I have a 10 month old border collie who goes up on his back legs and refuses to walk near traffic. He is terrified of busy roads to the extent that i cant get him out of the house now for a walk. He will walk barely 10 meteres up the road lie down. If i try to pull him he goes up on his back legs and shows the white of his eyes etc so i know he is terrified.

Nothing has happened to him and he urinates in the house if i show him the leash.

Does anyone have any good ideas?

Thanks

Personally if my dog was so bad I would bring in a behaviourist, dog trainer for some expert advice, people really need to watch a dog to properly assess, if you do the wrong thing it may put your dog back for years.

It is at approx this age that dogs get their second bout of fear, uncertainty and complete unsureness of the world around them.  As his fear is now so great the best thing you could do is pop him in the car and drive him out away from traffic for his walks to avoid this fear he has at the moment and then gradually maybe once or twice a week, walk him on lead for 5-10 minutes, praising and rewarding him all the time.  It will take many weeks, months, of little by little walks to build up his confidence again, many pups are afraid of traffic noise, but your BC is not just a little wary he is terrified isn't he?

Find a good behaviourist, and if possible drive him to the park, fields etc for his walks for now. :-)

I'd agree. ..right now I'd go back to the start and retrain his street walking confidence.

Also just don't walk near traffic right now if that is possible but build up so that you don't totally avoid it...build up confidence. If the BC likes a ball or tug toy or food rewards play games on lead in the house, in the garden then build up to play  on lead on the street pavement outside the house. Then to very short walks frequently.  As confidence grows increase the length of the walk and the type of traffic you encounter.

The lead in agility can be used as a toy so you can play games with them...tuggy and get the dog to enjoy trying to follow the toy. But I think you can overdo it fr a pet dog you don't really want a dog paying with the lead so take better advice on that one.

For the lead I'd  ask the pup to sit and praise.
Then I'd have the lead maybe with me sat and it on my knee and call the dog to come to me near the lead and sit and praise and play.
Then dog come sit I pick up the lead put it down praise and play.
Then again call to sit, pick up lead clip it on take it off praise/play... etc.
Then build up to have the lead on hanging loose in the house while you play..then lead on with you holding it ..
then move your play nearer the front door.

My bc was like this with getting into a car even though as a pup I got him used to the car gradually he would drool and even get sick just being near the car .  So I played near the front door then with the front door open where he could see the car and building up slowly until the focus was on the pleasure. It brought his car phobia to a manageable level.

When you make progress he may always have a little of this at the back of his mind so if it starts to creep in  I'd try a little of ignoring the behaviour... act like you are unaware he is doing this.. firm come on we are going walking.... a confidant calm don't be so silly approach... ( I do this if fireworks go off when we are out ) and then go back and reinforce some of the training again.  Through your training develop a good distraction toy/reward that you can focus the dog on if he starts to get scared to try to prevent the fear building up .

He is very young so you should have a good level of success with combating this issue.