Was your dog born to herd?
Doing what comes naturally in her instinct test: This pup approaches the sheep without hesitation.
A natural herder shows how it's done: Border collie Cassie competing in national herding trial.
More breeds than you'd imagine will herd livestock—if you apply the training and time to rekindle their instincts. The American Herding Breed Association recognizes the breeds below as eligible for their programs and we've taught many of these breeds in our classes. The quickest way to gauge if your dog was born to herd would be to take our simple instinct test. We can test your dog at the beginning of any of our classes. |
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| Herding Breeds | |
| American Eskimo Australian Cattle Dog Australian Kelpie Australian Shepherd Bearded Collie Beauceron Belgian Malinois Belgian Sheepdog Belgian Tervuren Bernese Mountain Dog Border Collie Bouvier des Flandres Briard Canaan Dog Catahoula Collie (Rough & Smooth) Doberman Pinscher Dutch Shepherd English Shepherd Entlebucher German Shepherd Dog Giant Schnauzer |
Icelandic Sheepdog Keeshond Kerry Blue Terrier Lapphund McNab Norwegian Buhund Norwegian Elkhound Old English Sheepdog Polish Lowland Sheepdog Poodle Puli Rottweiler Samoyed Schipperke Sennenhund Shetland Sheepdog Swedish Valhund Tibetan Terrier Welsh Corgi (Cardigan & Pembroke) Wheaton Terrier and Mixed Breeds |
| If your dog's breed is listed, let's try an instinct test! | |
