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Ive noticed that there are quite a few of them on the forum. Who has borders, how many, what are they (working strain or show), and what do they do for a living?I have 2, Alice and her daughter Bramble who no one wanted as shes a smooth coat
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. Alice is Isds and works the horses and cats, Bramble works her mum
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. Does anyone regret having one? Sorry, just being nosey. Mairi.
 
I have a reverse coated Collie he is 16 now and had him since he was 8 weeks old!.He is a pet but from working strain.He "herds you when you walk".He has a fantastic temprement and i dont regret owning him.I will have another when "spot" has gone.He is our second collie.Jake was also owned from a pup but lost him at 10 years old from Diabeties.
This is Spot the dog!.
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i have a rescue bc called ben,he was locked in a caravan & beaten most of his life
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he is scared of most things,including ewes
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but is a nice lad
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I've got one! My first dog! He is a rescue collie, we got him at 8 weeks old, he is nearly 5 months now. Beautiful temprament, although I found his early puppy stages a bit difficult as he was my first pup.


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I have two red/white border collie brothers they will be five this year. When we first got them we leased our own yard so they were out with someone all the time, unfortunatly we no longer have that yard and are now on livery so they do spend longer indoors, they are quite happy indoors but feel sorry that they are not out running most of the day like they used too! I don't regret one bit having them but wish i had the time to do something like agility with them, that would be great fun, i may try and get to some summer training classes. They are well behaved and one of thems best friend is a budgie!
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Meet Sosage & Chippy!
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Thanks very much H_Y! They were very hard to find, they seem to be getting more common now. When i'm walking them some people and stop me and when i say they are border collies they say "they don't come in that colour"!
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I have an 18 month old blue and white border collie. I got him at 8 weeks as an extremely nervous pup - the whole litter had been very badly abused. He is still wary now of men that he doesn't know, but otherwise he's doing great. He is from working stock (the farms working bitch and working dog came together at the wrong time! The resulting litter put the bitch out of work which made the farmer angry and he took it out on the puppies). He has a short tail from an accident with a door and a pair of scissors (!) before the litter was rescued and he has an overshot jaw which gives him a long, pointy, lurcher-like face. People are always asking me if he is a lurcher because of his face and his colour, but no - he is definately all border collie.
He is 'just' a pet, but I'd love to get him into obedience, agility and/or flyball - he'd love any or all of those. He is extremely obedient and just loves doing tricks and getting praise. He comes out with me on the New Forest when I ride my horse and he loves being able to run at top speed alongside us
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In the past I've had a border collie x retriever and then a border collie x german shepherd. I love border collies - I think I will always have one.
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Weve currently got 3 but have had 3 others. Currently got:
Poppy: who is out of cattle stock


Tag: who is out of registered trialing stock - sister of Bramble

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I have a 13 year old border collie - straight working ISDS stock. Her mother was a cattle-dog and her father was a sheep-dog. She has never had the slightest interest in working sheep but she would work cattle and horses any day of the week. She actually did work the horses for me in her younger days but now I spend most of my time watching out for her as her hearing is failing now and she has slowed down a lot in the past couple of years. Poppy has been an absolutely fabulous dog - she's my dog of a lifetime
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My other collie is not purebred. She is a straight cross by 2 pedigree dogs; her mother was an ISDS working strain collie and her father was a working strain Springer Spaniel. Lily is 5 years old and has just as strong a working temperament as Poppy, but her's does not lie in the collie part of her, she is a fantastic flusher. That is her job and one to which she excels. She's quite a cute little dog actually - everyone loves Lily as she is such a happy little thing.

I've had both of these dogs since they were 6 week old puppies. I also have a big black Shepherd dog who is absolutely wonderful.

Lily on the left and Poppy on the right; this picture was taken just a few weeks before they flew to Canada with me.

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we have 6 border collies, 5 are working sheep dogs. the other one is mine and isnt interested in rounding up sheep, athough he has made a rather good gundog and now points, flushes and retrieves! my grandad used to think he was useless but since his friend told him how tomba (my dog) did one of the best retrieves he's seen he's gone up in his opinion!
i love collies and would definatly get another.
 
basil was from a farm we got him when he was 7 years old as they where going to have him PTS even though there was nothing wrong with him. so i took him home! he was used for rounding up cows and he still like to fetch the ponies in for me! can be keen though when they dont do as he says, so have to keep a watch on him. he is also very sly with cats he waits until i'm not there then gets them!!!
 
i think this is tomba pointing the rabbit, although this is my first piccie on here, so i appologise if i get it wrong!


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That wasn't the name I'd heard of. I shall have to look it up.

He's real beaut though isn't he.

I think he should have pups.

Although he's a bit of a pain in the @@@ - chickens and rabbits beware!
 
of course i don't mind,we have far too many (well its feels like it at the moment)last night my OH's just weaned colt got out of his stable and was running around with the stallion whilst another 3yr colt was threatning to break out too
went out at 11 pm to walk the dogs last thing at night and thats what greeted me !!
had to catch the stallion and lead him into a stable so baby would follow,the stallion was most miffed the baby kept trying to suckle him.
he is such a good boy there aren't many i would do that with in the pouring rain and in the dark,didn't do much for the stinking cold i've got though.
 
I resisted horses for years but OH has always been into them as are younger children. They've finally converted me after making me splash out on a riding arena. There was no way I was going to fork out all that money without getting one myself.

I'm so glad I did. I love him to bits.

I'll have to get one of those photobucket pages to put is picture on.
 
I don't show them, unfortunatley they are not KC reg, their mum and dad was working paremts but not reg. I would love to have the time to do agility with them, hopefully this summer i may have ago, they really realy need to be doing something like that. Have to agree there some gorge dogs on this post, very interesting post!
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