Eska, our dog, likes to chase sheep, its an issue we are working on and have seen great progress.
Update - 08/02/2016
So, i have decided to update the sheep saga as its pretty significant for a fell runners dog, chasing sheep is likely to get her shot by angry farmers and that's not what we want.
When we first got Eska from Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary http://www.bleakholt.org/
last year she was almost uncontrollable around sheep, certainly she had to be kept on a lead, but over the months we have slowly brought the negative behaviour under better control. She still chases sheep occasionally and only when she thinks i am not watching, but as soon as i recall her, she stops and returns to my side.
Often she looks at the sheep then at me and decides if she thinks she can get away with it, so its still a work in progress but i am confident that she will eventually get there. Many sheep will be pregnant now so Eska stays on her lead when we are likely to come across them and i often plan my running to avoid routes where we usually find them.
She is a Welsh Collie so i guess its in her breeding, her instincts even, but we'll keep working.
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