<div dir="ltr"><div>One of my dogs is a Belgian Sheepdog. His uncle was good on sheep and had several minor (basically insignificant) titles working sheep. At about 1 yr I took Cooper (this Belgian) out to see how he was on sheep. He was not impressed. He chased them around for a few minutes, pissed on the corral posts and then wandered around snarfing sheep poop. we went home.</div>
<div>About a year later we tried again. This time he grabbed the sheep and when corrected he just quit-- if he couldn't catch them and eat them, what was the point? He peed on the corral posts and ate a lot of sheep poop.</div>
<div>The third time he trotted around the corral, peed on the posts, wouldn't even LOOK at the sheep, but ate a lot of poop. So much for sheepherding.</div>
<div>I think eating the poop of vegetarian animals is a common and possibly instinctive thing, and I doubt that you can stop a dog from doing it, other than making the poop inaccessible. Maybe work on a "leave it" command?</div>
<div>I have never tried the Bassets on sheep but I suspect Llewis would make friends, Nigel would hide, and Mitchell would eat poop and find a warm spot in the sun to take a nap;</div>
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<div>MomPerson to Nigel, Llewis, Mitchell and Cooper (no thanks.)</div></div>