Have you had them since pups? How were they to train?
My Australian Shepherd allows nothing to live in his domain except skunks, he tried two of them, killing one! Now on skunks he comes to get me! But everything else even butterflies are not allowed.
He has such a high energy runoff that requires minimum two Frisbee or ball sessions rain sleet or snow. Cooler days upwards of 4 sessions.
We have been thinking on getting him a buddy to hang with, help with the energy! We have not had a dog in 20 years till him, but we had several Blue and Red Healers that worked our farm, and there is still a half dozen on the farm my bro and dad live on.
I had forgotten the joy that dogs bring, kinda pissed we went so long without them. But I also made bad decisions in my youth years and not proud of it, but I fought dogs for a number of years. I enjoy training dogs. I trained all our working dogs while growing up on the farm to gather cattle, loading chutes and a calf roping arena. We would run between 4 and 5 hundred head of just roping calves a year through the ropings we had, and a few hundred big cows.
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Iād imagine even the ācouchā one would tear a guy up if he walked up and slapped at you or your wife!!
I trained these dogs for 10yrs when I was in the military. Best working breed on the planet and you canāt change my mind.
Depends on what is āworkingā I would imagine on sheep/cows they may be to rough to use, to easily excitable to function well. Takes a smart aggressive but calm dog to work cattle/sheep.
Sounds like herding to me.
Had old boy since he was 8 weeks. My wife had lots of time when he was younger, she does a really good job with training- but: he really didnāt get enough exposure to strange dogs and people, so that is something weāll do with the next one.
Young guy is a rescue weāve had since December.
I just took him for a run, heās getting better.
That mean one is scared of cows lol
A rescue Malinois seems like a pretty bold move - kudos.
