Thread: Farm working dog commands

Originally Posted by Sarvo

I will be totally honest with ya - I have thrown more than a f~~cking fence at my dogs - actually to be honest I feel sick to think now what I did do occasionally to the poor muts

I remember one day in particular
My sheep/cattle/deer farm was bordered by Dairy cockies (aka tit pullers)
I was in front paddock and my Huntaway who turned out to be a cracker was giving me the total run-around - so me being an immature 23-25 year old at the time was giving this dog a verbal abusing that you cannot even imagine

After the 2-5min rampage - I looks around and there just 200m behind me over boundary was the complete Reporoa Dairy Farm monthly walk around doing neighbours farm
I felt sick!!

So I sheepishly (no pun intended) goes down to local Tavern next night and literally got a standing ovation
They all said that they all learnt words that day that they never knew existed

Where we grew up the local school was about a mile away across a 100 acre river flat and river. Our wool shed was a couple hundred metres from the house, and the river flats were used as holding paddocks for shearing. I can remember coming home from school one day and racing over to the wool shed as we were shearing. The old man was talking to the shears on their break saying that he had had a phone call at lunch time from the local head master saying that he found the old mans use of language offensive, and that all the swearing and cursing within ear shot of the school needed to stop. The old man told the head master he couldn't understand what the problem was, and if he wanted to name one of his dogs 'Jesus' and the other one 'Christ' that it was his prerogative and hung up.

Using a fence does same - with sheep encluded