We can welcome you to our farm for a private appointment or during days specifically organized to confirm your dog at the LOF.

Confirmation is open:

- Border Collies born to LOF parents and who have a birth certificate

- To Border Collies who do not have a birth certificate (in this case, they will be registered on an initial basis).

Appearance is of little interest.

The fundamental criterion is that which is applied in France during the confirmation work test, that is to say the shepherding aptitude, the rest is certainly interesting, but secondary.

• Aggressive or fearful dog

• Dog with no natural aptitude for herding work

• The dog chases, bursts out, attacks animals

• Lack of eye or total absence of eye

• Tail in the air at work (excited dog)

• Dog flees from animals

• Barking dog

The work criteria do not stop only at specific prohibitive points.

The judge follows a specification and analyzes a set of specific herd work elements enabling a score to be obtained chapter by chapter. This note will or will not result in access to the confirmation.

• Obvious traces of crossing or subject totally outside the Border Collie type

• Size outside the standard limits: 50 to 55 cm for males; 47 to 52 cm for females

• Brachycephalic or dolichocephalic head

• No stop sign

• Ears drooping and stuck to the cheeks

• Flat or knocking postures

• Trailing or coiled whip

• Thoracic circumference less than 60 cm for males and 57 cm for females

• Monorchidism, cryptorchidism

• Upper or lower prognathism

• Dominant white color

• Insufficient construction and framework leading to unsuitability for herd work

27 euros SCC application fee

40 euros AFBC application fee

(payments must be brought upon confirmation)

Below are the documents you must bring printed and completed for confirmation of your dog:

- the original of your animal's birth certificate

- a copy of their identification card

- an A4 envelope franked for sending documents to AFBC