i nolonger can watch t.v as ellie thinks it's all hers unless its a boring show that is



this behaver has started since she was bitten by the brown snake also she has panic attacks if she can not get inside the house and will dig wombat borrows under the back of the house to try and hide. but apart from that she is working well to the 3 comands that i have for her. away, go by and stop but can some tell me the command word to get her to push up the sheep have worked if they stand still with their back to her they don't have to move. i have tried push up and come up, the come up works a bit and she will step closer to them so that her nose is touching them but thats all i am getting apart from yesterday when i had spice in the yard with her i told ellie to come up and this time she had a snap at them and it got them moveing. she did this 3 times with spice in the yard with her but when i took spice out and put summa in she would not snap at them to get them moving' but summa did.


p.s the puppy is growing well and is so layed back it's hard for me to see her as a koolie when i vacumed out she was asleep so i vacumed her as well and she did not wake up, sorry but it was so funny

I use 'Push' to tell my dogs to get the sheep to move up with confrontation, bark & threat to bite, if they don't respond I use the command 'hit em' which means use force in the form of a nip, but this has to be taught & that comes down the the individual. I use the technique that the dogs respond to my voice tone, if I use a calm voice the dogs work calmly, to ask push I use a more stern yet hyped up voice & to 'hit em' I am being very stern & loud with the sheep so the dog knows I need them to move...but it has to be taught so the dog understands to feed it's intensity from your voice.

That pic watching TV is a classic!