At The Working Sheepdog Website, Andy and Gill spend a great deal of time with their Border Collie Sheepdogs (varying in numbers between 15 and 30 on occasions).
Before committing himself fully to the sheepdogs Andy was a professional photographer specialising in products and architecture.
Once he met Gill, he became interested in border collies and quickly realised he had a flair for training sheepdogs. It wasn’t long before Andy gave up the professional photography and became a full time sheepdog trainer.
Andy’s professional photographic skills were put to excellent use in 2009 when Andy and Gill produced an excellent 2xDVD set especially intended for beginners to sheepdog training.
The DVD set First Steps in Border Collie Sheepdog Training is crammed with information about sheepdogs, sheep and how to prepare a training ground but perhaps most importantly, it shows things going wrong during training and how to put them right.
After launching ‘First Steps‘, Andy was inundated with requests for help with Sheepdog Training, so he started running one day courses at Kings Green Farm. These have run very successfully for over two years now, but at the moment, the number of courses has been restricted to one per month because Andy and Gill are busy making a new Sheepdog Training DVD.
In October 2010, Gill gave up her job as editor of an industrial magazine and joined Andy full-time at Kings Green Farm, where she took over responsibility for the Sheepdog DVD Shop, as well as helping with all the other jobs around the place.
Meanwhile, the Working Sheepdog Website is also packed with sheepdog training information, pictures of border collie sheepdogs and puppies, as well as articles about some great sheepdogs.
Fantastic! Can hardly wait to see more.
Hi Andy and Gillian
What great idea with this block. I will follow this.
Greeting from your bigest fan from Switzerland.
Now England and Switzerland are the same. See the snow.. smile :-)
A plea for help. We have a superb 1.5 yr old collie bitch who rounds up our local sheep beautifully (fence between her and them), she can circle the field and move to another. She’ll keep crawling along very calmly for 20 mins. I feel as a domestic dog that we are not helping her with her natural instincts. I can’t find anyone who can help me satisfy these instincts in a domestic situation or help me to control her hunting, which when she does occasionally. She killed her first rabbit at 5 months and has caught and killed 5 since. She recalls everytime no problem but when she hunts she just goes and doesn’t look back. She’ll be gone for 5 – 20 mins which is totally unacceptable. Pleeeeeeese could you recommend a book, site or something to help we really want to do the best for her and us. Thank you very much in anticipation and sorry to contact you in this way. Aidy
Aidy,
You don’t say where you are located, but Sue Harper may be able to help you.
Her website’s called Educating Rover.
Hope this helps.
Andy