I recently aquired a 18 month old male border collie, I understand they are smart dogs and can learn many commands. I'm interested in teaching him to go left, right, back and foward on some kind of hand signal or verble command, like they do in the contests I see on TV. does anyone know how this is done? Thanks for any help

Hello- We have just moved from a house with almost 2 acres of land that had about 3/4 of an acre fenced - mostly in woods - to a house with almost no woods and only a 1/2 acre total. So needless to say, our Golden's area has been considerably downsized. It is also mostly all very nice manicured St. Augustine grass. This makes seeing the watse and scooping very easy. So we have decided that scooping and disposing is the way to go. We have a small creek in the back yard, so spreading in the few natural areas we have is out of the question. Also, we don't want to put it in with our domestic garabage because we don't want the smell in there. Any ideas? We have seen the dog septic tanks but I'm also worried about smell with this - and also location of it due to the creek in the back. I'm not putting it in the front yard...and the side yard on both sides is virtually non-existant. Thanks for any ideas! Rick