Here is another article I found off of the website that is the first link in my "Collie Websites" section on my sidebar.   

 Walking A Collie

When you’re teaching your collie to walk with you, don’t count on getting anywhere. This is just a short exercise, not a way to get your fitness walk done for the day. You’ll need about 10 minutes, a pocketful of treats for your collie, and a six-foot leash. Make the treats tiny – you’ll be giving a lot of them. Your collie should be wearing a flat collar or harness. You should be wearing comfortable shoes that give you excellent traction – this is not the time for clogs!

Put your collie’s leash on and head outside. Talk to your collie constantly – you’ll feel funny about it at first, especially if you live in a busy neighborhood, but you’ll get over it. At least if you have a collie with you, people assume you’re not talking to yourself.

Set out with a “Stay with me!” or “Watch me!” – very positive and happy. If you’re the most interesting thing around, your collie will pay more attention. Being the most interesting thing is easy if your collie is food-motivated.

As soon as your collie looks at you – give him a treat, just for looking at you. It won’t take long for Fido to figure out what a good thing he’s got going.

Start walking at your normal pace. As soon as the leash tightens as your collie pulls away from you – STOP! Don’t say anything, don’t tug on the leash, just stand still. As soon as your collie looks at you (trying to figure out what is going on), give her a treat and say, "Good Watch!".   When the leash is no longer tight – continue walking, even if it’s only one more step. When the leash tightens, stop. When the collie looks at you – give him a treat!

Be sure your collie comes to you to get the treat. This way you make sure the collie knows being with you is wonderful, the leash loosens up, and you have some slack to start walking again. Be prepared to stand there for a while – it takes some collies time to figure out what you want, and how to get what they want!

Eventually even the most stubborn collie will figure out that being with you gets her what she wants – a nice long walk and treats! As your collie learns the exercise, space out the treats randomly. Collies are eternal optimists and will always hope a treat is forthcoming. As long as they get one sometimes, they’ll hope forever.

It is not recommended that you use a choke collar on the sensitive collie.  Choke collars are designed for more stubborn, independent breeds.  A harsh word from you will have the same effect as a choke collar on your collie.

This method of teaching tricks can really work with any dog.   I found it off of the website that is the first link under my "Collie Websites" section on my sidebar.   (Sorry, can't get the white background off of the words.)

  Teaching Tricks to a Collie

The main goal is to get your collie to sit when you use the word. One way you can gradually get your collie used to the word is by saying the word when the collie is sitting anyway. Collie sits down - you say “sit” and praise them.

You will also need to practice this every day by doing the following:

- Call your collie and offer them the treat. Let them sniff the treat and get excited first!

- Slowly move the treat until it’s over the collies head. The collie will naturally move into the sitting position.

- It’s important that the collie associates the activity of sitting with the treat, the praise and the action of sitting. Try to get your timing right.

- Keep bribing the collie and gradually decrease the size of the treat. Keep enthusiastically praising the collie.

- Repeat this exercise a few times a day. Don’t overdo it - you want your pet to think of it as fun.

- Try to practice around mealtimes when your collie is hungry; this will make him keener for the treats.

- Have the treats easily accessible, don’t fumble around,  the treat needs to happen as the collie is sitting.

- Don’t push your collie down; this won’t work because your pet will associate the action of sitting with having you push him into the position. 

Hey, I am a fourteen year old girl that loves collies.   Once I foster three collies (and take really good care of them) then I can get my own collie.  (As I mentioned in my "about me" section on my sidebar.)    ^__^   Collies are so cute!!   

Anyway, have you ever read the Albert Payson Terhune books?   They are about collies.   My favorite one that he wrote is Lad: A Dog.   They are really good books. 

Pretty soon I am going to get some links on my sidebar and change a few things on my template.  

I will post more soon.   Sorry this is so short, I mostly wanted to post to see what it would look like on the template I am trying to make.  ;-)

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