Thread: Farm working dog commands

trying to come up with a couple of verbal side commands. Pretty fresh when it comes to this.
What's a couple of favourite's you guys have used or heard in the past.

Originally Posted by bigbear

trying to come up with a couple of verbal side commands. Pretty fresh when it comes to this.
What's a couple of favourite's you guys have used or heard in the past.

Keep out = right (dogs right)
Get in (pronounce gidin) - dogs left

Waylego = come back :-)))

Thanks @Sarvo one of my dogs have a waylego all my dogs have a get in.

Originally Posted by bigbear

Thanks @Sarvo one of my dogs have a waylego all my dogs have a get in.

Get in wont work for sides on them then :-))

My father was a top dog trialist and judge of such
He never won a NZ but did win a S Island with Hunterway on Zigzag in 70's

I was a keen trialist with modest success locally. I used "get over" & "keep off" for left and right.
But you also need commands to bring a huntaway back to the centre line to change sides. I used "where" and "behind".

the ONLY trouble with using left and right as your commands is eveyone watching knows what you said and if dog doesnt do it..... otherwise cant see why not just use...left and right.


I mean we use..get up..get over..get back..get in behind ya flaming mongrel...get out of it etc etc so why not go left and go right?????at least you wont forget it.
I just used my arms and or body movement with dog watching me as was (still are) a lazy bugga.

I brought a huntaway couple years ago and her commands are left and right. Still got her, and now she is my main dog. Another has 'come here' and behind. hate that come here as a side command

My commands were as follows, and when used on long casts, I would whistle the dog to a sit position first, and accompany them with visual left/right hand signals:
left - "leeeeeeeeeft"
right - "riiiiiiiiiiiiight"
initial long cast either left or right but making dog go behind me - "away forred"
go up the hill - "get back up"
come down the hill - "come down"
go through the fence - "get through"
move forward - "walk up"
slow down - "steady"
bark - "speak up"
no bark - "quiet"

Whole idea was to keep commands simple, forceful, and non repetitive, and easy for someone else to pick up if they had to work the dog without having the teach them Gallic first.

Don't forget when it all goes pear shaped to use the old tried and true "ya bludy mongrel!!!"

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Don't forget when it all goes pear shaped to use the old tried and true "ya bludy mongrel!!!"

And go do it on the Honda


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Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Don't forget when it all goes pear shaped to use the old tried and true "ya bludy mongrel!!!"

"For F$%ks sake" seemed to be quite popular too on some properties

Fu##en mongrol has more of a ring...
Or 'you useless c@@t ' or " ill fcuk you right up ..."


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"Food!"

When I first started shepherding,I was given a heading bitch,and a hunterway.......thought I had alll the commands down........word got out about my ability to control them,....and several of the local Cockys would show up,..arm chairs and piss in hand ,and watch me fuck it all up......I could here them laughing there fucking arses off for miles........was given a trophy at the pukemanu Pub for my efforts(to much laughter),,,,,,,,good luck mate,I don’t miss those days.

Sit!