what is my pup typically like?

Question

i know Red Healers are working dog but thats about it! are they good companions and loyal and what are some other things about healers???

Answer 1

hi there. we had a blue cattle. puppy stage well every puppy has that. but once they get older great dogs. very very smart. it's the same with any dog I guess if you have the time for them, and teach them, they love you to death, but yes very active. our female never stopped playing ball, thats all she did. but very loyal. and it really comes down to how there brought up. good luck.

Answer 2

Red Healers are very energertic, alert, extremely intelligent, watchful, courageous and trustworthy.

These dogs are, by nature, wary. They are naturally cautious, and grow more so as they age. Their cautious nature towards strangers make them perfect guard dogs, when trained for this task. Cattle Dogs drive cattle by nipping at their heels, but they have also been known to herd other animals, such as ducks, chickens and flocks of ground-feeding parrots without instruction when left to their own devices. When around people, their instinct to herd is sometimes hard to suppress and they can nip at people to herd them.

The Heeler has maintained many instincts from the Dingo. The Heeler is an outdoor dog rather than an indoor dog and even on a frosty night will scorn the comfort of a box in the laundry in favour of a shallow depression that they have dug for themselves. They are habitual diggers. Dingoes also dig lairs for themselves, to escape the heat and cold. Likewise, the Heeler, regardless of how comfortable its kennel, prefers a hollow in the ground.

It is important for an owner to quickly establish a hierarchy in which they are the dog's pack leader, otherwise the young Heeler may bond to a senior dog, rather than to its owner. As an urban pet, if the young Heeler is allowed to bond too strongly with some senior dog in the neighbourhood, it can be very difficult for the owner to then establish control. With unknown dogs, particularly males, the Heeler can be aggressive and fearless.

An Heeler will typically dig up and devour fungi, eat fallen fruit, pull down bunches of bananas and expertly skin them, nip neat holes in passion fruit to extract the interior and sit under a Flame Tree or a tropical Fig Tree eating the left-overs dropped by White Cockatoos and Fruit Bats.

Because of their tendency to shred things and to rip off "skins" such as upolstery fabrics to get at the innards, the ideal bedding material for an Heeler is straw, combined with a few rags so that they can happily arrange their own bed, without inciting the ire of the owner.

Answer 3

you need to take the puppy to obedience classes starting with puppy classes. It needs to be around other puppies, other people, kids and any other animal it might meet some day.