I can only speak from my experiece. We live on a farm and have working dogs, they would be miserable if they did not have this job to do. Both our Australian Cattle dogs live outside and I could never see them being inside dogs. They love to run far to much to ever keep them couped up in the house. They stay outside and have access to an enclosed shelter.
We have trained them to do common commands such as sit, stay, load up, come. But as for the heeling part, they seem to do it natrally; it is really amazing to seem them in at work. We do not have cattle on our farm right now and they have to be watched really close or they try to heard the horses. |