Why I love border collies...

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Foxford

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- They are soft and love cuddles
- They are loyal and friendly
- More intelligent than most people!
- They have occaisionally been known to tire out (just kidding!)

I was thinking this evening, OH and I are hoping to get our second rescue dog this year. Our first one is a collie x corgi (accident on a welsh farm!) who we adore. OH is still desperate for a lab, but I feel people are put off by collies and so I want to give one a really good home.

So, any fellow collie lovers? Or anyone who homes dogs on the basis that noone else wants them?! Here is my wee fellow as a puppy...


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He is rather nice, isn't he!! My collie has been doing agility tonight, around our XC course!!! They are really fantastic dogs but can be challenging. I have had collies before and collie crosses but none as difficult as my present dog. I still love him to bits mind!!
 
Looking pretty
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Then, hippo in mud impersonation
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Flo is 'meant' to be a working collie on our farm, but spends more time 'reclining' on the leather chairs in my kitchen........
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Mine likes mud too, rolling in it especially, if it's got fox shite in it too, all the better. He had to have 3 baths in a weeks a while back!!!
 
god im glad mine doesn't like mud! just discovered he can swim! which is now really funny! (ducks are less impressed as a herding swimming dog is, in their minds, NOT GOOD! hehe)

Totally bonkers but does have the odd calm moments.....

definetly a keep you on your toes breed
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I'm a collie lover!
Have to say I wouldn't have one just as a pet though, they need a job, mine do agility
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Without that I don't think I could cope with them!
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Cruze
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Magic (colliexkelpie) rescue pup
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Ziggy (colliexBSD) rescue pup
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And coz everyone needs a gundog to even up a pack my Spanner Jasper, rescue as he was to hyper and destructive (so a collie in disguise I think!), I got him at 14 months old and he'd had 5 homes already

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Group shot of them all leaping of a rock on Dartmoor
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I ADORE collies, and have had them before, so I know that they can be quite difficult as they are highly intelligent and need endless amounts of exercise, but the one we have now ( officially my daughter's ) is the most amazing dog I have ever had, she is so obedient, intelligent and loving - can you tell I love her to bits!
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Really must figure out how to post a pic as she is really beautiful too!
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I love BCs, mine is an ex-worker who came to me at age 18months. It was an uphill learning curve but she had me trained and sorted in no time at all.

I did realise quite quickly that they need (and want) plenty of mental and physical exercise but it was great fun to learn the skills of obedience and then agility. After a few years she persuaded me to leave a lucrative career and become a dog walker. I think it's my business but in reality she comes along to lead the pack and to round up any stragglers. If you think I'm kidding I'm not, last week I was calling on a lab who was ignoring me. She clocked the situation and decided enough was enough and barked at the dog who promptly towed the line!!!!

She's always at my side and has never let me down. Her age is starting to show (12yrs) but she's not giving up.
 
I love my BC, shes just coming up a year and she makes me smile everyday...shes utterly obsessed with her tennis ball and drives everybody crazy herding their horses but i wouldnt have her any other way.....*she also loves cuddles on the sofa but we cant say it too loud as it affects her street cred*
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She loves to lay in anything remotly smelly but was not amused by her bath this evening!
Meg as a tiny puppy, so very cute....
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I am a fellow border collie fan
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I own ten of them, they drive me batty, most of them are rescues that no one wanted due to behaviour issues.
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We're currently looking to re-home a collie cross from a rescue place. Sadly it doesn't look like it will happen as new dog may have to live out in garden with a kennel on the rare days that OH and I are both at work on the same day! The Charity don't want to home a dog somewhere that it will be left unsupervised in the garden. Which is a real shame. I figured that hyperactive dogs like collies would prefer to be out rather than in?
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Any how, a Collie will be a new venture for me but hyper active dogs won't be as I used to have a Dally!!

Anyone know of a Collie in need of a good home - just in case this one doesn't come off with the rescue people. Shame though coz I fell in love with him!!
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Just waiting for a final reply.

OH wants to do agility and obedience, I want to do the showing
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but thats only because I haven't got any transport to get my horse out and about!!
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Showing the dog is the next best thing!!!
 
i love em
ours plays tennis, if you throw a tennis ball and say tennis he'll hit it back to you with his nose, if you say catch he'll catch it
but ours is 13 now and we are trying to persuade my dad into getting a puppy (me and my stepmum)

so if anyone knows of a Australian Sheepdog and or preferably a Tri-Coloured Border Collie for sale or rehoming that needs a good home and is ok with young children please let me know
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Lots of lovely collies - brilliant!!

My chap was impossibly difficult for the first 12 months - now he is perfect! They are totally worth perservering with, although they can be hard work. Perhaps that's why a lot of them get passed around so much.
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i love em
ours plays tennis, if you throw a tennis ball and say tennis he'll hit it back to you with his nose, if you say catch he'll catch it
but ours is 13 now and we are trying to persuade my dad into getting a puppy (me and my stepmum)

so if anyone knows of a Australian Sheepdog and or preferably a Tri-Coloured Border Collie for sale or rehoming that needs a good home and is ok with young children please let me know
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Wow what a clever dog!

We want a Kelpie or Kelpie cross Collie
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So anyone got one or two???????
 
I adore Bc's - had one growing up called Dopo and now have one called Blue.
He is absolutely fab with my son who is 4 and is a great footballer - he dribbles the ball back to you so you can kick it again for him.
He also talks to you and grins
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anyway here he is (we did not name him Blue, he was already called that when we got him at 4mths old - bit sad to have a blue merle called blue lol
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