Gemma Fisher, Dog Training & Behaviour Specialist

Gemma Fisher, Dog Training & Behaviour Specialist Border Collie training & behaviour specialist 🐶 In person 121’s 🇬🇧 & Online Courses available 🌎 I guess you’d say she's a bit of a fan of the breed!

Gemma Fisher is a renowned international trainer who specialises in Border Collies. She has belonged to 7 amazing collies, bred 17 talented collie puppies over two litters, and fostered 3 troubled collies before finding them their forever homes. Not to mention how many collies and their owners she's helped throughout her many years as a dog trainer. Border Collies and their crosses can be amazing

dogs. But they can also be really hard work too! That’s why she helps collie owners how to teach their dog a brilliant recall so they can enjoy walking anywhere without the worry of them overreacting to joggers/ cyclists or other dogs. She started as most people do, in a village hall learning traditional obedience skills. But she found her energy and enthusiasm was better suited to the sport of agility, and there a love affair was born. A life-long learner, Gemma has a wealth of knowledge to share about all things dog-related. She realised early on in her dog training journey that thinking outside the box and learning from other dog sports could only be a good thing. As far as she's concerned, there is no such thing as one size fits all. She works with the dog in front of her, each as unique as the people that bring them to see her. She shares her life with Border Collies, plus one somewhat unorthodox Working Cocker Spaniel. The Border Collies share her love of work and learning. The Cocker reminds her that life should never be taken too seriously. Gemma is a passionate and enthusiastic speaker who brings lots of energy to her workshops and seminars. She is only interested in shaping dog and human behaviour using kind, positive reinforcement based methods. It is her fervent belief that all creatures are capable of great things - if only they can brought to realise it. Helping people and dogs realise that is her definition of a successful seminar. She has a passion for helping dog lovers build better relationships with their dogs so that they can enjoy every moment with them. You will find her online training courses & workshops full to the brim with useful information and ideas to help you solve any dog training problem. Learn more at her website -->>

www.gemmafisher.com

The doors are open to my free 5-Day Fixated to Focused Collie Recall Challenge 🎉I've watched hundreds of owners get stuc...
10/09/2026

The doors are open to my free 5-Day Fixated to Focused Collie Recall Challenge 🎉

I've watched hundreds of owners get stuck at exactly the same point - and I know exactly why.

It's rarely one big fix 🔧

It's the small gaps nobody's pointed out yet - in the training, the timing, or what's actually being asked of the dog.

That's what this Challenge is for. Not a magic fix - a clearer picture of what your Collie specifically needs next..

Join us here - it's free 👉 https://signup.gemmafisher.com/fixated-to-focused-collie-recall-challenge/

🎂🐾 Happy 10th Birthday, Toddy! 🐾🎂Ten years ago today, a very special puppy came into my life.Toddy arrived after the los...
10/09/2026

🎂🐾 Happy 10th Birthday, Toddy! 🐾🎂

Ten years ago today, a very special puppy came into my life.

Toddy arrived after the loss of my beloved Kai, a dog who taught me so much and left a huge space in my heart.

I’ll never forget a friend saying to me: “If ever a dog had come back again, this would be the one.”

Toddy didn’t replace Kai - but he reminded me that love expands.

He found his own place in my heart, with his passion to please, his steady presence pressed against me in the mornings, and his brilliance in everything I’ve asked him to turn his paw to.

✨ Some of my favourite memories with Toddy:

🌟 Winning 4 agility classes in a single weekend to climb from Grade 3 to Grade 4
🌟 Being the star of my very first online course, Practical Puppy Fix, and starting me on a new training journey
🌟 Becoming the father to 10 Borderspirit pups, including my precious Summer
🌟 Helping countless other dogs as one of the most reliable stooges I could wish for

Today I’m celebrating all the joy, lessons, and adventures Toddy has brought me - and looking forward to many more.

09/09/2026

I hear this a lot from owners I work with:

"They just switch off. They get fixated on something and that's it. They're so stubborn." 😫

Here's what I actually believe, after years of working with Border Collies:

👉 They want to please us.

What they often don't have is a clear understanding of what "pleasing you" actually looks like in that moment 💡

And that's relative to their level of education and understanding, not their character.

A dog who "won't listen" around distraction usually isn't choosing to be difficult.

They just haven't yet been taught what the right answer looks like when things get exciting.

That's not a dog problem ✋

That's a training and communication problem - and one we can do something about!

If your Collie feels "stubborn" more often than not, my free 5-day Challenge is a good place to start working that out together:

👉 https://signup.gemmafisher.com/fixated-to-focused-collie-recall-challenge/

09/09/2026

🌟 Collie Culture Case Study Finalist: Sienna & Kya 🐾

Have you ever brought a rescue Collie home and wondered if you’d made the biggest mistake of your life?

Meet Sienna & Kya 🐾

Within days of bringing four-year-old Kya home, Sienna realised she was massively out of her depth.

Kya reacted to dogs at any distance, pulled like a train, raced through walks at a million miles an hour and barely seemed to know Sienna existed at the other end of the lead.

Sienna says:

“I was probably crying every day or every other day wondering what I’d done.”

Then she found Collie Culture.

What changed first wasn’t simply Kya’s behaviour. It was Sienna’s understanding of what Kya could actually cope with.

