Rough Collie Residential Training
Rough Collies are renowned for their majestic appearance and sharp intellect, making them a beloved breed worldwide. Despite their gentle demeanour, Collies have a strong herding instinct. In fact, they were bred to herd sheep and cattle.
The original roots of this breed are not well known, but it’s thought that Collie’s natural home was the highlands of Scotland dating back to the 18th century, where they were used as sheepdogs for centuries. However, in recent times, they have become more of a fashion item than a herding dog. Even Queen Elizabeth II was a well-known Collie enthusiast and owned several throughout her lifetime.
Known for their sensitivity and quick learning abilities, Rough Collies flourish when trained with methods that respect their intelligence and gentle nature.
At Royvon, we focus on enhancing their innate qualities while curbing unwanted behaviours. We’ll guide your Rough Collie to become a well-mannered family member.


Help Your Rough Collie Reach Its Potential
You might have seen how witty Collies are in one of the episodes of the infamous TV show ‘Lassie’. If you want your dog to be the same, we need to make sure the dogs are socialised, and well trained mentally as well as physically. Our positive reinforcement training is the perfect way to bring the Rough Collie’s character traits to the surface. tapping into their natural responsiveness to voice and gestures.
It allows us to tailor the training to your Collie’s unique personality, age, and temperament, ensuring the best possible results and lasting behaviour change.
By using rewards rather than punishment, we create a nurturing environment that encourages your Collie to engage and excel, fostering a positive bond between you and your pet. This method also benefits you as a pet owner, making the training process more enjoyable and rewarding.
Why Training is Essential
Though naturally well-tempered, Rough Collies can only develop desirable habits with proper guidance. Like many herding dogs, Collies can be very vocal, overexcited, and a bit overdriven by their natural drive to herd, but in general, Rough Collies are very loyal, rarely aggressive or overprotective. They are eager to learn and respond best to gentle strategies.
Therefore, a well-structured training plan is essential to help them grow into well-behaved adults, bringing out their inherent traits of gentleness, alertness, and adaptability. Training polishes their good qualities and guides them to handle various stimulating environments without any problems.


The Benefits of Rough Collie Puppy Training
Starting training from a young age is crucial for Rough Collies. Their eagerness to learn improves the results of early training. Puppy training is perfect for instilling good behaviour, as young dogs are exceptionally responsive to gentle commands. Collies are also sensitive dogs and can be shy and prone to anxiety if not properly socialised.
Early training establishes clear communication and boundaries, setting the foundation for a friendly, confident, well-behaved adult dog.
Leveraging your Rough Collie’s natural, early-age learning curve helps them reach their full potential.
What To Expect From Our Training?
Enrolling in our residential training programs at our Esher or Merthyr Tydfil locations means you’ll get comprehensive training tailored to your dog’s needs.
Your Rough Collie will benefit from various activities such as socialisation with other dogs, obedience training, nature walks, and targeted behavioural corrections. Our all-encompassing curriculum ensures your Collie learns to handle social situations gracefully, follow commands eagerly, and confidently manage challenges.
You’ll know your cherished pet is progressing in a supportive, enriching environment under the expert care of our dog trainers.
Decades of Force-Free Training
Over the years, we’ve honed our force-free, positive reinforcement training techniques to be incredibly effective for Rough Collies and their owners. Our commitment to compassionate training has consistently shown that patience and kindness lead to the most effective learning outcomes.
Training without force preserves the trust between you and your dog and avoids aggravating behavioural issues. We know from experience how harsh training methods can negatively impact a dog’s psychological health.
Our gentle approach to training enhances learning, ensuring your dog responds well to stimuli and improves recall. By rewarding desirable behaviours, we make the training process a positive and stress-free experience for you and your Rough Collie. We create a lifelong bond of respect and cooperation.
You can always leave your dog in our caring hands whether for training or care at our doggy daycare camp Royvon Playhouse in Bridgend.
A Stay at Our 5-Star Dog Hotel
During the residential training, your Rough Collie will enjoy a luxurious stay at our dog hotel. Each dog receives personalised care and attention, plus a comfortable and stress-free experience. Our facility is proud to offer exceptional accommodations where your Collie is treated to the comforts of home.
Our professional staff provides 24-hour care tailored to each dog’s unique needs, giving you peace of mind and a pleasant training experience for your pet.

