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ABOUT US

Welcome to our site!

We live 1000+ feet up on a sheep farm in the Northern Pennines in England. Our Border Collies are working lines, ISDS and KC registered, they help us daily on the farm, some also have fun in agility and flyball. We currently own 7 Border Collies and 1 German Shepherd who came to us as a rescue pup.

We have 2 sons (Josh 10, and Reuben 3). With the farm we run 2 Border Collie related businesses – ‘Colliewobbles' (www.colliewobbles.com) which caters for the needs of general BC owners and ‘ Sheepdog Shop' (www.sheepdogshop.co.uk) which caters specifically for sheepdog trialling enthusiasts. We sell via the internet worldwide (in 2004 we won the UK Trade & Investment New Exporter Individual Achievement Award, in 2005 we were the runners up in the Farmers Weekly Alternative Enterprise of the Year award). We also attend shows all over the UK and Europe (i.e. Crufts, World Agility Championships, ISDS National Trials, Continental Sheepdog Trials etc). Red

 

Will

It was our interest in Border Collies that actually saved us from losing our farm due to financial hardship after foot & mouth in 2001. Every cloud has a silver lining – ours was a black and white Collie shaped one!! As well as competing in Agility and Trialling our dogs and farm animals also work in films, TV, photo shoots for magazines, advertising campaigns etc.

See our TV and Promotional work page for more info !

 

We are currently awaiting planning permission for two holiday cottages on the farm which will be aimed for people with multi-dogs. As well as being able to walk the dogs in a fantastic area we will be offering sheepdog training - these are aimed at people who have Border Collies and just want to know what they have taken on (i.e. is my Border Collie a pet who is a working dog, or a working dog who is a pet?? - big difference!!), or people who may be interested in sheepdog trialling/would like to see what is involved or would just like a one off experience. Agility training will also be offered plus various farm related activites depending on the time of the year. We hope to have the Cottages open for Easter 2009. Please contact us if you would like to be kept up to date with developments. Tim

This website however is not to do with work but pleasure. It is about our own Border Collies, info on them, piccis and updates on some of the pups we have had in the last 7 years and the homes they have gone to. Our dogs have the affix 'Comebyanaway' on their Kennel Club registration and ‘Byanaway' on their ISDS registration. All are eye tested and any we breed off hip scored. We have been very lucky with our dogs and their offspring, they have won Open and Brace Sheepdog Trials, represented Great Britain in Agility several times as well as running at the top level, and qualified for the Flyball Finals several times at Crufts. We also recently sold a couple of pups into Obedience Homes so watch this space for success in Obedience as well !!!

Please read and enjoy! - any comments/ideas please e.mail us at comebyanaway@hotmail.com

* Please Note - All graphics and wording on this site is Copyright. Please do not copy it - we have recently been made aware of several sites who have copied chunks from our site, especially descriptions of our pups etc. Please do not do this, our site is written 'from the heart' and therefore very personal to us.