Together they began working on:

✅ Matching the environment and challenge level to Kya’s skills
✅ Going back to the beginning instead of expecting “university-level” answers from a dog still in “primary school”
✅ Building trust through simple, structured training tailored to a Border Collie

Slowly but surely, things began to change.

Kya has made dog friends. She checks in with Sienna on walks. She’s easier to live with.

And perhaps best of all:

“Walks are enjoyable again - well, for the first time ever.”

From feeling at breaking point to having a dog she can genuinely enjoy life with, Sienna describes Collie Culture as the foundation that helped them build their relationship and tackle the challenges together 💕

Public voting opens on Saturday 12 September.

For now, show Sienna & Kya some love in the comments 👇

And if their story has made you wonder what might be possible for your own Collie, join my FREE Fixated to Focused Collie Recall Challenge:

👉 https://signup.gemmafisher.com/fixated-to-focused-collie-recall-challenge/

08/09/2026

🥅 Fizzy's sitting beside the path with a full football match happening nearby ⚽

She's watching me. Waiting 👀

Then the toy comes out, and we go straight into a proper, energetic game of tug 🥳

This isn't about me being more exciting than a football match - I never could be, and that was never the plan.

It's about taking her skills into different environments and checking that they still stand up when there's interesting distractions around her.

She's allowed to be aware of the pitch. My plan is that she's not lost in it.

That gap between noticing and disappearing is where all the useful training happens ✨

We work on exactly this inside my free 5-day Challenge, starting soon

👉 https://signup.gemmafisher.com/fixated-to-focused-collie-recall-challenge/

08/09/2026

🌟 Collie Culture Case Study Finalist: Lorraine & Luka 🐾

What do you do when your young dog is lunging, barking and growling - and getting stronger by the day?

Meet Lorraine & Luka 🐾

Luka’s difficulties started when he was still a puppy.

As he grew, the lunging, barking and growling became harder and harder to manage. Lorraine’s family even tried an expensive board and train programme, but it didn’t solve the problem.

Eventually, his mum was the only one who could handle him.

Then they found Collie Culture.

Rather than jumping straight into the hardest situations, Lorraine learned to go back to the foundations and build Luka’s skills gradually.

They worked on:

✅ Strong foundations before increasing the difficulty
✅ Working around distractions from a distance
✅ Taking small, achievable steps before moving on to more challenging situations

And little by little, their world began to open up.

They could take Luka to more places. Everyone became more relaxed. His reactivity reduced and eventually he was able to join real-life classes.

Now Luka loves agility, has achieved his Canine Good Citizen certification, and can even go into shops - something Lorraine says he could never have done before.

As she puts it:

“Our life is so much better now, and our dog is so much more relaxed and happy.”

That’s what I love about Lorraine & Luka’s story.

Not one dramatic overnight fix - but good foundations, patient progression and a dog who can now enjoy so much more of life with his family 💕

Public voting opens on Saturday 12 September.

For now, show Lorraine & Luka some love in the comments 👇

And if their story has made you wonder what might be possible for your own Collie, join my FREE Fixated to Focused Collie Recall Challenge:

👉 https://signup.gemmafisher.com/fixated-to-focused-collie-recall-challenge/

This is the sort of things I love to hear 🙌"Weekend success... continued improvement with recall. Recalled away from bir...
07/09/2026

This is the sort of things I love to hear 🙌

"Weekend success... continued improvement with recall. Recalled away from birds and from playing with another dog. Runa goes off too far ahead that I can't see her, she will auto check in & come back until she sees me. However heard another dog barking in the woods, called Runa back & she came back with the other dogs in tow 😅" Karen with Runa

Recall that survives birds, another dog, and a full-blown woodland stampede? 🤪😂

That's not luck. That's foundations doing their job.

If you'd like to build a recall like this with your own Collie, I'm running a free 5-day challenge to help you do exactly that.

👉 https://signup.gemmafisher.com/fixated-to-focused-collie-recall-challenge/

We start on Monday 21st September, and did I mention it's completely FREE! 🥳

07/09/2026

🌟 Collie Culture Case Study Finalist: Claire & Nip 🐾

Have you ever been so convinced that a training approach wouldn’t work for you that you nearly didn’t try it at all?

Meet Claire & Nip 🐾

When Claire first found Collie Culture, she was pretty sure it wasn’t for them.

After taking part in my challenge week of free online lessons, she decided not to join the Club.

At the time, Nip’s car chasing was a big struggle - but Claire was also battling a lack of confidence in herself and very little belief that things could really change.

One phrase from that first week stayed with her:

“Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”

Eventually Claire replied to one of my emails to say, “I don’t think it will work for me.”

My response was essentially:

Maybe it might. We could try.

So we did.

Claire and Nip began working on:

✅ Clearer, more consistent communication
✅ Tackling difficult situations step by step
✅ Building Claire’s confidence alongside Nip’s skills

Less than a year later, Claire says:

“It’s amazing, the journey that we’ve been on together, and the bond that we have now.”

Nip was always a lovely dog who adored agility, hoopers and obedience - but the car chasing was holding them back.

What has changed isn’t simply one behaviour.

It’s the way they work together, Claire’s confidence in herself, and the bond they’ve built along the way 💕

Public voting opens on Saturday 12 September.

For now, show Claire & Nip some love in the comments 👇

And if their story has made you wonder what might be possible for your own Collie, join my FREE Fixated to Focused Collie Recall Challenge:

👉 https://signup.gemmafisher.com/fixated-to-focused-collie-recall-challenge/

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