Meet the working dogs on a Sheepdog Experience in Yorkshire! Spend time at the working sheep farm near Bingley on the edge of Yorkshire’s Ilkley Moor, putting your shepherding skills to the test when you pair up with a four-legged doggy friend!
Your experience on this Yorkshire farm starts with a welcome from the sheepdogs and a brief explanation from their owners on the history of their use in agriculture. The dramatic local landscape is home to many farms and smallholdings that continue to use and preserve traditional methods of farming and shepherding using well-trained, faithful dogs.
You'll be in the capable hands of Barbara Sykes, who has been breeding, training and working with dogs all her life, is a formidable woman who has won multiple sheepdog trials and also runs the farm.
Once you know the background of sheepdog training, your experience takes you out into the Yorkshire landscape to begin learning the techniques for directing and instructing the dogs.
Now you've got a reasonable handle on the key calls, signs and whistles, you'll take on the herding challenge to guide a small flock of sheep around a course as neatly and quickly as possible, ably assisted by your trusty Collie sheepdog.
If you loved watching 'One Man and His Dog' on TV and have always wanted to know more about the fantastic skills and work that being a shepherd involves, then this experience is for you.
This sheepdog experience on Yorkshire's rugged moorland makes for a wonderfully windswept day out in the country and is sure to be a real treat for dog lovers of all ages.
