Name: So You Want an Australian Cattle Dog? Keep Up: A Practical Australian Cattle Dog Owner’s Guide to Choosing, Reward-Based Training, Herding Behavior (So you want a dog ?)
SKU: 68914904
Price: 47.39 NZD
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Author: Cole, Brandon
ISBN: 9798170170180

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So You Want an Australian Cattle Dog? Keep Up: A Practical Australian Cattle Dog Owner’s Guide to Choosing, Reward-Based Training, Herding Behavior (So you want a dog ?)

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Independently published

Author

Cole, Brandon

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9798170170180

So You Want an Australian Cattle Dog? Keep Up: A Practical Australian Cattle Dog Owner’s Guide to Choosing, Reward-Based Training, Herding Behavior (So you want a dog ?)

Cole, Brandon (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "So You Want an Australian Cattle Dog? Keep Up: A Practical Australian Cattle Dog Owner’s Guide to Choosing, Reward-Based Training, Herding Behavior (So you want a dog ?)"

So you want an Australian Cattle Dog? Great. Keep up. Smart, athletic, observant, persistent, and occasionally convinced that everyone in the household could use a little more supervision, the Australian Cattle Dog is an extraordinary companion—but rarely a passive one. So You Want an Australian Cattle Dog? Keep Up is a practical owner’s guide to choosing the right dog, reward-based training, herding behavior, exercise, health, and building a sustainable life together. Choose More Than a Pretty Heeler Learn how to evaluate breeders and rescues, verify health screening, understand temperament information, ask better questions, and decide whether an Australian Cattle Dog genuinely fits your household and lifestyle. Train the Brain Attached to Those Fast Feet Build recall, loose-leash walking, settling, doorway manners, cooperative handling, safe confinement, social skills, and reliable everyday behavior using humane reward-based methods instead of intimidation or force. Herding Instincts Do Not Clock Out at Home Understand chasing, heel nipping, motion sensitivity, barking, vigilance, interactions with children and animals, and how management plus training can turn inherited drive into safer, more useful behavior. :contentReference[oaicite:2] More Exercise Is Not Always the Answer Learn how to balance purposeful activity, conditioning, enrichment, training, sleep, and recovery—because creating an even fitter dog who still cannot settle may not be the victory it sounds like. Health and Care for the Long Haul Explore feeding, body condition, coat and dental care, BAER hearing testing, eyes, joints, breed-relevant health screening, heat safety, travel, emergencies, adolescence, adulthood, and the senior years. :contentReference[oaicite:3] The goal is not to exhaust your Australian Cattle Dog into behaving. It is to build a capable, healthy, well-understood partner who knows when to work, when to listen—and, with enough practice, when everyone can finally sit down.