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00:00Come on, bubby. He's down here to make them your mates.
00:02We know top bloodline Collie and Kelpie pups
00:06can be turned into champion muster dogs in just 12 months.
00:11Stop it!
00:12But can we train the trainers to do the same?
00:18Is that serious?
00:20Six novices with little dog training experience
00:24have taken their pups home
00:26and the experiment is officially underway.
00:31Some are smitten already.
00:33If I could have a man that looks at me the way Turner does.
00:38While others are still searching for that spark.
00:42Yeah, it's been soul-crushing
00:44and I don't feel like we're getting a great connection.
00:46The first milestone assessment is coming up fast.
00:50Going into the six-month assessment, it's nerve-wracking.
00:53Where am I?
00:55Yeah, can all go to pieces and then I'll fall to pieces as well.
00:58And for most, it's one paw forward, two paws back.
01:03Hang on away.
01:03She just gets a bit bored, you know?
01:05Like, what's the point of me being here?
01:06But our stressed-out trainers are not going it alone.
01:09It's time.
01:10Enter the Mentor Cavalry.
01:13Mick...
01:13Keep that excitement level up.
01:15Yep.
01:16Joe...
01:16Block him until he looks at it.
01:18And former Mustardogs contender, Joni Hall.
01:22G'day.
01:23Ooh!
01:23Whoa!
01:24He's better than Chad.
01:28There may be a bumpy road ahead.
01:31But we have faith there's a Mustardog champion trainer...
01:35Sick.
01:37Somewhere in there.
01:38Come on.
01:39Here.
01:40Good boy.
01:41Speed, speed.
01:44Oh, dear.
01:45There we are.
01:46What are we going to do with James?
01:49Go.
01:50Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
01:56Good.
01:56Good.
01:57Yeah.
02:01What are you doing?
02:02You've been working hard, have you?
02:03Good boy.
02:05Woo!
02:06Hey.
02:07Come.
02:18All right, you ready Alfie Gil?
02:20Time for a swim, I reckon.
02:23Summer is possibly the best time to bring a puppy home.
02:27With lots of daylight hours to bond.
02:31Oh, she's going again.
02:32Rock on!
02:33Indulging in all sorts of games and fun.
02:36What do you think?
02:37Knuckles?
02:37Ready?
02:38Let's go.
02:40In the past few months, our three border collie pups have doubled in size.
02:46Good boy.
02:47It's a puppy.
02:49Oh, get him.
02:50No, probably not under there.
02:52The growth rate of the three kelpies is slower, but they're likely to reach physical
02:57maturity sooner.
02:58Not a big fan of power tools.
03:01It should be noted, for both breeds, physical maturity does not equate to intellectual maturity.
03:08What are you doing?
03:10Ty, you're going to bring my fans.
03:12Doesn't look like something there.
03:14Which one?
03:15What's got you bothered, Boomer?
03:16Is it that cow?
03:18It must be.
03:21It won't move, will it?
03:24The cow just won't move.
03:28Ahead for our six puppies and their novice handlers is the first milestone assessment.
03:35As they were shown at the puppy boot camp, the tasks are the same as previous experiments.
03:41But they've had a bit longer to prepare.
03:43It's going to be pretty easy.
03:44Easily said but done.
03:48To continue in the experiment, they will all need to pass the majority of the following
03:53tasks.
03:54That's fantastic.
03:55Starting with presenting a healthy pup, bonded to their handler.
03:59She's going to be a great little cattle dog for you.
04:01Fairy, that'll do.
04:02Task two, the pup responding to its name.
04:05Stop.
04:06And able to be recalled.
04:09Task three, walking beside the handler on a loose lead.
04:14And finally, task four.
04:16Sorry buddy, try going the other way.
04:19Displaying a growing desire to work stock.
04:21Good boy.
04:23So, how are you all feeling about it?
04:26Awesome.
04:27Fantastic.
04:28So are we.
04:31One of our expert mentors will be at each location to watch the assessments.
04:36With Mick observing Shady Jane and Sam.
04:41And Joe with Ian and Max.
04:44Helping out with the West Australian contingent of Courtney and Rex.
04:49Is former Mustardogs participant and well-known cattle educator Joni Hall.
04:56And her Kelpie Chet.
04:58I'm honoured actually to be asked to be part of the program.
05:01But somewhat nervous and going up against Mick and Joe Spicer.
05:07You know, some of the leading dog trainers in the country.
05:11So, Courtney and Rex.
05:13They've drawn the short straw a little bit.
05:16It's ridiculous.
05:20But I do feel that I do have some things that I can show them to help them get by.
05:27And well, being a great mentor and everything, I've studied the assessment.
05:30So, I completely know what they're supposed to be doing.
05:35If not.
05:38What's that look for?
05:40Chet.
05:41Oh!
05:59In the central east of Queensland, it's been very hot and dry.
06:04On the Taroom grazing property of 29-year-old station hand Shady Jane.
06:10And her collie pup, Turner.
06:13So, looking at dry paddocks for a long time sure takes its toll on you.
06:17Billy, how buggy?
06:19The last decent rainfall we had was three and a half months ago.
06:24And that is really hitting us hard now.
06:28It is extremely dry.
06:31But Dad always tries to look to the right side of everything.
06:35Hey.
06:36He just tells me at the end of the day, our mental health is all that matters.
06:40And there's nothing we can do about the rain.
06:42So, we've just got to hang on and keep waiting and manage it the best we can.
06:48Do it!
06:49Do it!
06:50Do it!
06:52Do it!
06:53He's coming!
06:54Go little one!
06:55Run!
06:58It's still looking alright considering.
07:00Hanging on.
07:03While the weather has been a worry, Shady Jane has found a much needed distraction with her
07:09collie pup, Turner.
07:12He's such a smart dog and he's forever watching me even when I haven't got his attention.
07:18My tongue outside.
07:20So, if I could have a man that looks at me the way Turner does, I'd feel so loved.
07:26That would be the best feeling.
07:29You're a very big boy.
07:31He's just got nothing but love in his eyes, that dog.
07:34Dad just looks at us, shakes his head and he says, you're both just as mad as each other.
07:44He's very uncoordinated around the house yard.
07:49He's always bouncing around like he's airy fairy and has trouble finding his feet when
07:53he's running around.
07:54Good boy.
07:55But then when you put him in with sheep, it just switches in an instinct.
08:02His eyes are locked on, he's switched on and he has so much style and creep about him.
08:08It's pretty cool to watch the difference when he does switch on.
08:12Yeah.
