You should do most of your Obedience training around alot of distractions. Dogs will listen better at home where there is familiar surroundings. The real test of how well your BC listens is how he listens when another dog walks by or if a child runs in front of you while you are walking him. I notice a big big difference in my 7 month old male BC, when we both went to a Dog obedience class. The word "Heal" works much better than "no". The BC can learn a rather large vocabulary. My mom had her Border Collies obeying commands by both pronouncing or spelling out the command letter by letter.
