[Ayoka]

The great thing about herding is that you create a situation in that in order to do what HE wants(chase), the dog first has to do what YOU want (recall/down)...I'm sure that there's more to herding than letting a dog loose to run amok and terrorize sheep. From what I've seen clinics are in small pens with dog-wise sheep/ducks and the inital training can be done on a longline with an over enthusiastic dog.

I don't think it would make it worse at all.