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<blockquote data-quote="Bama" data-source="post: 195429" data-attributes="member: 1184"><p>Just got a new blue heeler pup to replace mine that died a little back. Dogs and cattle mix like oil and water. A good cattle dog on my place is raised with the cattle. My little 8 week old pup stays in the barn. He will grow up thinking that barn is his. He mingles with the cattle. He will learn what cattle can do before I start training him. So far hes been stepped on once that I know of, thats part of his learning experance. When the cattle are up laying down near the hay he goes out there and walks around them. Sniffing and figuring out what that big old thing laying there is. The cattle are fed first then he gets fed. He learns to wait until I'm ready to feed him. I call this backgrounding for the dog. Only after he is exposed to the cattle will I start training him to work then, and only then, if he measures up. I'll cull a dog as quickly as I will a cow. A dog that has not grown up around cattle has no place inside the gate as far as I'm concerned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bama, post: 195429, member: 1184"] Just got a new blue heeler pup to replace mine that died a little back. Dogs and cattle mix like oil and water. A good cattle dog on my place is raised with the cattle. My little 8 week old pup stays in the barn. He will grow up thinking that barn is his. He mingles with the cattle. He will learn what cattle can do before I start training him. So far hes been stepped on once that I know of, thats part of his learning experance. When the cattle are up laying down near the hay he goes out there and walks around them. Sniffing and figuring out what that big old thing laying there is. The cattle are fed first then he gets fed. He learns to wait until I'm ready to feed him. I call this backgrounding for the dog. Only after he is exposed to the cattle will I start training him to work then, and only then, if he measures up. I'll cull a dog as quickly as I will a cow. A dog that has not grown up around cattle has no place inside the gate as far as I'm concerned. [/QUOTE]
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