What is your border collie doing right?

What is your collie doing right?

One of the most successful training techniques when working with collies with behaviour problems, is to focus on what your collie is doing right, rather than what they are doing wrong. Living with a Border Collie often means managing behaviours like not being able to settle, wanting to play all the time, watching for passers-by, … Read more

Is your border collie in pain?

As a behaviourist, I am trained to recognise the behavioural symptoms of border collies in pain or discomfort, and I can work with owners and vets to get better outcomes for any animal that could be in pain. But so often, when I can see signs of pain or discomfort in a collie I am … Read more

Using a no-attention discriminative stimulus to stop barking

border collie barking

One very good way of stopping your border collie barking is to use a no-attention discriminative stimulus. This can help dogs who bark and whine for attention and become very frustrated or anxious when their behaviour doesn’t result in the anticipated reward. Their anticipated reward could be being thrown a toy, being stroked, or even … Read more

Border Collie Jumping and Biting

Border collies are fantastic dogs, and can make great companions, but there are often very difficult behaviours to navigate from puppyhood through adolescence and on to early adulthood, often as late as 3 years old.  They can become aroused by different things to other breeds, mostly focused around movement.  Border collie jumping and biting behaviour … Read more

Border Collie Adolescence

border collie adolescence

Border collie adolescence is the cause of over 90% of my behaviour consultations, which tells you how challenging this part of raising a collie can be! Their problem behaviours range from aggression to owners, strangers or other dogs, to shadow chasing, chasing vehicles, lack of recall, pulling on the lead or sound fears and phobias, … Read more

Why do collies chase cars?

car chasing border collie

Why do collies chase cars and other vehicles?  Having worked with many border collie car chasers over the last few years, it’s my belief that this behaviour is most often initiated by fear and frustration.  Border collies that chase vehicles often are taken too near to busy roads when they are puppies and are terrified … Read more