A Sheepdog Clinic Series with Ellen Skillings

Building and Re-building Foundations for Effective Stock Work.
Three One-Day Clinics - 8:00am to 4:00pm each day Saturday/July 9th, Saturday/July 23rd & Saturday/July 30th, 2011 Clinics to be held at: 7 Oaks Ranch, 3440 Phillips Ave, Santa Rosa CA 95407.
This clinic series, hosted by George Powell & Maureen Lyons, will focus on enhancing the handler’s interspecies communication skills in order to achieve better control of livestock. Ellen will use talks, "games" and individual work sessions to demonstrate fundamental principles of using Border Collies to work sheep.

I. Saturday, July 9, 2011 - The Importance of ‘Talking Dog’ (or the wolf in child’s clothing) Morning Session - The Biological Basis of Mammalian Communication: Tone, Posture and Position (and the special gifts of Border Collies). Afternoon Session - The Sheep Have Eyes Too: Reading sheep as the key to success.

II. Saturday, July 23, 2011 - ‘Good Moves’ Morning Session - The Freedom to Make Mistakes (and how and when to correct them). Afternoon Session - I Said, "Lie Down!": Why the ‘Stop’ is the first command we want and the last one we get.

III. Saturday, July 30, 2011 - Command and Control Morning Session - Saying What You Mean, and Meaning What You Say: Introducing (or re-introducing) the commands. Afternoon Session - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Using what you know to get what you want.

Go to http://agilityacres.net/ or http://www.powellsk9productions.com/index.htm for registration & information.