Training & Events

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Training your Border Collie to work livestock or compete in dog trails is a life changing experience. It will transform the way you regard your dog and forge a lifetime bond. There is nothing more rewarding once you’ve experienced the Border Collie instinct and have mastered the communication with your dog.

Best of all it’s a two way street! Once trained, your Border Collie will blossom with confidence and determination to please. We hope you’ll become a part of CQ’s family of dog owners.

Levels of Training offered for Border Collies and all breeds of dogs:

Basic Obedience: Learning boundaries, rules, commands such as; sit, down, stay and come. As well as, walking on leash at your side and behaving when at rest.

Level One Herding: round pen with sheep developing the natural balance and the 6 & 12 with the handler. Basic verbal commands; Way, Bye, There, Stay, Come, Here to me, Down and That Will Do. Beginning of outrun and retrieval of flock.

Level Two Herding: advanced commands such as Drive-a-way and reverse flanking while working sheep out in the open with emphasis on extensive outrun and retrieval of flock.

Level Three Herding: optional graduation to cattle herding using all voice commands and beginning whistle commands. Pasture outruns, drive-a-ways, reverse flanking, beginning obstacle training and pen work.

Level Four Herding: open pasture training with voice or whistle commands. Extensive outrun retrieval on foot or horseback. Movement of livestock about pasture and through coarse and obstacles using dog further & further away from handler.