was invented in England during the 90th. That is what we have to harvest now in many areas.

[@rensha8635]

Perfectly said.

[@JoJo_GSD]

🙌💯 truth

[@eartheclipse9623]

socialisation around livestock DOES NOT mean that your dog won't chase sheep or other livestock, I took my dog as a puppy to plenty of agri shows and have done more than ample amounts of recall training and around livestock with long line and rewards, my dog has been all over the England and Scotland including wild camping so its not new environments problem either, he's seen them plenty of sheep to be able to ignore them, problem is none of that overrides predatory instinct, he's got distance thresholds which is great and very useful, but thresholds don't work and aren't totally manageable or realistic if there's a sheep hiding behind a big grourse bush on a public path that we have walked past and the sheep then runs as sheep often do when you get to them! (as you seen when we came to you - Anubis). now he's deceiving and one that would catch owners out because he doesn't run across a field just because there are sheep there, he doesn't react if the sheep are at a distance and calm, he's recall off leash with sheep at a distance, however, if they are to run, bleat and generally display prey like behaviour I have zero doubt he would chase and likely kill livestock, being a true predator and picking the weakest link available to him, he's also a lone dog that is likely to deploy stalking tactics until in reasonable strike range (unlike pack behaviour that will chase it down from a distance). Now that might make him sound like a horrible dog, but he's not he's a DOG, a predatory animal that was originally created to help us, as humans to hunt and survive! what I need to do as his human & owner in todays world is to teach him that some things are just unacceptable to do in this world and livestock worrying is just one those of many training aspects. he's a post pandemic pup so there's zero excuses for that anywhere and I don't even know where that comes from because those dogs should be very handler focused with all the 1-2-1 time they've had and have excellent basic obedience skills under minimal distractions. The sheep didn't disappear from the fields during Covid either and we were all utilising the great outdoors just not to be stuck at home. Farmers are genuinely terrified, we had one who saw us pass with backpacks and dog being a knob on the leash (spinning) as we past the fields (lambs bleating), he came up to his field (at end of road) armed and ready to act because he was expecting to find the dog chasing his livestock (he's had problems before with other dogs too). He did not expect to find us outside his field camping and utilising his abandoned tractor trailer hitch as a teether point for the dog so that there was little to no chance that he would be able to do anything. the farmer was glad and grateful to come across someone who'd thought ahead and made provisions to keep everyone safe. people forget even farmers, whose own collies attack their livestock will get shot.

[@JoJo_GSD]

Not the same person involved in the amendments to the act as didn't like ecollars who went on to use them with their own dog?😯 Speaks volumes 🙄😞