How a working collie gets their kicks when no livestock are living out

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"I'll have 'em!"
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"I will, I'll have 'em"
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"I'm definitely going to have 'em now!"
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"I'm NOT a quitter!!!"
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Great pics, in Oz my kelpie used to chase cockatoos for hours, they just took off in front of her and landed straight behind. She used to run herself to a standstill.
 
We keep getting the sheep from the fields next to ours in our field at the moment, right pain - there is about 50 of them! Had my 2 well bred border collies with me (I do agility - but they are pure working lines) one just stood and stared, the other pegged it back home when he saw they moved!!
Don't think they'd even consider taking Geese on!
 
Your two are gorgeous! Is that a red merle with the branch in it's mouth? Stunning!

I must admit, Bess does start an "outrun" to the horse field but soon turns and comes back, barking as well, when the horses start trotting towards her. She's fine with the cows though, which is a good job!
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Problem with her is she loves to run after anything that moves....including cars!
 
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Yes he is a red merle - have a bit of a thing for merles
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Mine can do beautiful outruns and look quite professional - until the sheep move!! Which I should imagine wouldn't make them brilliant! They'd probably cope if there was 3 or 4 sheep but a flock of 50 bolting was just a bit too much!
My boyfriends 8 month kelpie x collie was up for a go though! Crossbreeds are so much braver than the flimsey pedigrees!!
 
OOOoo I am loving the Blue Merle now too! He/she has less coat than the Red. Ideal for our mucky farm life.

I dream of having a Blue Merle. The father in law wasn't bothered about colour, only gender, when we had Bess. I do like her as she's a little "different" being a tri-colour, but I'd have killed for a Blue Merle.
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How are yours with cats? We have feral farm cats here. Bess loves to chase them too!

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They don't really ever come across cats - we were thinking of getting one or two semi-feral cats for up at the stables but worried I might get my lovely dogs scratched! Especially as between the 3 of them they couldn't catch a field mouse the other day in the feed room - but one managed to get bitten by it!!

Thai (blue merle) is much easier as a farm dog, Cruze (red merle) is always being put in the shower as he comes back looking a right state!
I had to go all the way to Scotland to find my merles!

For a tri colour your dog is very pretty - is she the one I remember there being posts about when you were getting her/deciding whether to get her? She was quite small/ maybe younger than the breeder said she was? I thought she was really pretty then!
 
Yes, that's the one. She was clearly much younger than 8 weeks when we got her and covered with fleas. Bless her. She almost looks dead in this picture, taken the day she arrived.
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I am thinking we'll have to travel if we do go down the Merle line to find the one we want. Don't reckon we'd be able to breed one from Bess, given her colouring. Her mum was a red (I think they call them sable?) and her dad a standard black/white. I think if we do have another, I want to be 100% sure I get my first choice in terms of gender/colour...rather than breed anything. Probably cheaper too, given the potential costs and risk in breeding.

Of course, I'm torn anyway. I adore my Cocker and I can't decide whether to just have another Spaniel. I'm so indecisive!
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The shower sounds familiar. Jasper, said Cocker, spends alot of time being washed off. He might be black but he gets filthy having so much coat when it's muddy. Bess likes to roll in cow muck too. Silly girl as she hates having a bath but never learns!
 
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