One-on-one sheepdog training lessons
One-on-one private sheepdog training lessons
One-on-one private sheepdog training lessons with Tully Williams are available in central Victoria. These cater for raw novices to seasoned professionals, with any breed of sheepdog, training for general farm work, hobby, or sheepdog trialing.
For more information, contact us via email, or alternatively phone Tully on 0417 386 346.
Dog friendly accomodation is available in nearby locations for those traveling from interstate (see below for more information). For those traveling from long distances or interstate, a popular option to make the trip worthwhile is to stay in local accommodation (Bendigo/Heathcote area), and come out for a lesson each day for a number of days while holidaying, or even morning and evening for a number of days. Keen handlers have even stayed for as long as a week and had 2 training lessons daily.
Contact us via email on the form below, or click the messenger button on the left to send Tully a message on facebook.
Sheepdog training or herding training?!
In recent years the term “herding” has started to creep into parts of the Australian sheepdog world. Many newcomers to working dogs simply don’t realize that this term has really originated in two places: the show dog world, and in America.
The show dog associations tend to talk about “herding”, whereas the true Australian sheepdog associations, trainers, stockmen and stockwomen, and farmers, never do – it is “sheepdog training” and “sheepdogs”, never “herding training” or “herding dogs”. So to me it will always remain “sheepdogs” and “sheepdog training”, and never “herding”, in the true Australian tradition.
Accomodation

Bendigo and Heathcote have lots of accomodation options. Below are some links to dog friendly accomodation, or simply Google “dog friendly accomodation Bendigo or Heathcote”:
http://www.dogsonholidays.com.au/goldfields/
http://www.takeabreak.com.au/bendigo/goldfields/pet-friendly/accomodation.htm
http://www.stayz.com.au/pet-friendly-accommodation/vic/the-goldfields/bendigo
http://www.wotif.com/hotels/australia-vic-bendigo-pet-friendly-hotels.html