08:20That'll do.
08:21That'll do.
08:25So, with a solid instinct on the stock, it would follow that Shady Jane is feeling confident
08:30about their first milestone assessment then.
08:33Right?
08:35Um, well.
08:37I'm absolutely shitting myself to be honest about first assessments.
08:43I've been very nervous for this day.
08:46Turner come.
08:47The task I would be most worried about would be his recall just because there's more distractions
08:54here today and Turner is a very social dog.
09:00Turner.
09:01Yeah, that's just got me a little bit worried I think.
09:04Yeah.
09:11Oh, here we go.
09:14I found it.
09:15Here, look.
09:15We've got three new messages.
09:17What's helping Shady Jane prepare is talking to the other participants in their group chat.
09:23I mentioned on there that I was having a lot of anxiety leading up to filming and Ian,
09:31he's brought a lot of wisdom to all of us, I think, especially with his, I'm not calling
09:38him old, I'm not calling you old Ian, but you do have a lot of wisdom, which has sort
09:43of helped me calm my nerves a little bit.
09:46He said, when you get to my stage in life, you have lots of perspective about stuff going
09:52wrong.
09:53You'll learn from it and this too shall pass.
09:56This is one of those bizarre positive life experiences that has dropped in our laps, completely
10:01outside of my normal world.
10:03What an experience to look back at, however it goes.
10:10What are you going to tell them back, boy?
10:26It's crutching time on the New South Wales Nundal sheep farm of principal turned pupil, Ian.
10:33So hopefully Burruma likes them better now, that they've all had a nice haircut.
10:38That should make all the difference for him.
10:40They should look a lot better.
10:43The 50-year-old suspected he wasn't working his dogs correctly.
10:47Steady on there.
10:48But the reality of taking on a new set of training rules with Kelpie pup Burruma is proving a
10:54big mountain to climb.
10:56What?
10:57I guess you don't know what you don't know until you're suddenly introduced to it and
11:03this is a whole new process.
11:05It's a different way, different set of instructions and I am very far from expert in this and I'm
11:12sure that's going to be evident.
11:13The sheep are jamming up against the fence.
11:16I might not be young but I'm a novice so I'm going to excuse myself from making mistakes.
11:22Everyone else might not but I'm going to excuse myself so that'll make it much easier.
11:27Hello Shandy.
11:29Good girl.
11:32As a lifelong learner, Ian is working through what's not going as well as it should with
11:38regular calls to mentor Joe.
11:41They're right to go now which is really good.
11:43I think being consistent is a challenge because I have to go away for meetings and then it's
11:48that, you know, that sort of hand-wringing that I haven't done anything with him but I
11:52don't want to push too hard too early and go too fast with things so he's a little bit
11:58raw at the moment.
11:59Booruma back here.
12:01Oi.
12:03Booruma's prior knowledge is his instinct that he's been bred with and I've got to get
12:08his attention before I can activate that and get him understanding that me calling your
12:13name is you coming to me.
12:15Come on.
12:17No.
12:18So yeah, I'd say, you know, 85% of the time we're pretty good but, you know, who's great
12:23100% of the time?
12:24Nobody.
12:25I'll tell you what mate, it's lucky that you're a good looking dog.
12:30Sit.
12:32Sit.
12:33Booruma.
12:34Come on.
12:35Hey.
12:36While training Booruma is testing Ian's patience, he's super fond of his new companion most of
12:43the time.
12:44Haven't even used the track for the day.
12:46I can see actually some human qualities in Booruma.
12:50He's the sort of guy you would actually want to have along to a party I think.
12:54He's good fun.
12:55He enjoys himself.
12:56Oop.
12:57We've run back into hiding again.
13:04He's gone Booruma.
13:07I had left a rock melon out the back.
13:09Somebody else has found it before I did.
13:12He's nice.
13:13He hasn't got, um, he's not an aggressive dog around others or, or, or people.
13:18So he's great to have around.
13:20But, uh, I could almost describe him though as that annoying little cousin with the other
13:25dogs.
13:26Because he just wants to play with the older dogs and they are very, very tolerant of him.
13:32But he's licking faces and things like that.
13:34So I'm trying to get him to stop that because I don't want them to, um, get aggressive with
13:39him.
13:39There's gonna be a lot of trouble here shortly I think.
13:42If he can't stop, you can leave other dogs alone.
13:47I suppose.
13:48Round that up instead.
13:50Want a drink?
13:51Here.
13:52Good boy.
13:53And in Booruma's eyes there is no reason for any water container to have any water in it
13:58whatsoever.
14:00That just shouldn't be.
14:01So when you wake up in the morning and, and your container's there and it's full of water,
14:06the chief objective is to get that water out of that container.
14:09Oh, Booruma.
14:11Oh, you know, tip all of that out everywhere.
14:16And that involves a couple of things.
14:18It's scrabbling at it, but mainly barking at it because that, of course, will get the,
14:22the water out.
14:23What's this all about?
14:24Yeah.
14:25So that's the, the world according to Booruma.
14:29So apparently we're finished with that, so there should be no water in it anymore.
14:37Come on.
14:39Lots of new smells on that grass at the moment.
14:42Come up.
14:43Good boy.
14:43Steady.
14:44So, with a lot to work on, Ian's not sure how he and Booruma will go today in front of
14:51their mentor, Joe.
14:52Yeah.
14:53When it comes to, you know, six month assessment, I'm feeling some trepidation about, I know
14:58that he can do it all.
14:59This is the thing.
15:00Booruma.
15:00No, come here.
15:01We're leaving that one.
15:02We're leaving that one.
15:04Booruma.
15:05But what Joe's going to say, I don't know.
15:07I feel parts of things are okay, but that's what this process is about.
15:12It's about learning and getting some new skills that I can then apply later on.
15:15But as long as I don't muck it up for Booruma, that's the main thing, because he's got
15:18everything going for him.
15:19Muggins here may not, so yeah.
15:22Are you ready for your assessment?
15:25Good boy.
15:43What's the time, Mr. Wolfe?
15:44The time is 8.54, Mr. Wolfe.
15:48Not dinner time yet.
15:50About 100 kilometres north, life is also hectic for 28-year-old cattle grazier Sam and his
15:58collie, Captain.
15:59Did a good job?
16:01Good boy.
16:01You did.
16:02High five.
16:07The family have just moved to a property up the road from his parents' grazing farm at
16:12Wolfe, New South Wales.
16:14That's all the boxes.
16:15We've wanted to expand the business and Laura and I wanted our own place.
