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Originally Posted by lemmsy
Ah yes but that would be a different situation entirely- offlead and working. Think of all of the comp. obedience dogs who do a beautiful/faultless loose (offlead) heels.
My friend has a farm and works his collie and yes, Meg knows all her commands (in fact she's an excellent worker), however what you call a "heel" command could be pretty open to interpretation. My friend for instance will tell his dog "Here" (after telling her to stop working, in his case "that'll do")and that means "walk with me and stay close", it is not an obedience style heel or even the sort of heel you would see in a pet dog on a lead. It basically means "follow me". He also frequently downs her whilst she is working when necessary and expects her to wait for the next command.
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Sorry I must have missed something but I thought I wrote that word for word of what you just said. I didn't put heel in "" because some use "Here" - I use that - but I used the word heel so the OP would know what I was on about. I know they don't work them to the obedience "heel". Crossed wires I think.