I introduced these dogs to the farm life at 1-2 years old after they had began hunting for a little while on the coast and had reached maturity, it took a good 2-3 months of constant training before i was confident with leaving the dogs around the chickens. After 6months the dogs are the farms own private security they have established respect for the other animals on the farm and even leave our penned pigs alone, its been 2 years since we moved and i havent had a problem. I cannot say how to train your dog but it must become comfortable with the animals presence and purpose, i do beleive strongly that dogs who do not have bloodlines with sustained work will be alot harder to train.

As a proud Jack Russell owner about to embark on a permaculture lifestyle it was very heartening. I actually trained our JR (Cosmo) not to kill the Blue Tongue lizards that have shared our backyard for over six years now.

Can you say more about the training regimen you undertook?