How to Teach a Border Collie Their Name

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Summary: Learn how to teach your border collie their name in this free video clip.

Views: 4,657 | Tags: training, dog, obedience, learn, dogs, canines, dogobedience, border collies, daschunds, welsh corgis

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by BorderCollie

The dog is obviously stressed, NOT looking for an "imaginary flock of sheep". Looking away is NOT a typical BC characteristic either...staring you down MAYBE, but not looking away. Get some training before you put yourself out as an expert!!!

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by Pollie

This woman is laughable. Expert? I think not...... LOL!

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How to Teach a Border Collie Their Name

Hi! I'm Melanie McElroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village and today we are going to talk about training dogs. Border Collies are wonderful dogs. They are considered by many to be the smartest dogs on the plant. They are bred to work with and independently with humans and as you can see, they are very distracted by their environment. Border Collies are wonderful to work with. They are very quick so it is easy to have a lot of patience with them. This is Bubbles, she is a dog I have not worked with before. So the first thing we need to talk about is how to get her to pay attention to me. So I am going to start with the name game. I am going to actually use food as a lure to actually get her to look at me because she is so intense on whatever is out there; probably a squirrel. So I am going to move the food to my eyes. Now Bubbles is looking away. That is a typical Border Collie characteristic. Luring isn't working so I will try something else. I am just going to try saying her name in a bright happy voice. Bubbles. Bubbles. Good! So I got a little bit of eye contact. If you notice she did not even take the treat. That means there really is a herd of squirrel or an imaginary herd of sheep over there, so I need to work a little bit harder with Bubbles. Now ideally I would end the session and go inside and work with her but let's try it one more time. Bubbles. Bubbles Good! So I had to be patient. That little lick means she is really nervous and again, she didn't take the treat. So this is more of an example of how any dog especially a Border Collie can be too intent on their environment in order to work with him successfully and this means we need to go inside.