Working Sheep Dogs: A Practical Guide to Breeding, Training and Handling

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Provides a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the principles behind the training of working dogs. It reveals little-known methods and secrets for training and handling sheepdogs in the most effortless manner. It also contains the first and only comprehensive breakdown and analysis of the instincts of the working dog and goes on to discuss various principles and methods of their breeding.

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"Working Sheep Dogs is not simply a manual on how to train a working animal, but provides a whole new approach to breeding, training and handling farm dogs."--Trudi Slavin "The Land"

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Tully Williams has an Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Farm Management) and has worked as a farm manager and professional stockman for the past ten years. He has an in-depth knowledge of genetics and breeding, and animal psychology, developed over many years. Tully has also served as a counselor and Sheepdog trial judge for the Victorian Working Sheepdog Association (VWSDA), the body that manages sheepdog trials in Victoria.