16:20So we'll succession plan into owning the place, or owning the debt.
16:26You can put this in your rent.
16:29It still gives us a bit more self-reliance to do the stuff that we want to do here and
16:35set it up how we want and run it.
16:38Yeah, as we wish.
16:43Are you going to help me?
16:45Yeah.
16:45I'm in the buggy.
16:46Maybe in the buggy.
16:48In the buggy.
16:48You can do it in the buggy.
16:50Me too.
16:51With time and a premium, Sam often takes along two-year-old daughter, Ali.
16:56Come on, Captain.
16:58When training his big collie pup, Captain.
17:02Unwrap yourself.
17:03Ah!
17:04Captain, ouch!
17:07Ah!
17:07Hey!
17:12So, Captain, he's very goofy at times.
17:15He's very, like, gentle and quiet and he's just, he's always by his side, just walk around
17:20just sniffing things.
17:21But then, just, I don't know, he gets the wind up his bum, he'll grab a hold of a rag,
17:25he'll tear it around, tossing it in the air and have a ball and loves playing with Ali
17:31and she'll chase him.
17:33Come on, Captain.
17:35Oh, Captain's my favourite.
17:38Now, walk in now.
17:40Also, Captain and the cat still have a love-hate relationship.
17:45Captain just wants to muster her, I think, all day long and she will either ignore him
17:50or get up him.
17:52Dad might have to get rid of the cat.
17:55Oh, there he goes.
17:56Push him out.
17:57Sam believes his gentle giant, Captain, will do well in the assessment.
18:02Except for the task that seems to spook everyone.
18:05Captain, come here.
18:07Come here.
18:08Captain!
18:09Come here.
18:11Why couldn't you have done that earlier?
18:12Yeah.
18:13The recall coming when called is the one I'm most nervous about.
18:16I know he can do it and he does it really well most of the time.
18:21Captain.
18:21Come on.
18:22Oi.
18:24Captain.
18:25Oh.
18:25There you go.
18:26Captain.
18:27Come on.
18:30What are you doing?
18:31Are you going to wander off?
18:36Go back.
18:37Go back, Raven.
18:41What's been an eye-opener for Sam is how well the new training techniques are working with
18:46his other dogs.
18:47Push him out, Raven.
18:49I've definitely over-commanded my dogs.
18:51I've worked out that, especially Raven, I've made her so robotic.
18:55She's always waiting for that next command and she'll get halfway through something and
18:59wait for me to tell her again.
19:01Hey, Raven.
19:02Raven.
19:04Raven, come here.
19:05So, she's come leaps and bounds with me not talking and just using my body language
19:11and she is becoming a cracking dog and it's been really nice to see that.
19:16We're going to take him in.
19:17Keep it simple.
19:19Come here.
19:19Get up.
19:20Alright.
19:21Ready?
19:22Come here, Polly.
19:24But it has been a clash when I've had to work with Dad's dogs because they want to
19:28work one way and my dogs are trying to work a different way.
19:31Come here to me.
19:33Polly.
19:33Sam, you might have to back back a bit with that dog bark.
19:38Yeah, we're going to have to find some balance.
19:40Yeah.
19:43Captain, what's your issue today?
19:45Too used to wanting to go in.
20:01Yeah.
20:03Summer on King Island Tasmania sounds like a dream for 29-year-old station hand Max and
20:11kelpie pup Roxy.
20:13Yeah, it's beautiful down here and on my homestead I've got this big pear tree and got a few
20:19apple trees as well.
20:20Hey, girls.
20:21Doing some pest control for me?
20:23Howdy, girls.
20:24You know, I've got my veggie patch going so I've got plenty of things to harvest and
20:29things to keep me busy.
20:34Pretty much eat anything in this spot.
20:38Oh, yeah.
20:41Plenty of beaches down here as well so, yeah, it's a great time of year to be down in King
20:46Island because, yeah, winter's not so nice but, yeah, the summer's beautiful and, yeah.
20:52Yeah.
20:53Yeah.
20:54Yeah.
20:54Yeah.
20:55Roxy.
20:56Yeah.
20:57Hey.
20:58Alright.
21:00You okay?
21:00Yeah.
21:01It's a shame then things aren't going better with his female kelpie pup Roxy.
21:07Roxy.
21:08She's a very strong independent female.
21:10You know, she doesn't look up to me for a lot of guidance.
21:13She thinks she knows what to do all the time, so.
21:15Roxy.
21:17I wouldn't say Roxy's bossing me around.
21:19I do think I have her covered but I guess I've always struggled with females so I think
21:25that's kind of been a bit of a challenge.
21:27Yeah, you're a movie star.
21:29And having a working dog was a different dynamic for me from having a pet and I was
21:34just finding it hard to find a balance of fun and work I guess with her.
21:40Yeah, I didn't feel like we were getting a great connection for a while there but decided
21:45to introduce more fun stuff.
21:47What's this?
21:48You know, go to the beach, have a run around, play in the water or tug of war.
21:52We started developing a bit more of a connection.
21:56Yeah, I think we're on a pretty good track now.
21:58She always likes to be with me and that.
22:01But still, she's just a serious dog so I can explain it.
22:06She's just ready to work I guess, yeah.
22:11Despite struggling with the very serious Roxy, Max is mostly upbeat about how they'll go
22:20in the six month assessment.
22:21Yeah!
22:23I'm pretty confident with the loose lead walk, the recall, the connection.
22:27Yeah, I think we got all that covered.
22:32The instinct, it's not very controlled at the moment.
22:36Roxy, Roxy.
22:37And then she also is a bit aggressive with the sheep I guess.
22:40She kind of picked up a few bad habits.
22:43Hey, here's go.
22:44She's full of desire but she has been lacking a bit of discipline.
22:49So, should get a pass with that but I'm not too sure.
22:53How do you think you went little one?
22:55Yeah, I think I'm just really hanging on for Joe to come down and give me some pointers
23:01and trying to fix the problems that I've been dealing with.
23:04So, yeah.
23:06Really looking forward to it.
23:07You've been working like a dog, haven't you?
23:12With no prior exposure to working dogs.
23:15Big day for Roxy.
23:17Max is the group's least experienced participant.
23:20Roxy.
23:21And the difficulty of turning Roxy into a champion muster dog in just one year
23:26is starting to sink in.
23:28Come on.
23:29Come on.
23:30Yeah, being a first time trainer, it just kind of seems straightforward.
23:33You know, you do a block here, block there, pull the dog up and there you go.
23:38It's going to be all sweet.
