The bordercollietrainer BBCC

16/10/2025

🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST BORDER COLLIE CLUB🎉

💥October is our 2nd anniversary. 💥
To celebrate I want to share the experience with you all.
I am offering a FREE 2 months of training with us inside the Best Border Collie Club Online.
🐾If you are ready to help your border collie, this is for you.
🐾If you want to learn more about your collie, this is for you.
🐾If you want to enjoy your walks with your collie, this is for you.
🐾If you are always being dragged by your collie, this is for you.

Inside the Best Border Collie Club we have the best ways to learn together with your collie.
📣More understanding, better relationship, more trust, better rewards, better walks, better vet visits, less chasing....all this and more is available to you.
🎉Join us for the year and only pay for 10 months with our special birthday offer🎉
Checkout the website www.thebordercollietrainer.org
if you want more information about the content. See what our current and past members have to say.
Join us here, don't miss out on this limited offer. Available until October 31st only.
https://best-border-collie-club.teachable.com/p/best-border-collie-club-teachable-com-p-best-border-collie-club-full-member-birthday-offer-1

Welcome To The Best Border Collie Club BASED IN NORTH NORFOLK AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE A little bit about me & my border collies. I am Alison, aka The Border Collie Trainer I have trained border collies to top flight national agility competition standards, to find missing people, to find tiny items i...

14/10/2025

How might you like a week of collie ‘camp’
4 days between 14th / 30 June 2026 ?

Based in North Norfolk.

Daily sessions of collie specific activities.
Learning from and learning about your collie.

We will include basic skills, Mantrailing, Sheepballs ®, scentwork and fun .

Working in a traffic free, private venue.
All levels of ‘collieness’ are welcome.

Barkers, lungers, nippers all catered for.

You’ll need to find your own accommodation.

North Norfolk has amazing beaches, loads of campsites and plenty of accommodation that welcomes multiple dogs.

Limited spaces available!

Email with your expression of interest, tell me a bit about your collie and I’ll send you more information.
[email protected]

12/10/2025

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12/10/2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US🎉🎉
2 years old 🎉🎉🐾🐾🎉🎉
As a special celebration I’m going to give out a fantastic birthday offer.
If you’re interested you’ll need to post here and I’ll give you details this week 🎉🎉

Comment below to be included.
Post a picture of your collie to get the information.
Happy birthday to THE BEST BORDER COLLIE CLUB 🎉🎉🐾🐾🎉🎉

12/10/2025

Collies and vacuum cleaners, a whole new take on barking and biting the hoover or mop 🤣🤣

07/10/2025

Anyone fancy Mantrailing next Wednesday evening?
6-9 ish
Suitable for any levels.
If you’ve never tried it…. It’s the best game of hide and seek a collie can ever have .
NR10

02/10/2025

A great way to start the day .
These are my pet sheep that are part of my Sheepwalking experience. Fancy a sheep cuddle? Want to take them for a walk?
Make your own keepsake from their fleece .
Message me for booking info

30/09/2025

Like father like daughter 💙🐾💕🐾

28/09/2025

Ball mad border collies!!!! We need you .
Check out the new course starting next Sunday .
www.thebordercollietrainer.org
Turn your collie’s obsession into the coolest sheepdog skills. Ps … no sheep needed 🎉🎉🐑🎉🎉

https://www.thebordercollietrainer.org/lessons/sheepballs-info

Sheepballs® is the best activity for collies, using their amazing skills to control stuff, move stuff and work as a team with you.
If your collie chases cars, joggers, bikes or critters this opportunity is yours to make a change.
Calmer walks, better understanding of your collie and their instincts, a new set of activities and an improvement in your relationship with your collie are all reported by my students.
Come and give it a try.
You’ll wonder why you’ve never tried it sooner .

Booking here ⏬️⏬️

https://www.thebordercollietrainer.org/lessons/sheepballs-info

This activity is available in my online school but I am now able to offer face to face courses to help you and your collie to master the skills together.

14/09/2025

15/07/2025

A very apposite post … again 👏👏👏

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There are very few shortcuts that don’t cost double later—

The key to training success isn’t found in achieving the perceived next step, employing a more sophisticated technique or trying a new gimmick. A dog achieving his best, directly correlates to the quality of his foundation training and your mindset.

When trainers don’t see the progress in their dog they expect or desire, they sometimes get frustrated; their response is often to press harder, hyper focus on the specific area or force their dog….the exact opposite of what many dogs need.

We see this with young dogs or when teaching a new concept.
Specifically, handlers believing when their dog makes a mistake, it is the chance to ‘correct’, instead of recognizing, it is the chance to teach.

While everyone knows it’s not reasonable to correct for something your dog doesn’t yet understand , handlers can, inadvertently, do just that.

Whether it’s a shout, a yell, a “no”, or other correction, when a dog doesn’t yet understand a concept, doing this isn’t productive and can be detrimental.

‘Correction’ is defined as a rebuke or punishment, assumption of comprehension to know differently/better.
It doesn’t offer explanation, foster understanding and worse, it can deliver the message that trying (offering behavior), has negative consequences.

Dogs can develop an unpleasant association with the behavior that was ‘corrected’ such as:
a wrong flank direction, attempt at the shed, heading the sheep, shape of the flank, lifting off of a person, turning back, the list is endless.

It can affect overall enthusiasm, enjoyment, understanding and the willingness for a dog to want to try.
While the intent of the ‘correction’ is to speed up the learning, it can actually slow it down and cause many additional problems.

It’s ok and even productive, to let your dog be wrong when learning a new concept—
and also important he understands, it is not a big deal.
Instead of correction, employ connection; it’s a teaching opportunity.

Dogs, and trainers alike, learn from being allowed to make mistakes.
Training epiphanies are not common; the majority of the time the ‘sudden improvement’ is actually a reflection of the body of work that preceded it, which includes being wrong.

Mistakes aren’t the opposite of success, they are part of it and overcoming them helps develop confidence and mental fortitude.
Every dog learns at a different speed and the training time is dependent on the individual.

Understanding mistakes are inevitable and ultimately, pave the road to excellence empowers your bond and partnership.
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14/07/2025