by Kay Spencer Congratulations on your new English Shepherd pup! If he or she is a nicely bred dog from useful working parents, you have the biggest hurdle over with. The road to owning a good farm dog starts with buying a pup with the genetics to instinctively want to be a good farm dog. […]
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Puppy Stages
[Editor’s note: The outlined stages below are generalities for canines. Just as each breed can be different, so can each litter. Some litters may reach stages at slightly different ages. Pictures throughout this article submitted by Marianne Dwight from Fox Hill English Shepherds. The images follow Ginger from newborn to 2-1/2 years old.] Puppies are growing animals. When they are […]
Choosing a Sound Puppy
article reprinted with permission, copyright by Vivian Flynt The English Shepherd owner’s litany of her sheppy’s afflictions were heart wrenching – a severe overbite, torn cruciate ligaments and a failed surgery to fix them, bilateral hip dysplasia, and patellar dislocation. Like this lady, the vast majority of English Shepherd owners prefer to get a […]
Another Horse Lesson…for KAT
Well …I knew KAT had not learned the lesson yet…Not to chase horses… This afternoon we were watching the horses as they ate their evening meal… I had picked up the empty coffee can and had it ready… Sure enough she went after the horses…(not as hard as yesterday) I tossed the empty can in […]
I have never had…
A Puppy that was interested in chasing my horses… Well NOW …I do! KAT went into the field with the horses and took a good hard run at them …At the last minute she decided they were way to big to do anything with…Turned and sat down and watched them…Then came when I called her. […]
KAT…Training 101
We are working on basic obedience and teaching sit at the gate or door while the other dogs go thru or out …KAT has to wait. Then wait untill I say “come”. She is actually doing quite well at this, I will look and she will be sitting quietly waiting 70 % of the time […]
Necessary Lesson…
KAT did not mind me today… I told her to stay at the gate while Drover and I went to check on a lamb. She waited till I was out of site and then scaled the gate and came running! I told her to go back . She did. When our work with the sheep […]
HIKING with KAT Ballou….
KAT and I went on a hike yesterday. She had a ball.. It was one on one time. We went to the creek. She sat and waited at the gates till released. I allowed her to run free and enjoy the hike. She stayed close at first. Once we arrived at the creek she had […]
KAT Ballou…
PUPPY!!!!!! I so forget about the stages young puppies go thru! KAT is currently in her second puppy stage…Tear up things…Can’t hear me…Does not mind well… What happened to my perfect pup? Well this evening she had a few lessons in manners, and sit and stay! KAT is 7 months of age… Puppy License ended […]
KAT Ballou Up Date…
With pups you hit a phase where all seems fine and not much to talk about… Well now… KAT has out growing that stage… We are working again on not biting me…I tell her no and patiently without emotion roll her lip in on her teeth…As all ways it works she just needs to be […]