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Roland Pell

Roland Pell

Working dog trainer with 35+ years experience in training and trialling working dogs in Australia, guest on DogTorque podcast.

Jul 6, 2026

28:00
yeah have you got a what would a day look like at like with yourself with your dogs at work
28:10
ah well my dogs don't do much work um we've got the feedlot here's about 3 000 head there we push them up into the shed and uh they're you know they're based most of them are in the shed where with where the where the handling equipment is um so they don't do a lot of real work um and every time we've only i was a dairy farmer until 18 months ago and those dogs were doing a lot of work because we had you know um running multiple properties and uh you know stock all over the place and you know well prior to you know getting here were um you know that might have had half a dozen properties on the go where share farming and lease blocks and you know i was doing 600 k's a week you know just getting around properties and checking cattle and and then still going up and you know milking you know nearly 300 head of cows so um those dogs did do a lot of work but now they're they're really you know working worries and when um every time we put the sheep through the yards i've got you know set up you know what was our dairy into a into a feedlot and every time i put the lambs through the yards i will adjust something i've made you alone races and and curved panels and all sorts of things.
29:26
My son and I, Lucas, put lambs through there today and didn't raise our voices.
29:32
We just got out of the way and they just ran through there.
29:37
Put about 500 through there in a couple of hours without barely blinking all through the handler and everything.
29:45
We know how to work stock.
29:46
I think we had a bit of practice and the yards work well.

27 MINS LATER

56:33
Yeah.

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