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Welcome to the World of the Working Dog!

How can I learn more?

Get Your Dog Tested!
Visit the Ranch for a Tour

Why do dogs love to work and herd?

   Herding and working livestock is not a trick to be learned or a task the dog wants to please you by doing.  The herding instinct was bred into certain dogs and so for a working dog, herding is fulfilling the purpose it was born to do!  Allowing the opportunity for a working dog to work is one of the great joys you will share with your dog.  The #1 reason people who train and compete with their dogs give for doing it is this:  "I LOVE the relationship with I have with my dog by working as a team!"

Links for to learn more about breeds that herd:


  • The American Herding Breed Association (AHBA)
  • herdingontheweb.com
  • dogbreedinfo.com
  • sheep101.info

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“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.”

-George Graham Ves


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