23:39But, yeah, when we finally got her in shape, it was nothing like that.
23:43That'll do.
23:44That'll do.
23:45Good job.
23:46Yeah, I've been struggling with not having much control of any situation.
23:50Yeah, it's very frustrating for me and kind of soul-crushing.
23:54And, you know, you think you've got the answers, but then you don't.
24:00I feel like as the training progresses, it kind of gets more likely
24:04that I'm not going to get control of the situation at all.
24:06But I try and force it and force it and I kind of dig myself a hole
24:11and it all just kind of turns to shit.
24:16I've lost a lot of confidence, I guess, and, yeah,
24:20I've just got to keep working at it and trying to figure it out.
24:23So, yeah, it's very hard.
24:30While summer in most parts of the country is pretty fabulous...
24:42..for 24-year-old Rex...
24:44Yeah, she's hot.
24:46..who lives in WA's tropical north with Kelpie pup Alfie,
24:50it's a kind of hell.
24:54So, up here in the tropics, it's 35 degrees,
24:58but it's about 90% humidity.
25:01It gets sticky and sweltering.
25:04Can't do anything because your shirt just gets drenched in sweat.
25:08Well, yeah, you're all the good dogs, aren't you?
25:09It's a bit tougher on the dogs as well,
25:11so we have pools of water for them to swim in
25:15and I only work in very short durations.
25:17It's nice to me.
25:19Just two, three minutes.
25:21And then, as well as that, is wet season,
25:24which is when we get all of our rain.
25:26Oh, great. Much rain in love.
25:28Yeah.
25:28It's not easy, but we get through it.
25:34With the caravan park closed for the wet season...
25:40..rex, his Kelpie pup Alfie,
25:43and the rest of the dog team have been on a long road trip.
25:46It's just a bit hot, isn't it?
25:48You're doing good.
25:50Unfortunately, Alfie came back looking unwell.
25:53Good girl.
25:55She wasn't in such a great way,
25:56so I took her straight into the vet and got her checked out
26:00and it turned out that she had a bout of canine coronavirus,
26:02which I didn't know existed.
26:04Here she comes, here she comes.
26:06Yay!
26:07But, thankfully, she got better.
26:09She spent a few days at the vet.
26:10Everyone in the vet said they loved her.
26:12She was so bubbly and smiley,
26:14despite being a bit under the weather.
26:17Yeah, that's good. She'll sleep well again.
26:19She's up.
26:20Back to full health,
26:21and Alfie was soon eager to start rounding things up again.
26:26You're in a crazy mode still, don't you?
26:27You're still a puppy.
26:28She's a wild, independent dog,
26:30where she'll run around, she'll chase bugs, she'll chase birds.
26:34She doesn't care about getting rolled.
26:36She just goes, like, full on.
26:37Yeah, how are you?
26:38Part of me really stresses a little bit over that,
26:42just that I don't want her to be hurt
26:44and then lose the passion for it.
26:47But I think she's the type of dog where it won't matter.
26:50She just loves it so much that she'll just keep going.
26:56It's frustrating.
26:58But now that she has hit a bit more of a growth spurt,
27:01I've had some minor issues with the trainer mob.
27:03The goats have just gotten a bit boring for her.
27:06We go in the yard and we do the same thing,
27:07and she's like, oh, what do you want me to do?
27:09These goats are already following you.
27:10Like, what's the point of me being here?
27:12What'd that one do?
27:13Ooh.
27:13It's fair enough.
27:14Like, I completely understand.
27:15And, hey, Alfie, don't run away.
27:19I think she just loses a bit of interest.
27:22Alfie.
27:23Which is quite concerning.
27:26But...
27:27Oh, no, I'm going to have to go and get her again.
27:30Oh, jeez.
27:33Hey.
27:35Come on.
27:36A willingness to pivot when things aren't working out
27:39is where Rex feels his strengths lie as a dog trainer.
27:43I am trying to develop my own personal philosophy about working dogs.
27:47Good girl.
27:48Having trained with some of the best trainers in Australia, really,
27:52I think it's all about taking little things from each person
27:55and developing your own style from that.
27:58I recently watched the show Ted Lasso
28:01and took a lot out of that as well.
28:03It's very strong leadership qualities.
28:05He has a lot of things in there that are very subtle
28:07but work well for leading a team
28:09and allowing them to be free in making decisions,
28:13making mistakes and learning from it.
28:15And I think that's where I'm at with Alfie at the minute.
28:17I'm empowering her to be herself.
28:20Alfie.
28:20Let's see.
28:21But there's also some limits of how she can be herself
28:25and what she can do.
28:27Good dogs, eh? Good dogs.
28:29That was easy.
28:31Rex is hoping to validate his methods
28:33with a good result in the first milestone assessment.
28:36Good girl.
28:38I think, on the bonding side of things, I think we're good.
28:41Instinct on stock.
28:42Plenty of instinct.
28:43Plenty of instinct.
28:44The loose lead walk, I really hope she's going to be fine
28:47because we do it literally every single day
28:49and I'm going to be so annoyed if she can't do it.
28:53But, yeah, recall might be a challenge.
28:55Alfie to me.
28:55She's good when she's not distracted.
28:58You're always causing trouble.
29:00Ah, so hopefully we can get all the distractions away
29:03when we do the test.
29:06Alfie.
29:07Oh, almost.
29:14A bit over 2,500 kilometres down the west coast,
29:18temperatures are consistently in the high 30s
29:21on the sprawling property at Wellstead
29:24of 32-year-old Courtney and her collie Blossom.
29:28Blossom.
29:31Good girl.
29:33And while not much sheep work is going on,
29:36there's still never enough hours in the day.
29:38Good dog, lovely dog.
29:39There's been a lot happening, actually.
29:41My son's homeschooling has got a bit more intense
29:44being year one.
29:45There's a lot more work.
29:46And then my sweet little baby, who was quiet and used to sit still,
29:52has now turned into a toddler.
29:53And he's wreaking havoc.
29:55Wait.
29:56Wait.
29:57Yep.
29:58Wait.
29:59Wait.
30:01Mom.
30:02Mom.
30:03What?
30:03Get me out.
30:05Rudy.
30:05So, we've been very busy.
30:08And I've been trying to squeeze in as much bonding and puppy work
30:13and dog work as I can.
30:15So, it seems like we never stop.
30:21Blossom, come.
30:22Blossom, come.
30:24The bold nature of her collie pup, Blossom, has taken Courtney by surprise.
30:29To be honest, in the beginning I was intimidated about how strong Blossom was.
