The Belgian Shepherd dog was developed in Belgium as a herding dog to work sheep.

作为牧羊型放牧犬，比利时牧羊狗在比利时选育。

Training a herding dog requires walking a fine line between encouraging and discouraging a dog's natural drives.

训练放牧犬，需要在鼓励与阻止犬的天性驱力间，取得微妙的平衡。

“Upright, loose-eyed dog”; that’s how herding people described my dog – EEK – that sounds horrible!

“身体挺立，目光松散”，那是人们对我的狗-EEK的描述，听起来很差！

Herding requires that the dog have the natural ability and interest to work stock.

放牧要求犬具有天性中牧放羊群的能力和兴趣。

The Canaan dog is a herding and flock guardian dog native to the Middle East.

卡南犬是一种牧羊犬和羊群护卫犬，原产于中东。

Until this point, any dog showing propensity for herding was used for that purpose.

直到今天，任何一种表现出放牧倾向的狗，仍然会被用于放牧。

I have also heard it said that the white dog is ok for herding as long as it has a colored head; the sheep apparently look mostly at the head to determine the dog's color.

我还听说一种说法：白狗如果是彩头，一样可以做牧羊工作，羊群大多数时候依据狗的头色来判断狗的颜色。

In fact, a great many of the problems associated with training dogs for herding or sheepdog trials are caused by the handler not getting close enough to the sheep before sending the dog off to them.

事实上，牧羊训练或比赛中遇到的一大堆问题，都是由指导手过早地让狗跑向羊群造成的。