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The most important thing I have found is to make friends with your dog/puppy. Let them have plenty of fun and build their confidence.
Young dogs mostly start with me in a 'sheep ring'.This is a role of netting staked into the ground in the shape of a circle. The sheep are inside and the dog outside, therefore allowing the dog to run round freely and not do any damage to the sheep or its self.
open/close gate
near the edge of field to make it easier to put sheep into the ring
not to scale >>
no harm to dog or sheep,less stress
point of balance
when starting a young dog there natural instinct is to gather the sheep towards you,you can harness this and use it to your advantage the dog will find it more natural to stop or slow down when it sees you and the sheep,
if you go to your right, the dog should go to its right,well in theory, and if you go to the left the dog should go to his left
you exaggerate to start with and then smaller movements
giving small commands for what they are doing, avoid hand signals as the dog will start looking for the commands and not listening for them.
