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.
Especially Tilly, Millie and Ella who looked after my German Shepherd Ralphy. It was so clear to see how loving, caring and attentive you all were with him … it truly made a difference.
When I got home, he was relaxed, happy and clearly well looked after. It’s a huge comfort knowing he’s in such good hands.
Thank you again for all the love you gave him.
I love getting the daily photo updates and seeing him playing with his friends. It’s such a relief knowing he’s in a safe and stimulating environment while I’m at work.
Highly recommend to any dog parent looking for peace of mind and a tired, happy dog at the end of the day!
Olive has just completed her three weeks intense training and it’s like we’ve brought home a different dog. Not only is she calmer in the house, but we can now walk her without her being petrified of every noise and person that comes near her. She’s even just walked the school run with me.
Romeo and the team at Royvon have been a godsend to us, and we can’t wait to see how much further they can help Olive grow into a much loved happy and confident family pet.
I found royvon by sheer chance and it’s changing our lives. The staff were from the very first contact to his stays now so comforting and reassuring, seeing my obvious nerves about Hunters behaviour Chloe especially gave me all the time in the world, listening to my ever ending knowledge dump about hunter, why’s he’s like this, triggers, how once he’s settled he’s lovely and since the day of his confidence stay i’ve not looked back. dropping him off to strangers which is absolutely my worst fear with a reactive dog and they set such an energy he’s excited to leave me and settles in so happily. I get regular updates of how he is, what he’s doing, anything they want to tell me and it is just the best thing to open my phone to. i get photos and videos of walks and play, updates on his eating.
from someone who suffers constantly stress of a dog with behavioural issues, this is the absolute best care i’ve had for him hands down. i can’t thank the Esher team enough, especially his main handler chloe for the time and patience they give us
When we went back for our top up session, Orphy was super excited to drive through the gates and could not wait to get out of the car! We did about an hour with Charlie, going over techniques to keep Orphy interested and help us with her ongoing training while she’s at home. The refresher appointments are a nice touch and definitely worthwhile!
We absolutely recommend Royvon and are so grateful to have found them!
We want to say a huge thank you to Romeo, Kelsey, and the entire care team at Royvon. You took amazing care of Buddy, giving daily updates of his training sessions and group plays, which really helped to put our minds at ease. Buddy has built a lovely bond with Romeo and the team, and I’m sure he will look forward to any day plays there in the future.
Jasper was extremely reactive to just about everything, including people, dogs and traffic.
Through a lot of hard work, we have made so much progress with Romeo and Kelsey. They have really gone above and beyond to try and make him more manageable, and what a difference it’s made.
He is still reactive, mainly to dogs, but he can do so much more now. As with any German Shepherd puppy, we still have lots of work to do, but we believe we now have the tools to succeed thanks to Royvon.
We will still be coming back as Jasper has built a stone bond with both of his trainers, but we thoroughly recommend Royvon for anyone struggling with a difficult dog, or just a dog that needs training!
The choice of services available makes boarding here a seamless home away from home experience for our Labrador, Dune. The staff are friendly, welcoming and professional and our dog is always very well looked after. The daily updates and photos alongside Royvon's insta posts give us the confidence to leave our furry family member in their capable hands.
When we are away, we appreciate all the photos and comments about Dexter’s day! We are using you again next month! Thank you!
Dogs and their owners get a warm, professional welcome from Ioana &. Joanna, and our dog has a packed day being looked after by Leanne’s wonderful team of kind, experienced canine carers.
The whole team is a credit to Royvon’s owners, we feel lucky to have them as our trusted home from home for a special member of our family!
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!