Positive Herding 101: Dog-friendly training

by Barbara Buchmayer, Sally Adam (Other)

Overview

Searching for a proven approach to training positive herding?

Or are you seeking:

1. To learn some fun, new positive training skills to teach your dog?

2. A way to exercise both the mind and body of your high-energy dog?

3. The solution to a problem you are facing on your herding journey?

4. To investigate a companion interest to your main dog sport of:

- Agility

- Obedience/Rally

- Disc Dog

- Tracking/Nose Work or

- Other dog sport?

The search is over!

Positive Herding 101 addresses all of these concerns in detail and teaches you how to easily start your dog:

- In your home or yard

- Using treats, toys, and cones

- With no livestock

This book provides clear explanations, step-by-step training plans, and troubleshooting suggestions that create savvy trainers and thriving dogs. It's almost like having your own herding dog trainer on retainer!

Barbara Buchmayer has over 30 years of herding experience and coached Sally Adam of South Africa from a complete herding newbie to a South African Sheepdog Association's reserve herding champion.

This revolutionary new way to train herding is sheep tested, dog approved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781736844311
Publisher:	Positive Herding 101
Publication date:	08/13/2021
Series:	Positive Herding Dog , #1
Pages:	322
Sales rank:	378,025
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Barbara had trained herding for over 30 years. She started with traditional training and later decided to learn positive reinforcement training and apply it to herding. After a decade of trial and error, she has developed a proven method for training herding. She starts dogs away from livestock, usually in her home and backyard. She then takes her dogs near penned stock and eventually to loose livestock. It is much easier for dogs to learn herding skills without the huge distraction of livestock in the picture and later add stock to the training.

Sally started herding with no prior herding experience but was an excellent positive dog trainer. She taught agility, tricks, and basic obedience to her dogs and in her classes. Sally worked with Barb over the internet and trained her Border Collie puppy, Renn, into the South African Sheepdog Association's National Reserve Junior Champion in 2016.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword by Bob Bailey 5

Mind map 7

SECTION 1 Page 8

Getting and Building Behavior

1 The experiment 11

2 A brand new world 23

3 The un-balanced trainer 31

4 Learning theory 35

5 Getting behavior 47

6 Building behavior 67

7 Strengthening behavior 83

SECTION 2 Page 97

Foundation, Foundation, Foundation

8 Tools of the trade 99

9 Instinct and arousal 119

10 Planning to succeed 125

SECTION 3 Page 133

Basic Herding Skills

11 Herding in a nutshell 137

12 Obedient RAMs - from recall to stand 153

13 Transitioning obedience skills to stock 167

14 Herding RAMs - Stop 181

15 Herding RAMS - In 197

16 Herding RAMs - Back 207

17 Herding RAMs - Directionals 217

18 Herding RAMs - Moving directionals 229

19 Herding RAMs - Flanks 1 239

20 Herding RAMs - Flanks 2 253

21 Herding RAMs - Out and close 265

22 Herding RAMs - Hurry and easy 283

23 Herding RAMs - The bite 293

24 Generalizing the herding RAMs 305

Acknowledgments 313

References 314

Glossary 315

Appendices 318

Resources 320

Editorial Reviews

"In this book, Barbara does an excellent job translating the training of chickens in a classroom to training dogs to herd sheep in the field by describing the stepwise introduction of novice dogs to the various skills the dogs will need to become proficient herders. All in all, she has written an introductory 'How to' I believe would be useful to trainers new to herding, as well as to veteran trainers looking for new ideas, and maybe even a different training philosophy."

BOB BAILEY (Hon PhD)

"Positive Herding 101 is a wonderful addition to the working dog world. In traditional training, it's common to take big leaps, think: leaping from 2+2=4 to long division, with nothing in between. In positive training, the goal is to set achievable criteria so you don't have to give aversive feedback and Buchmayer is acutely aware of this. She has the experience and knowledge of both herding and the science of how animals learn to teach others these important skills."

SUSAN SMITH, co-author, Positive Gun Dog

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