Working Dogs - Stock Dogs and Livestock Guardian Dogs

Farmers and ranchers who use working dogs know there is no equal. No technology will replace the instincts and energy of any animal, least of all a canine destined to gather or guard livestock.

Do you use stock dogs to help manage livestock on your ranch, be it sheep, cattle, goats, poultry, pigs...?

Do you rely on livestock guardian dogs to help ensure the well being of your livestock or poultry?

Add your story to our growing collection and help promote the beauty and the usefulness of the working dog.

We love nothing better than to talk about dogs, especially when it comes to working farm and ranch dogs and the potential that exists amongst the various breeds. But rather than just sharing our bias by writing about the dogs we use, we want to hear about the dogs you use.

The best voice for sharing the virtues of working dogs is the voice of the people who use them day in and day out.

So we'd like to open these pages up to you. Whether you use one dog or five, a guard dog or a stock dog, have one acre or one thousand. Whether you raise poultry, sheep, cattle or other livestock, this is the opportunity to share the qualities of the canines who help you do it and be part of a one of a kind collection of stories.

From Border Collies and Kelpies to English Shepherds and Bearded Collies, there are still herding dog breeds being bred for the purpose of work.

And the constant threat of predators ensures work for those formidable giants, the livestock guardian dogs.

Whether you fancy a pure breed or a mixed breed by sharing a comment about your working dogs, your stories and photo essays will serve to help the next guy in his search for the right dog.

Most of all though, these stories will be a collection which represents the value and the virtue of stock dogs and livestock guardian dogs and what they represent to the livelihood of a livestock producer.

Promote Working Dogs and Share Your Story, Photos or Comments

Whether you use working dogs for moving livestock or guarding livestock, join the collection of stories by sharing yours. Photos welcome.

Your story will be placed in the appropriate category (i.e. stock dog or livestock guardian dog) after submission.

DTR Working Dog Stories

DTR Working Dogs - Day of Work for LGD's on Pasture With Fall grazing the sheep spread out further to find enough to eat and when there are lots of sheep they disperse in smaller groups. This makes it more ...

DTR Working Dogs - Great Pyr / Akbash Cross LGD - Willow This short working dog story is about Willow; at time of writing she is our oldest female guardian dog. She is an Akbash / Great Pyrenees Cross. Six years ...

DTR Working Dogs - Kelpie and Single Ewe This is Cajun, a 22 month old Australian Kelpie, working out on winter pasture. It is shortly before dark and we have just arrived on pasture to move the ...

DTR Working Dogs - LGD's Meet the Flock We were under high pressure from coyotes and had been searching for a few months before finding these two working adult guardian dogs.

Reva and Glory ...

DTR Working Dogs at Dog Tale Ranch - Beginnings If you have made it this far into our site you will know that we are advocates for working dogs.

Both stock dogs and livestock guardian dogs are inter-...