30:34This is better, believe it or not.
30:36It used to take me five minutes just to catch it.
30:37I didn't know if I could handle a lot of it.
30:40I do like to joke and say I've got myself a black and white kelpie.
30:44Blossom.
30:46Yes.
30:46Hello.
30:48Sit.
30:49Sit.
30:50Nope.
30:51But she's actually taught me a lot and I'm very grateful that she is the way she is
30:56because it's something that I've been missing in my dogs.
31:00Like, I've got them all the same and it's nice to have one that's...
31:02Blossom, with me.
31:03...gonna bring something different to the team.
31:06So, yeah, I'm excited.
31:17Oh, no!
31:18Yay!
31:19Falling!
31:21The sun is beautiful.
31:24The hide's coming in.
31:27She's going to the toilet.
31:29Perfect shot, right?
31:30Yeah.
31:32A different kind of dog has meant a different approach to training.
31:37100 miles an hour.
31:39Yeah, I've learnt in the last couple of months to just trust her and work with her as a team
31:45and, you know, not try to overpower her or tell her what to do.
31:50They're bred for this and I just need to harness her and work with it rather than overpower her.
31:56So, yeah, once I started kind of just working with her and not trying to change her personality
32:02or mould her into something she wasn't, it's been really good.
32:06We've been just shooting along.
32:08It's been great, actually.
32:11OK.
32:14But I think I'm still feeling a bit nervous about hitting those assessments.
32:20Stop.
32:21Stop.
32:22Because with other dogs previously, if they weren't getting something or able to get something,
32:27you would just kind of wait them out.
32:28And now it's like, oh, I can't just wait.
32:32Like, she has to come when she's gone.
32:35So, it's been a bit nerve-wracking.
32:38Get off.
32:39Get off.
32:40Steady.
32:41I think the stock work will be easy.
32:44She's...
32:45Stop.
32:45She's got a lot of instinct and a lot of drive.
32:48With me.
32:48With me.
32:49But walking on the lead, she's very busy mentally.
32:53She likes to look at everything.
32:55With me.
32:55She has to see everything, suss out everything.
32:57And so, it's been hard to try and get her to just focus on me and walk with me.
33:03Hey, hey, hey, hey.
33:04Oi, oi.
33:05With me.
33:07Blossom.
33:12Stop.
33:13Stop.
33:13Healy.
33:14And the best thing about the coming assessment is who's about to arrive as Courtney's mentor.
33:21I'm super excited for Joni Hall to be my mentor.
33:24Oh, yeah.
33:25She'll turn me into a badass stock woman, for sure.
33:28Yeah.
33:30Come on, Sheik.
33:31Where do you want to go?
33:32Where are we going to take them?
33:34Where are they going to go?
33:34Yeah, I think that she's going to teach me so much.
33:38And help me and Blossom just...
33:40Blossom.
33:40Yeah.
33:43It's cheesy, isn't it?
33:55Our three road trip loving expert dog trainers, Mick, Joe and Joni are on their way.
34:04And hopefully we're not going to get involved getting there.
34:08They'll be on hand to observe the six-month milestone assessment tasks.
34:13Then stick around for a coaching session to iron out any issues impeding progress.
34:19How are you?
34:19How are you?
34:20Mick is mentor to collie handlers Shady-Jane with Turner.
34:24Turner, come.
34:25Miss, how you going?
34:26And grazier, Sam, with Captain.
34:28How are you going, Captain?
34:29I've been growing since we've seen him at the school.
34:33Joe is visiting Ian with Kelpie Booruma.
34:36Yeah, welcome to Nundel, the beautiful foothills of the Liverpool Plains.
34:40Then all the way to King Island to see Max and Roxy.
34:44Come on.
34:44You're running away.
34:45Sure it is.
34:47Troublemaker, aren't you?
34:48Who?
34:53Joanie is looking after the Western Australian contingent of Rex with Kelpie Alfie.
34:59Team Red.
35:00Two Spicer dogs.
35:02Two Spicer dogs.
35:03I wonder if they're related.
35:05Welcome.
35:07And Courtney with Collie Blossom.
35:10Let me have a look at you.
35:12Ah, this is Blossom.
35:13She's nice and healthy.
35:15She's a smoocher.
35:17Yeah.
35:19No idea.
35:22So, the six month assessment can now begin.
35:26Turner, Booruma, Blossom, Roxy, Captain and Alfie.
35:32That's it.
35:33Good dog.
35:34Have a scratch.
35:35And their nervous handlers.
35:36Take a deep breath before we start.
35:39Face four milestone tasks.
35:42Alfie.
35:43Good girl.
35:44Yeah, we'll see how it all looks and give a little bit of support and help.
35:48But, we're six months into this.
35:50So, we have to take them to a new level.
35:51And the only way to do that is let it stop being a pup and turn into a dog.
35:55The first task is presenting a healthy pup bonded to its handler.
36:00I'd still choose you again, hey.
36:03Good boy.
36:04They're all in great shape.
36:07Roxy.
36:08And if the bond exists, the handler's voice will command eye contact from the pup for at
36:13least a few seconds.
36:14Oh, my God.
36:16I'm so bloody nervous.
36:20As seen here with Shady Jane and Turner.
36:22Turner.
36:24Boy.
36:26Turner.
36:27Good boy.
36:28Good boy.
36:29Good boy.
36:30Yeah, lovely bond.
36:31Looking great.
36:31Oh, thanks, love.
36:42Good boy.
36:57Good girl.
36:59Good girl.
37:00Well, that was pretty good.
37:01Cheers.
37:03Yeah.
37:04Roxy.
37:05But Max is struggling with Roxy.
37:08Roxy.
37:09Roxy.
37:10Yeah.
37:12It's a fail.
37:14You're holding her attention for a period and then she loses focus.
37:18So, what we can do just to keep her attention a little bit longer is use our hand movement
37:22as well.
37:22You can see how she's anticipating the hand coming into it.
37:26We're using the lead and we're using our hand as well.
37:28So, try using everything together.
37:30Roxy.
37:30That's it.
37:33That's fantastic.
37:36Sam, with Collie, Captain.
37:38Captain.
37:38Alfie.
37:38And Rex, with Kelpie, Alfie, are making it look easy with great eye contact.
37:44Captain.
37:45What are you doing?
37:45You're coming over a smooch.
37:47Yeah.
37:49Task two.
37:50Responding to name or recall.
37:53Very important that that dog comes when he's called for safety.
37:57Everything.
37:58A recall is most important.
