Training an 18 month old Bearded collie X

[tracybro 0]

Anyone any success training a collie X which has had no previous training to work. We have recently purchased 28 acre mixed pasture and woodland and are looking for a working dog to start out with to help control the local rabbit population. The local pound have contacted us to say htey have an 18 mth old bearded collie x this dog has been in a pound for 3 mths as a result of a neglect case (underweight near starvation). The dog is very good-natured and does not seem nervous from his experience. The guys running the pound feel that the dog is completely trainable and a bit of a blank canvass. Any comments. I do understand that ideally he should have been trained to retrieve from say 6 months. Am prepared to put the work in and realise that it may take a year or so for him to be useful.

Edited January 13, 2011 by tracybro

[bigoy19706 276]

i have just been given a 2 year old bullx bitch that has not seen anything she been out with us lamping 3 time watching my mates dog on rabbits and alredy alot keener and started looking down the beem i will start sliping her next time i go out

[wuyang 513]

Worked a rescued border collie that i got at the age of about 15 months. She spent all her life in a stable before i got her. I will always remember the first time i took her out, i couldn't believe how she just naturally started to hunt up with the rest of my dogs...amazing. She turned out to be the best bushing/grafting dog i have ever owned. I think once the penny drops its got every chance of making a worker, but unless you know the history of the dog its always a gamble, but a rewarding one if it works out.

[Mr Hunter 31]

Keep us updated on its progress etc if you take the plunge

[my hounds 315]

Tracybro,i have sent you a couple of Pm,s.CHEERS,TREVOR.