Commands You Need and Commands You Hear in Herding

The major goal of herding has always been the controlled movement of stock. The use of dogs to help achieve this goal has deep historic roots, ranging from the hills and vales of countries throughout the world and across vast acres of range, desert, outback, and rolling pastoral pastures. Herding has been a viable sport for years as drovers and herders gathered to show off their dog’s various skill levels and compete for fun and bragging rights around the world. In the United States, the Border Collies have been an ongoing force from the earliest days, but recently, the field has expanded.

Throughout the entire range of literature on herding, the vocabulary seems to be dominated by the sheepherd- ing terms. Random selections dealing specifically with cattle herding add a few special words for specific tasks that cattle dogs do that sheep dogs rarely, if ever, have to perform. For the largest part, the cattle dog trainers or drovers have adopted the most basic sheepherding terms and adapted them to their daily work with cattle dogs.

Since many dogs are extremely versatile and can work many types of stock such as, but not limited to, sheep, cattle, and ducks with equal dexterity, this is no problem and quite likely one of the major reasons that the prac- tice of using sheepherding terms has persisted into today’s training circles.

However, another reason could also be that many of the herding clinics and seminars are frequently conducted Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100  |  Page 101  |  Page 102  |  Page 103  |  Page 104  |  Page 105  |  Page 106  |  Page 107  |  Page 108  |  Page 109  |  Page 110  |  Page 111  |  Page 112  |  Page 113  |  Page 114  |  Page 115  |  Page 116  |  Page 117  |  Page 118  |  Page 119