http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFP28ANXLLA

Wow!!! :)

Wow! thats great! :-)

That's what I call a pack! :-) How beautifully trained to stay so close to him.

I'm speechless...beautiful :)

What fantastically happy, healthy dogs they must be :)

Brilliant !!!  Even stopped my OH working for a wee bit to watch. :-)

I was going to think how irresponsible,BUT it was truly beautiful and totally awesome.

Wow fantastic. Beautiful,beautiful dogs.Loved it.

that was fab he has amazing control and they dont take thier eyes of him .

im jealous, it would be nice to have 1 dog that behaved like that, theres no way i could go out on a bike and have him following me like that, finds a scent and his mind is elsewhere

wow, it would make my life easier if i could run them all together.

> I was going to think how irresponsible,BUT it was truly beautiful and totally awesome.

Lol, same here Cornishmals!

Wonderful to watch, control, respect and absolute love. Hats of the both him and his dogs :-D

This guy has great control , I really enjoyed watching it but couldn't help notice that twice his dogs did a poo and he didn't stop to clean it up.

Wow just fantastic if I could get one dog to be like that I would be over the moon

> This guy has great control , I really enjoyed watching it but couldn't help notice that twice his dogs did a poo and he didn't stop to clean it up.

Oh i never noticed that.

Ha Ha I did too,half way through the pale Woo when they broke of into the field the first time!

Wow just amazing! :)

What breed of dog are they?

Fantastic Video, Very well behaved, they look like some kind of hound breed, very keen to please the owner must admit I think I'd wet myself if I saw all of them coming at me and Kez in the woods LOL

Can't access the clip but if its the one with the guy on the bike and hounds following I saw it last year thought wow amazing then a Eastern European colleague pointed out to me the guy in that video used electric shock collars to train the behaviour :-( The dogs in that video were actually a hound cross used as working sled dogs in Eastern Europe, hope its not the same one :-(

Hiya,

There are some without collars and a few that look like they are wearing spray or ecollars and he was at one point in the clip rolling them onto sides to fuss them, to be fair it wasn't done harshly but it was definitely done with a purpose and had the dogs offering appeasment gestures. Plus crossing a busy road no matter how well trained while on a bike with dogs loose, one did get briefly distracted on the crossing on the way back. Don't think it's quite as amazing as it looks.

Phew wore me out just watching that. :)
There's a local bloodhound pack who are out on the roads with their master who keep together like that.

Wow.
I used to work in a big show kennel, and would free run up to 17 dogs at a time, but only in the owners fields which were fenced and in the middle of no where.  I wouldn't have trusted them loose like that by roads!  What if a local bitch was in season!
Has anyone else got experience of both kennelled dogs kept in packs and one on one pet dogs?  My two dogs are very well behaved, and know I am boss no question, however I will never have the absolute level of control I had with the pack.  With the pack no dog or horse or noise in the distance would have taken their eyes off me.  If I picked anything up to eat they would all back off by a few paces, most of them lying down until I'd eaten whatever it was.  I never hit them, or punished by putting them upside down.  I was boss and that was that, no arguement.  If only the pets could have that obedience!  I think its because a pack of dogs only see their leader at set times when they do they are so pleased they dont take their eyes off them.

Brilliant.We see the same dogs on our walk in the fields and somtimes there are 12 dogs running free,they all get on and its lovely watching and walking with them all.

Sheila.

Really fantastic dogs being dogs controlled of course.
Did you notice that they all had their place each clip shows the dogs more or less in the same slot in the pack. 19 lots of poo and he did'nt clear up after those that went ,while running ... Try doing that!!!:-)

Yes, did you notice the guy with his dog loose wearing a harness? That dog looked like he couldn't believe his eyes, got defensive ad then started running after the pack to be with them!!! Classic. I would love to have that many dogs and be able to manage them that well.

> Has anyone else got experience of both kennelled dogs kept in packs and one on one pet dogs? 

I can get a dozen dogs to sit in the kitchen at the same time.  And they have never been kennelled.  They have to sit and wait while I get grub up, I couldn't have the whole gang jumping at me.  That's 4 different breeds too.  Was 5, but I lost my Toy Poodle last summer.  I still treasure the photo of a gang of them sitting, and her in front!

Jay15, yes i noticed that...made me laugh coz thats what my boy would do...be worried-then follow, and I'd have trouble getting him back from that temptation!!! LOL
Paula

Paula Dal, I just cracked up when I saw him running after the pack--suddenly realising "wow, these guys have FUN!!!" It made my day.

Hang on guy's I bet I could get 19 dogs to free run with me on a bike........... But I would have to dress as a giant sausage and the bike would have a very big yummy stake trailing behind me, :) :)

lol, this is going to give rise to a whole new thread: what would you do to get 101 dogs of your breed(s) free running after you? I would have to run down the road dressed as a giant chicken clutching a tripe chew in each hand. Frankly, some of my days are spent doing even more idiotic things, but then that's the nature of the sector in which I work...:-) I would love to turn up at a Board meeting in this outfit instead of the usual attire!

I thought I did quite well with my 6, I just need to smell like a smelly old Stilton.

The footage looked great but I have my doubts.
I'd like to know what was in that 'crop' type thing that he waved when he wanted them to move in to avoid on-coming traffic, and what sort of receivers might have been in the collars they were wearing.

I have to say no matter how well trained, I'd be wary of roads and loose dogs, mine are good but a squirrel can take their attention even more than stinky old cheese me :)

This is just running a pack of hounds :-)

OMG, if I was the man on the bike they came up behind I think I would have filled my pants!  All these dogs and a man on a bike waving a stick - waaah!  Definitly one that would have me stopping to watch if I saw it anywhere.

As a child, in the 1950s, we would regularly see the hounds being exercised- about 14-16 pair - they would all be running free - but under the control of the Kennel staff (on bikes) ....when being exercised there would never be any reports of cats or small furries being killed - but when the hunt was in full swing there would often be a report of a cat/small furry being attacked :(

>This is just running a pack of hounds 

thats what I was thinking, im sure thats how alot of foxhound packs are exercised.

:-)

We fairly often meet the local hunt out exercising 40 or so hounds with just the same amount of control - just that they have 2 blokes on bikes, not just one.

The great Heini Winters and his Alaskan Huskies :) Fab video

I've seen this video before its amazing!

Cracking video. I've been out on the moors with my dogs a few friends dogs and a couple of clients dogs all loose like that. You get some funny looks, mostly because its such a mixed bunch. I remember one pack was made up of two collies, a jrt, a couple of husky type dogs, a lab a golden and labradoodle. There was all so a small x breed who looked like a mixture of whippet and beagle (genuinely had a whippet body and beagle ears) We walked past a couple of people who were impressed with the pack then fell about laughing when they saw the little one.

I think he uses similar training methods to me tbh.

Adam

I think he uses similar training methods to me tbh.

How do you know that Adam? Sometimes I wonder if you actually really like putting the cat amongst the pigeons!

Going by the dogs body language, behaviour and some of the comments about it.

Adam