Yea, when i was 14-15 my older brother had a huntaway working dog on a farm in cheviot Canterbury New Zealand - brother suffered a rugby injury and brought it to stay with us for 2/3 months while he recovered. Man, that thing was so quick off the mark and fast it would just run rings around my Mother's two dogs (Labrador and Springer spaniel) all day long.
They are very quick, they aren't so well known here, some farmers are getting into them because of their work ethic, our dogs parents were from a working farm, we try to emulate the exercise he would get from working on a farm in his day to day 3 hour routine. 2 hours in the morning and 1 to 1.5 hours in the evening. His head is more collie than classic huntaway but his body is huntaway, has those powerful hind legs, every inch of him is toned muscle(our retriever is the same as he has to keep up with him), the huntaway weighd in at 26kg and the retriever at 41 he is a very large dog, not fat, has lion paws according to friends, he is something to look at when he's posing, all muscle just like the huntaway. We went from a lab to a huntaway, it was a complete culture shock lol.
Was the huntaway that you encountered only attached completely to 1 master?.
I've seen that in nz they work without human intervention very often, they really are a clever dog. Well most of them are, mine chases trains lol.
Damn, my auto correct went mad, apologies.
Was the huntaway that you encountered only stretched completely to 1 master?.
He was definitely tuned to my brother - It wasn't so much that he couldn't follow commands, just that after a while he seemed to be like 'meh - sure ok, just this time then i'm off again' , Me and my sister would put a lead on and walk (he always wanted to take off) but when he was let off - that was it - it would do his thing and only come back because we would call back the other dogs - it was clear he was deliberately ignoring us and really just seemed restless and a bit unmanageable after a while - prob lack of working. I'm sure he was glad to get back to the farm.
EDIT: Lol i did notice - but i'm half retarded anyway so it was no problem to decipher.
Hmm, he sounds like ours lol, does anything and everything that my son commands him to do, never barks, always listens. My wife and I take him out daily and he is completely different, he does do as he's told but he doesn't stop barking , he never ever leaves us and does his own thing, he's just very very vocal lol, I read that they are 1 man dogs and in his case it does seem to be true. Beautiful dog though and he doesn't stand any shit from any other dog no matter what the size. That said he's friendly but has boundaries with other dogs, that's how it's supposed to be though i.m.o, he would never let another dog mount him, some have tried and they've been put firmly in their place, the retriever on the other hand doesn't care about any of that stuff, it's all a game as far as he's concerned lol. Anyway, thanks for the decent exchange, take care.
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