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Ray..... .....yeah, I trained my Aussie myself. Its a long envolved process for me because I don't do it with a new dog every other month like the professional trainers do. They're up on the learning curve. (grin) What I like about Aussies, they're not as intense as Border Collies. If you don't have something for the BC to do everyday and all day long, they become nurotic and distructive. Aussies are just a little more laid back and want to work to please you. Herding dogs have been selectively bred for the herding instinct. The training enhances that instinct and you take advantage of the dogs natural pack instinct by yourself becoming the "ALPHA" dog of the pack. It is the job of the pack members to bring the prey to the leader for the kill. All prey animals flock together for safety and have a flight safety zone around them like a bubble. The training enhances the dogs ablility to detect that bubble and just bend it a little bit, which the prey animal responds to by moving away to ballance out the bubble. If the herding dog will put the pressure on the bubble correctly, the livestock will move to get away and if the dog is in the right position the livestock will go thru the gate, if in the wrong postion, they'll go thru the fence (grin)..... .....Dell
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