This course is about learning to teach Lifeskills:

➤  The Essential Boring Walk: learning to have a conversation and walk together side-by-side.

➤  The Art of Standing with Stillness: giving your Collie time to assess and absorb the mysteries they cannot understand.

➤  That Will Do: time to stand down, take a break and learn to relax.

➤  Wrong Sheep: learning which Sheep to work, which sheep to leave to run up trees and which sheep will never be stopped.

There is NO REASON why a dog whose entire parentage over many generations only knew life in a shed with irregular or seasonal events cannot enjoy an urban life with people, but we do need to make allowances and adjust routines to not let their Issues, or Reasons for Living, go beyond a healthy enjoyment.

Sadly modern media has bloomed more misinformation by labelling the dogs as freaky, obsessive or addicted. Generic solutions that pool all herding breeds as equal disregard the need for the Collie to exhibit their natural instinct.

Living with a Collie is both a privilege and experience that brings tremendous pleasure when learning together and not in opposition. They are amazing dogs with a generous passion to work with people and fulfil their role as the Other Half, whatever that job may be.

This course also welcomes other working type breeds that find modern lifestyles a challenge: in other words dogs that would favour rural lives to hunt, run, work.