This is a follow up video to discuss more about training your Australian cattle dog not to nip and also how teaching them to heel can help. These tips are just from my experience and what works for us, and I hope they can bring some help to you as well.
I may not have described it well in the video, but getting your dog to heel is where your pup follows you at your pace and at your side. Since I’m just starting Gypsy out on heeling, I’m fine if she travels behind me at times. Since she’s still learning. But this is just another great training exercise to help cattle dogs who may be nipping, but any of the methods in the video can be used.
You can also check out my previous video about nipping here:
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36 Comments
Gday.
My partner & I have put a deposit down for a cattle dog puppy, due to come home in 2 weeks.
We’re just a bit worried as a lot of super had said they can be super aggressive & that is definitely not what we want.
I wondered, have you found this to be true?
We also have a bunny that roams around the house and definitely don’t want any accidents.
Do you teach obedience?
We have a 13 week old Cattle dog and omg we are STRUGGLING…the nipping is so intense, the barking, the pooping and weeing everywhere. We had a trainer but it's done nothing!! Send help!! I love her dearly and want to put the hard yards in but my husband is getting very annoyed 🙁
My heeler is about to turn 12 on November 3. She’s been obsessed with playing fetch, you can’t have a ball or frisbee in sight or she’ll put the the ball in front of u and just wait. Since she’s getting old I try to just play with her for about 10 minutes, and she loves to go for runs too. I guess you could say that’s her job, she also loves to run the yard and bark at anyone who comes near the front door 😂
You can come work with mine; she likes to nip. Actually, I am working with her on this.
I have a blue heeler. I have a hard time walking her. She pulls me really bad. I've tried everything sto get her to stop.
will you people stop gettong our dogs to stop nipping there Heelers its what*8 they do you are trying to create a hybrid very sad mine better god damn well nip or she will get kicked from hanging back get them effers biting
Thank you for your teaching and wonderful videos. I'm trying to learn as much as I can since tomorrow I'm going to get my puppy (6 months blue heeler)
The way your dog behaves is just awesome. You are a great trainer!!
Adopting a cattle dog rescue this week! She's about 1 year and did display some nipping while running around the yard at the shelter. Hopefully this will help.
I have a puppy Blue healer that has very dry skin and scratches alot, do you have any suggestions like what kind of shampoo to use or any thing else you recommend?
Thank you
Your awesome love the videos.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I just got my 8 week old Blue Heeler yesterday and appreciate the tips. Not my first B.H. just my first puppy. Last one was a rescue that was around 8 years when I got her. So she was mellow and trained well already. Thanks again.
Zoro (5 months old) and I are at an impass about Nipping. He is determined to play tug of war with anything that involves clothing (shirts) I am wearing. It's him or me at this point. His Trouble Nuggets are next if he doesn't stop it. He knows I'm serious, knows when he is misbehaving, but can't seem to resist challenging me to a tug. He is very careful not to actually bite me (It's close but the shirt is now trashed_. He is truly a wonderful dog.. but nipping will not be tolerated by me. He seems to be interviewing for a new master
Thank you!
I have a BC x and she nips me out of ´over excitement´ and gets in her ´
Red zone´ when I work with her.. Does this breed has this as well🤔🤔
I just got a heeler puppy he’s 8 weeks and we have been having problems with him biting we are being patient.
I’m really scared because I do have cats and hoping sense he’s growing with them he won’t hurt them. We are crate training I’m looking at ways to training him more I take hours he’s got potty training down already by taking him out every 30 min.
Love your channel❤
They are smart-they will Nip and then sit if thats how they are trained. nip sit nip sit. Thats what you're training them to do. put them down on their side. and make them lay there un til all muscles are relaxed. could take 20 mins make sure their head stays down. once they releax and stay that way without popping up when you let go, then you can tell tehm to get up. Makes it not worth theri while to nip
My 3year old cattle dog redirects and nips me when they get triggered by another dog or car passing.. she often rips my leggings. If i tell her to leave it and give a quick tug, that also triggers her to redirect at me. If I don’t do anything, she eventually gets triggered and nips me. If i start to walk away some times it works but most time she gets triggered anyway and nips me 😢 lost on how to prevent her from doing this… i admit I’m a but softer than my boyfriend and show her more affection but even when I don’t she seems to still do it anyway…
I have an Aussie/Corgi mix that I rescued at age 2 (almost 2). He was an owner surrender for supposedly escaping and digging out from under a fence multiple times and I believe they kept him outdoors because he was not housebroken. But the longer I have him, I think they turned him in for nipping strangers.
When I have him on a leash and someone approaches us, he will immediately sneak up behind the person and try to nip them on the back of their calf, down low. Only once has he succeeded at this because I didn't know what he was about to do, but he broke the skin on a woman's leg with about 4 of his teeth. It was superficial but it horrified me non the less.
I watch him now and jerk his lead when he goes to do it, but is this a herding thing or is it aggression? There is no warning at all. He just goes up behind them and nips. He is totally wary and I am aware this is part of the breed, but do I have to worry about him whenever we are around strangers? My own family in other states don't want me to bring him into their homes.
Brilliant Mamãe!!!
I'm from Brasil and my best friend is a Blue.
Tks a Lot!!! ❤😂
No jogging
Commemt your dogs name and breed.
How do you get them to stop biting and you try and take your hand away and tell them
No and they think it’s a game
I’ve tried multiple ways and my heeler hasn’t stopped and she mainly does it to me
Bummer with my heeler is she’s fully Deaf. Has been hard training her but I redirect to a toy (sign toy and grab it) and do stop sign with my hand. Lucky they’re smart. Lol
My husband and i just adopted a 2 year old that was pretty neglected, he is very sweet, very stubborn and loves to nip, im happy to have found this video, thanks for posting!
Your videos are really helping me, we had to take a family members heeler for personal reasons and she keeps making a mess and my father hates it to the point he says just to take her to the pound and i hate it, so i started looking up how to train heelers since it is my first time training a dog, i want the puppy to be happy so i found ypur channel, it helps alot
My 5, month old has almost 0 recall. How do i train her to recall?
My blue heeler is around 9 months old. We got him recently from a girl who has seizures and couldn’t take care of him.
I’m currently trying to train him to stop nipping and especially stop stealing food from my toddlers! Oh and jumping on them too!!
What the average age for puppy to start more intense training? I just got mine. He is 8 weeks
They are the worst looking cattle dogs i have seen for a while
Hope you are not breeding
We just got a ACD. He is 6 months old and it's challenging
How do I stop him from jumping on me?
How would you do this with a deaf ACD?