Small Dog Breed Care : How to Care for a Blue Heeler

Hi I'm Nancy, and I'm the training manager at the Berkley East Bake Main Society in Berkley California we're going to talk about Blue Heelers today, how to care for them? The Blue heeler in the same thing pretty much as the Australian Cattle dog and where you find most of them is in New Zealand on the working sheep ranches or sheep stations as they called them.

These dogs are a rough and tangled dog, they are tough, they're design to run miles and miles and miles everyday around sheep, on top of sheep, over sheep and they want to be in control. Any dog that's designed by breeding to control a large group of livestock is going to want to control other things when they don't have that livestock to control, so the things that you going to have to watch out for behaviorally with your blue heeler is they have to really answer to you, you have to put very good firm obedience training on them using positive and friendly methods of course in order to get them answer to you, they will want to be nippy.

They'll want to round up your children and all the neighborhood children as well and they can nip ankles and heels which is their tendency to do on the main cause I get as a behaviors about blue heelers or Australian cattle logs is that they are nipping at kids heels so that’s a boundary you'll need to put on them to make them a good pet. Otherwise give them good exercise, take them hiking o regular bases and you'll have a long happy life with your Blue heeler.