38:00Might go jump in the tree.
38:01I'm going to draw first before we start.
38:02Eager to get out of the baking Queensland sun.
38:05It's 38 degrees here.
38:06So, let's go and get into this.
38:09Can I come?
38:10Turner comes quickly when called.
38:13Good boy.
38:14Here, Burma.
38:15Burma hasn't always been the most obedient student.
38:19Good boy.
38:20But does what he's told this time when sent to the principal.
38:23Blossom.
38:24Come.
38:24Not to be outdone.
38:26Here.
38:26Here.
38:26A couple of easy passes for both Blossom and Roxy.
38:31Sit.
38:32Sit.
38:33Mmm.
38:34Definitely need to work on that.
38:36Captain.
38:39Distractions.
38:39Captain, come here.
38:41Was that a bit of sheep's poo?
38:43Yeah.
38:45It's not looking good for Sam and Captain.
38:49Captain.
38:50Captain, come here.
38:53Be a bit firmer.
38:54You're right.
38:55Captain.
38:55Come here.
38:57Keep going.
38:58And then change your tone of voice.
39:00Call him.
39:01Captain, come here.
39:03The result isn't what they'd hoped.
39:05Come here.
39:06Turb.
39:08Oh, jeez.
39:09Alfie.
39:11Alfie.
39:11Rex, too, is having trouble with Alfie.
39:14Where you going?
39:15Where you going?
39:18Alfie.
39:19Hey, good dog.
39:20It's a fail.
39:22Almost.
39:22But Joanie feels all is not lost.
39:26It's good that you're waiting until she actually sees you before you're calling her, so you're
39:30not just making a blank and ignorant to her name.
39:33Task three.
39:35The loose lead walk.
39:36It's actually a lot harder than it looks.
39:39Do you want me to go with the lead?
39:41This milestone shows if the handlers have established themselves as the alpha.
39:46By setting the pace of the walk and having the pups fall into steps.
39:50She's going really well.
39:52Without pulling on the rope.
39:54Looking good.
39:56Or trying to run away.
39:58Looking good, buddy.
40:00Walking really well.
40:03They'll eventually have to master this one without the lead.
40:06But for now, it's passes all round.
40:10Nothing wrong with that in my eyes.
40:12Lead better than Chet.
40:13What can I say?
40:17Chet would like a second opinion on that.
40:21The fourth and final task is growing desire to work.
40:25Perhaps the most vital component of a pup's ability to herd animals.
40:29So we'll be having a look at that strong drive to basically see something moving and block it or chase
40:36it.
40:36But it's the same cycle with everyone when they start off.
40:40They all try to over control their dogs and work too much on the obedience and therefore strip some of
40:46the instinct out.
40:49Shady Jane has been impressed with her pup on stop.
40:54But isn't sure if Mick will feel the same.
40:57Tana, come.
41:00Sit.
41:01Sit.
41:03Well done, Shady.
41:05Thanks, Nick.
41:06Tana.
41:08Beautiful.
41:11That'll do.
41:12That'll do.
41:13Nothing wrong with the instinct there, mate.
41:15Our Queensland duo have now completed the six month assessment.
41:19And it's been a brilliant performance with a clean sweep across all tasks.
41:24It has been a bloody massive day.
41:28I am absolutely exhausted.
41:31I'm ready for bed.
41:33But yes, I'm very proud of Tana.
41:35I think he did extremely well.
41:37Good boy.
41:38He's had a pretty bloody good day.
41:43Ian and Burrima's turn.
41:45Right.
41:46Get a little bit settled there, Burrima.
41:48Good boy.
41:49There's plenty of desire.
41:50Go right away.
41:52Good boy.
41:54Okay.
41:54But also signs of potential problems down the track.
41:58We noticed that he wasn't getting around the stock really well on his clockwise side.
42:03But these are all common mistakes, Ian, that everyone makes.
42:06But he's going well.
42:07And he's nice and keen, mate.
42:09Well done.
42:10Righto.
42:11Yep.
42:11As a school teacher, Ian's normally the one giving out the report cards.
42:16So it's a good thing that this one has a lot of green ticks.
42:20A plus, Ian.
42:22Look, I think Burrima did quite well.
42:25I probably didn't set him up as well as I could have done.
42:28But look, he's definitely got a huge amount of instinct.
42:32So now it's time for some, you know, a lot of finessing and getting that sorted out.
42:37So that's what Joanie's going to do for me.
42:41Courtney and Blossom have had a good run so far.
42:45Ooh, whoa!
42:46Good job, good dog.
42:48But Joanie can't believe what she's seeing.
42:51So the assessment was just instinct, you know that, right?
42:55No, yeah, no.
42:56As the black and white collie shows how advanced she is for her age.
43:01Good, lovely dog.
43:02She's doing very, very well.
43:04And she's actually thinking about what she's doing, you know.
43:07But, yeah, the assessment was just instinct and I think she's got that.
43:11Yeah?
43:11We could take that one off the box.
43:13Cheers!
43:16If Blossom continues to bloom like this, I think we can expect big things from these two.
43:23How are you feeling?
43:24I'm feeling pretty stoked.
43:26Yeah, very happy with her.
43:28Well, I would be too.
43:30Yep, that's good, mate.
43:31Showing a nice little bit of instinct there.
43:34Max and Roxy are next.
43:36Keep talking to her.
43:37Good girl.
43:38Talk to her.
43:38Good girl, Roxy.
43:39Good girl, good girl.
43:41Little bit of eye there with the head down low.
43:44It's a bit frenetic to watch.
43:46Right, pressure.
43:48Roxy's coming in way too close.
43:50Right, now release, release.
43:52But her desire to work is intact.
43:54Good girl, Roxy, good girl!
43:56That's fantastic.
43:57You definitely haven't taken instinct out.
43:59So, Team Tasmania are finishing the assessment with three passes and one fail.
44:05Plenty of instinct there, mate.
44:06Nothing to worry about there.
44:07Yeah, definitely relieved to get him over with.
44:09Bit unconventional, but it's probably a true reflection of how, I mean, Roxy are going,
44:13I reckon, at the moment.
44:14So, yeah, couldn't ask for anything more, I guess.
44:20Time for the captain's run.
44:21Get in the circle.
44:23Boy.
44:24Push him up.
44:25Come on.
44:27Push him up.
44:29Dog's doing a great job getting them off the fence.
44:32Push him up, Captain.
44:32With plenty of instinct on display.
44:34Well done, mate.
44:36Sam and Captain have steadied the ship right at the end of the assessment.