Are You Ready to Trust Us With Your Rough Collie?
Our expert training programs are meticulously designed to bring out the best in your Rough Collie, ensuring they become well-mannered and joyful family members. So why wait? Contact us for more details now.
Richard, her evaluator, has been wonderful with her, gave us plenty of feed back and we had a report and lots of pictures as well. Our dog had clearly bonded with Richard already and we feel much happier about leaving her for longer next time. Thank you for caring for Jumika as well as you did, it really showed!
We were experiencing difficulties when walking both dogs on the lead and both had become protective, reactive and nervous of other people and sometimes dogs, making our walks difficult and stressful.
Well what can I say, the improvement we have seen in both dogs is brilliant, they are more confident and focused now and their reactivity levels have dropped significantly. We have some additional 1:1 training sessions to complete over the next few weeks to ensure that we can keep up the training.
During the training programme, Romeo and Kelsey sent us video updates of the dog’s progress, enabling us to see how they were getting on and responding to the training. This was invaluable to us.
In addition, the team at Royvon took really good care of both dogs and we received reports on how they were settling in/getting on during their group playtime and time spent in kennels, plus daily photo updates.
I wouldn’t hesitate to board our dogs at Royvon again, we were very happy with the dogs care.
Thank you to Romeo, Kelsey and the rest of the team at Royvon!
Maslow went for 3 weeks residential and spent a lot of his time with Charlie who is fantastic. She sent regular updates including videos and pictures which we could go through in preparation for getting him home. We had updates daily from the report team to let me know that his report was ready. He had a great time.
I cannot recommend Charlie and the team enough. Definitely worth the money and he has come home ready to carry on with the training and is listening to me and eager to learn. If you're having issues with your dog then give the team at Royvon a call, it's made my life a lot easier already.
Molly's trainer during her stay was Charlie who was brilliant. She was able to quickly build up a strong relationship with her and it was easy to see that Molly felt really comfortable. Charlie sent photos and videos from each training session which helped me to track her progress and are great to refer back to now that Molly is back home. Charlie quickly identified Molly's strong herding instinct and was able to direct this positively into various "games" which are great outlet.
Throughout her stay, I also received daily photos from the care team taken during her group play sessions as well as enrichment reports. She was initially only socialised with one older, calmer collie to build up her confidence before being introduced to a larger group. It was great to see her confidence grow.
Molly is much more focused on walks and confident around other dogs and cars. Thank you to Charlie and the team at Royvon!
We needn’t have worried…she had the life of Reilly with the professionals.
The team at Royvon are extremely professional and facilities there are first class. Everything was organised in advance and the hand over seamless. We booked a larger room, play and walks…it was well worth doing so. The updates we received daily showed us just how much fun Pip was having and reassured us that this was the right decision.
I cannot thank the team enough for looking after Pip and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Royvon Esher. I am more than happy to book Pip in again…money well spent - my last review I said if I could give 6 ⭐️ I would; a small amendment it’s now a firm 7 out of 5 😁.
I would not hesitate to recommend that you leave your beloved pet with Royvon, they can certainly be trusted
Thank you so much to everyone at Royvon Esher for making Lucas’ holiday so happy. He will definitely be coming back to you when he needs to.
We were provided daily updates through videos and pictures, and I truly didn’t realise beforehand how great it would be to receive these. Seeing Mabel so happy and truly bonding with the staff was amazing to see and is also a great tool for us to refer to and learn from. We also loved seeing how close Mabel became with Tilly and we really want to thank her for being so patient and caring to Mabel.
Mabel has grown in confidence, and we now feel better equipped to support her in her ongoing training.
Thank you again to Charlie, Tilly and the Whole Royvon team! x
Romeo looked after Rocky and sent regular updates of training and play sessions. It was lovely to see him more confident and enjoying his time.
It's great we now have a place where Rocky is comfortable to stay. Thank you Romeo and the Royvon team!