The Importance of Positive Repetition in Herding

Herding evolved from actual work and predates the positive reinforcement world by probably a few hundred years, if not millennia. There are always ethical issues to be considered around working with doing herding with livestock. And so I try my very best to use the emotional state of the animals as a guide rather than worrying about quadrants specifically. We also need to work on ourselves and keep ourselves in a calm thinking state of mind as well as possible.