44:41How long have you been training dogs for, Sam?
44:43You look like you've been doing it forever, mate.
44:46How you going?
44:47Good brother.
44:48There's still some polish needed on the recall, but it's a good result overall.
44:53That's enough.
44:54Yeah.
44:54Had a little rocky start with the recall, but...
44:57Come on.
44:58No, I was really happy with how he went in the round yard, just covering the sheep,
45:02and he just worked them really well.
45:04Don't tell anyone I patted you.
45:06The final team to give it a go are Rex and Alfie.
45:09Here.
45:10Alfie.
45:12With Alfie previously becoming a little bored with the goats, Rex has to work quickly
45:17to fire up her desire to work.
45:19Good girl.
45:20Good girl.
45:20That's it.
45:21There you go.
45:22Good work.
45:24Good work.
45:25Good work.
45:25She needs a lot of encouragement.
45:27Yeah.
45:28Get that wacko.
45:28Get that wacko.
45:29But she's eyeing her stop, so the instinct is definitely there.
45:33That's it.
45:34Good work.
45:35Yeah.
45:35And with clearer direction from Rex, the movement around stock will improve.
45:41Good job.
45:42Yeah.
45:43Having narrowly avoided a second fail on their report card, Rex and Alfie have passed the
45:50six-month assessment.
45:51That was not perfect.
45:52Perfect.
45:59It's been a long day.
46:01But while it's all still fresh, the mentors are sticking around for a quick coaching session.
46:08To help iron out the issues brought up in the assessment.
46:11Oh, thanks, Mick.
46:14Cheers.
46:15Turner, come.
46:16Yeah, Shady, you've got a beautiful bond with him.
46:19Like, I could not fault that.
46:21Shady Jane's great result today can be attributed to her bond with Turner.
46:26But the nature of that needs to change.
46:29But from six months on, we've got to try and stop the, I love you mate, you're my good
46:34boy and I'm patting you all the time, because I think you'll come too bonded to you.
46:38Yep.
46:39We've got to try and start to mature them, because we've only got 12 months.
46:43Yep.
46:44Mick had intended their mental lesson to be all about Shady Jane putting voice commands
46:49on Turner.
46:51Round is in a clockwise direction, and back is an anti-clockwise direction.
46:56Yep.
46:57Round.
46:59Shady, you've got to keep repeating the word.
47:01If you just say it once, he's not getting the opportunity to maintain it.
47:06Round.
47:07Round.
47:08But he soon notices something else.
47:11Stop.
47:12Stop.
47:14A lot of people try and cover up for dogs' weaknesses, because they don't want you to
47:17see them.
47:18And I just noticed that Shady Jane was covering for the dog when she had to get the dog off
47:22stock.
47:23Good boy.
47:23And I can see you bending over and trying to get him, because you're worried that he's
47:26going to take off on you.
47:28I've tried to explain the Shady, but that's a good thing.
47:30If I can see weaknesses or faults, we can fix them.
47:34But if you want to cover them up, I don't know they're there.
47:37Don't bend over.
47:38Good boy.
47:38That'll do.
47:38He's got to get used to coming off stock and staying off stock.
47:42That'll do.
47:42Mick, yeah, you can't put anything past him.
47:45So, yeah, Mick wants me to not lean forward and lean over when I'm getting a recall from
47:52him.
47:52Sort of just keep my body posture upright without lowering myself down to block him if he wants
48:00to sort of go back to the stock.
48:03Stop.
48:04That's okay.
48:05But Mick was very proud that I could get Turner to walk in and approach stock without having
48:11to be on a lead.
48:12So, that made me very happy that Mick noticed that.
48:17Yep.
48:19Dan and Tazzy.
48:20When you're ready, let her off and we'll give that a go.
48:22Yep.
48:23Joe wants Max to see that establishing himself as a leader begins with getting Roxy's attention.
48:29So, one thing I'm going to start doing is walking into her personal space like that.
48:36Then making it clear where he wants her to be.
48:39So, she starts realising, there, see how she's moving straight, that she can't be in my space.
48:46See how I made her move sideways there, coming out to the middle.
48:49So, there, she's picked that up straight away.
48:51Good girl.
48:51And that's fantastic.
48:53Once Roxy is paying attention, other instructions can follow.
48:57Good girl.
48:57Good girl.
48:58So, we can see that she's going anti-clockwise each time.
49:01So, now we'll try and get her to go clockwise.
49:03I'm just saying, don't be in my space.
49:06Yeah.
49:07Good girl.
49:07We tried the recall to come.
49:10That'll do.
49:10But she just showed us, no, I'm not quite up to that yet.
49:13So, that's okay.
49:14We'll just go and get her.
49:15So, Max is a first time trainer and struggling a little bit, but a lot of people struggle at
49:20start.
49:21It's just part of the process.
49:22There, she thought about coming around too quickly and you've got to anticipate that.
49:26The cycle is always the same.
49:28There's a lot of self-doubt.
49:29There's a lot of anxiety.
49:31There's a lot of overthinking.
49:33Give her time to think about it.
49:35But he's just got to push through and have faith in that if we follow the process well,
49:41then things will come together as we go.
49:44Roxy.
49:46Okay.
49:47So, this is always what happens.
49:50As soon as she senses we want to finish, she'll get harder.
49:54I guess the thing that surprised me the most was just how easy someone that's trained with
49:58dogs can just go into a yard and just instantly get instant results.
50:02Roxy.
50:02Good girl.
50:03Yeah, it's just this whole experience, trying to train a working dog.
50:06It's just definitely been an eye-opener and, yeah, very hard.
50:11So, yeah, I was just very surprised how quick Joe could turn it around.
50:15So, it gives me a lot of hope in myself.
50:17Awesome, mate.
50:18That was fantastic.
50:18Well done.
50:19Yeah, thanks for that.
50:20That was a miracle.
50:21Yes, awesome.
50:21But there's still a long, long mountain to climb and we're going to try and get to
50:26the top of it, the top of the mustard dog mountain.
50:33Even though the Western Australian duo are looking good, Joni has a few tips for Courtney
50:39to make them even better.
50:41Yeah.
50:42You know, it was a bit fast at the start, so I definitely would put that sit on her real
50:46quick.
50:47Once you get that sit and you can then get into the position and then try and see if
50:51you can get that solid call off.
50:53I mean, if she does want to go, maybe have two pence of sheep.
50:56So, you're calling her off work to go to work.
51:00Oh, okay.
51:01Yeah.
51:03Blossom also tends to favour one side.
