If u don't want the dog. I am looking for one.

I should think a good trainer can train any dog with the right instincts, even if he has been not correctly trained or not at all for the work. It just takes a lot more time and effort and perhaps some faults will not totally disappear. But if it is turned in the right direction so it can do the job you need him to, and you know yourself how to ignore the bad things or to praise the good things, in time you can make a great combination. Just don’t let him be re-trained by one and sell him as a good working dog for anybody else. The dog will loose trust in people if to many tell him different things or he has been handled by to many people with less skills. Then he will just do it the way he likes it for himself (for getting the kick out of the game he made of it). If they just wanted him for the looks he will probably also need to learn some other basics anyway.

Abria79 to be able to keep eye contact. First with your dog, but the livestock to. Eyecontact means a lot. Make eyecontact and you tell your dog something. Don’t make eyecontact and your telling him just as much. With dark glasses you loose this tool to train your dog. Once your dog is trained, you will be able to wear dark glasses, but you probably don’t want to anymore 😉

he is still young I bought a dog over a year old from a person who said he would not work, or look at stock he's now my best dog, You do need to stop any bad habits though!

Update: best cattle dog my husband has EVER had he goes out even and brings at least 75 head back all on his own I worked with him just clicked one day it’s frikin amazing! I am so happy he has the best common sense he knows what we want that we don’t even know what we want. Downs in a dime keeps calves off our back when cutting bales for feeding even works bulls it’s insane.