Trying out our BMC's

Baden,
With high drive young head dogs on cattle you can work on your handle after they are tired, real tired. Let them get a settled bay on a good set of cattle and let them work, circle and hold the cattle. They should be able to do this for hours, let them. When the bay is very settled and the dogs are tired they will be able to hear you and you can work on calling them out and taking them to water. When a head dog first engages stock they are nearly unable to respond to your commands untill they have the stock settled. I never try and call a young dog out of stock untill they are well settled.