51:08I think you did all your turns one way.
51:12One thing to work on is when you square her up, that you sit her straight in front of you
51:17so that she's not more one side of you than the other.
51:20Oh.
51:21So, when you're casting, it's balanced.
51:24That's the first time I've heard that.
51:25Oh, yeah.
51:26It's pretty important.
51:27Yeah, wow.
51:27I definitely need to work on making sure my dog isn't favouring one side by walking
51:33them on both sides and then also getting her to square up.
51:36What's over there?
51:41Yeah.
51:41Yeah.
51:41Yeah.
51:43Yeah.
52:08It's brilliant.
52:16I'm going to have to focus on slowing down a bit and taking more time on one particular
52:24objective rather than having Booruma in the ring working the sheep and then doing too many
52:29things at one point in time.
52:31Okay.
52:31So, I'm just going to keep the rake at my feet and bring it out and that way he's learning
52:36what the block is.
52:39So, I'm just going to keep doing that until he gets the hint that if you go out in front
52:44of me, I'm just going to pull you back this way, mate.
52:48Now, we know that he doesn't like going clockwise.
52:51So, what he's going to do to us here is ducking behind them on his non-preferred side.
52:57So, I'm not going to let him do that.
52:59So, what about there?
53:01There.
53:02I'm not going to let him do that.
53:04Respect is probably the biggest thing that's going to trip Ian up if he doesn't keep on
53:09working on the nothing for nothing rule.
53:11Quite often pets, they're just given everything, whereas working dogs have to earn their right
53:16to be a part of your pet.
53:18See how he's always trying to come around behind me there like that?
53:22I won't let him.
53:24So, he needs to look at how he can show Booruma that he's on his team, that he's working
53:29with him and that they're just growing and learning together.
53:34Push him up.
53:36On Sam's farm at Wolka, he shows Mick the issue he's having with Captain not being effective
53:42in pushing up stock out into the paddock.
53:46Yeah, he's not pushing the stock.
53:48Push him up.
53:50I can see what you mean you're having trouble.
53:51They're ignoring him.
53:53Push him up.
53:54Yeah, so we didn't see that inside the yard.
53:56The dog looked a million dollars because it's all confined.
53:59But when he gets outside, in the real world, it's all different.
54:02Because he's working so correctly and he's not biting them and he's not doing stupid shit,
54:07they're happy to have him around.
54:08Yeah.
54:08But he's still got to learn to move them.
54:10Yeah.
54:10So, in just that one aspect, you'd like to see him push a little bit more.
54:16Come on, Ferry.
54:16Push him up.
54:17Get over.
54:17A practical way for Captain to learn is by pairing him with Mick's experienced collie
54:22and half-sister Ferry.
54:25Now he's got another dog with him.
54:27We've just got to teach him an association to move the sheep.
54:31Push him up.
54:32Good boy.
54:33Push him up.
54:34See, I picked me time there when he was close because I'm trying to get him to associate.
54:38Push up means come in.
54:40Yeah.
54:41Good boy.
54:42See him wanting to come in there?
54:44Yeah.
54:44Oh, I really enjoyed that, working with Ferry, because I've tried him with my other dogs
54:48and they've got way too much presence on the sheep, so it doesn't really work.
54:53And when he comes in, we reward him.
54:55Good boy.
54:56So he starts to learn to win and move them.
54:58Yep.
55:00Yeah, that's daunting me a little bit, but I don't know, it's something I've got to learn.
55:13Over in Western Australia.
55:15I have a surprise for you.
55:16Oh, wow.
55:18Yeah.
55:19What could it be?
55:21Oh, here we go.
55:22Mentor Joni is looking to shake things up with Rex and Alfie.
55:27Fresh goats.
55:28They are, they're my babies.
55:30Having started to lose interest in the trainer mob, Joni's hoping this new pack of goat
55:35goats might reignite Alfie's interest.
55:37Oh, no, it's too much.
55:39Too much.
55:40She's also set up an obstacle course.
55:43I got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
55:45To help improve Rex's body position.
55:48Righto, stick to your course.
55:50So all you're doing is going up through the coconuts.
55:54Pull them in, pull them in.
55:55That's okay, missed one coconut.
55:57So the three new goats, they kind of move the same as my old goats.
56:01So it kind of flicked a bit of a switch in my head that maybe it's not the goats that
56:06are the problem.
56:07Maybe it's a bit of me and I need to create the movement within the goats to get Alfie interested.
56:12Now be the leader you need to be.
56:14Lots of push, push, push.
56:15When I get in there, I don't go over the top, I don't go low.
56:18Whereas Joni gets really over the top and really with her movements, which creates
56:23the movement on the stock.
56:25So I think I need to get a bit more like Joni in that sense.
56:28See how she's coming around?
56:30Get a few more of the twists in.
56:32Righto now, turn around.
56:34Going back forward through your coconuts.
56:36Going through your coconuts, mate.
56:38The main thing that Rex will have to work on is trying to work out where balance is for
56:43himself.
56:44If anything, I feel it's his body language is actually stopping the flow.
56:49To me again, otherwise you're just working one side, remember?
56:52Yeah, okay.
56:54Just doing big donut.
56:55Good girl, good girl, good girl.
56:56The dog's probably getting a little bit bored.
56:58She just needs a new challenge.
57:00And so it'll be up to him now to balance all that up.
57:04You can't just focus on one thing and then tick the box and start the next thing.
57:07You need to really start two things at once to be able to meet the muster dog markers.
57:12Righto here, dog.
57:13Okay.
57:14As it's an up and down journey all the way, really right to the end.
57:18Next time, the pups are getting the day off.
57:21Good girl.
57:22As the rookie handlers face the muster dog stock assessment on their own.
57:28God knows how the hell that'll turn out.
57:30They must show they can read the body language of their stock.
57:34There's a reason I dislike goats.
57:36Then manoeuvre the beasts where they want them to go.
57:39Stop!
57:39As soon as it happened, I was like, you idiot, you've come in way too fast.
57:44But for some of the participants...
57:46You do have a fear of the cattle, but it is something you're going to have to get over.
57:50Oh, that's angry.
57:51She's scraping.
57:52Don't they do that in the movies before they ram?
57:54My head aches back.
57:56It all becomes too much.
57:58Oh.
57:59Oh, God.
58:02Yeah!
58:03Yeah!
58:07That's good.
58:24I need to do it, too.
58:26They're usually there for yourself.
58:27If not, the boys come in.
58:27Do not try it.
58:28You can pull it around, remember well, fine.
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