[McLynnan]

Absolutely agree that the herding instinct is very strong. Mine tries to herd people, other dogs and even the rabbits in the back yard. She stops the behavior on command thank goodness, but her instinct is to round them up. Your program sounds like fun “work”. I wear mine out with a three mile daily walk. She lives for it and is very obedient and well behaved. The daily exercise is the key.

[07Jack]

Our Belgian Malinois is always chasing our children around in our yard barking at them, presumably trying to round them up. Like yours, she will stop on command but until then, the instinct takes control. We were able to train her to “put the kids to bed” where she actually “herds” our kids (ages 8 & 10) up to their bedrooms and then lies in the hallway until they are asleep.