Joss
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Hello, Does anyone have (or know someone who has) a smooth collie. They are a breed i have always liked (Lassie without all that hair!!). But I have never known one personally.
Smooth Collies
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prose
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I don't know them well, but a person at our dog park has a smooth collie. She is a lovely dog. She happens to behave *exactly* like a rough collie I know--a blue merle, called Romeo--meaning that she is sweet, friendly, good with other dogs, but tends to herd the smaller ones and barks A LOT.
FinnishLapphund
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I've had a Smooth Collie bitch, she lived to be 13 years old.
In Sweden the Smooth's are known to have a better temperament, if you go to the wrong Rough C. breeder you could get one that has all sorts of phobias, but since there isn't such a big demand for the Smooth ones, only the best is used for breeding.
If I compare my Collie with my Spitz, I'd say the Collie thinks a lot (and tried to think ahead of me), the Spitz takes it as it comes. But the thinking ahead of me was def. not in a negative/dominant way, her brain was more just like thinking well if we turn left up there, then we'll be going on a long walk and then...
She loved to talk, the howl/growling-kind of way, but rarely barkt. The coat never gets tangled, and the legs have just the right hight so that the front paws doesn't splash up any mud on the belly.
She USED here eyes a lot, I know she could spot the difference between quite a number of different breeds on a distance. And when she was sick (tore of a claw, on a saturday) she really disliked having that plasticthing around her neck that limited her seeing, but when the new seethrough ones came a couple of years ago and she had her uterus "removed" (on a sunday) she had no problem with the seethrough on at all.
She learn't new things up until a few weeks before she died (in cancer). She could outact any Oscarawardwinner if she could see any benefit with it, she could fake a pee
if she thought it would make us go in and have a treat!
I loved her, and maybe I'll get another one some day, but right now it just feels as if I've found my breed in the Finnish Lapphund.
from Sweden
In Sweden the Smooth's are known to have a better temperament, if you go to the wrong Rough C. breeder you could get one that has all sorts of phobias, but since there isn't such a big demand for the Smooth ones, only the best is used for breeding.
If I compare my Collie with my Spitz, I'd say the Collie thinks a lot (and tried to think ahead of me), the Spitz takes it as it comes. But the thinking ahead of me was def. not in a negative/dominant way, her brain was more just like thinking well if we turn left up there, then we'll be going on a long walk and then...
She loved to talk, the howl/growling-kind of way, but rarely barkt. The coat never gets tangled, and the legs have just the right hight so that the front paws doesn't splash up any mud on the belly.
She USED here eyes a lot, I know she could spot the difference between quite a number of different breeds on a distance. And when she was sick (tore of a claw, on a saturday) she really disliked having that plasticthing around her neck that limited her seeing, but when the new seethrough ones came a couple of years ago and she had her uterus "removed" (on a sunday) she had no problem with the seethrough on at all.
She learn't new things up until a few weeks before she died (in cancer). She could outact any Oscarawardwinner if she could see any benefit with it, she could fake a pee
I loved her, and maybe I'll get another one some day, but right now it just feels as if I've found my breed in the Finnish Lapphund.
from Sweden
Joss
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Thank you very much x
maxweg
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hello
hope this of some help. go to kennel club web site and get the contact details of the breed clubs secretary. they always will happily chat to you about the breed and who has any pups for sale.that way you know you are getting some sound advice on the breed.
p.s they arent that common. I show my border collie and you dont see alot of then at shows!
good luck
hope this of some help. go to kennel club web site and get the contact details of the breed clubs secretary. they always will happily chat to you about the breed and who has any pups for sale.that way you know you are getting some sound advice on the breed.
p.s they arent that common. I show my border collie and you dont see alot of then at shows!
good luck