Commercial Sheep Producer Outreach

While our mission covers the use of herding dogs in all livestock enterprises, we have a particular focus on supporting large-scale sheep operations in their use of herding dogs.

Development of services for sheep producers is in the early stages, but we do have a program we've initiated aimed directly at supporting them.

This program involves providing partial reimbursement for lessons taken by their employees to better understand and train the dogs they use in their jobs. WCSDS will refund $10 per lesson for up to 10 lessons that any employee of a commercial sheep operation in Oregon takes with one of our approved instructors.

The employee simply submits a form signed by the instructor and their employer listing the dates of the lessons, and WCSDS will send them a check to partially reimburse the cost.

For more information about this program, the instructors available, or to request the form, please email Ian at ian@whistleandcrook.com.