Breed-Specific Herding Styles: How Selection Shaped Different Working Methods

A comparative analysis of heading, heeling, and tending styles across herding breeds, examining how centuries of regional selection produced fundamentally different approaches to livestock management.

February 26, 2026

Nature vs. Nurture in Herding Dogs: What Cross-Fostering and Breed Comparison Studies Reveal

Examining the relative contributions of genetics and environment to breed-specific herding behaviors through cross-fostering experiments, breed comparison studies, and longitudinal developmental data.

February 18, 2026