Xdow, I love that video of Jake and the budgie! Border collies do such funny, random things.

He's gorgeous; looks really fit and intelligent.

thanks
they do, it's one of their more endearing qualities!


does anyone elses collie though, think it's a lap dog sometimes?
jake seems to think he is

he's 21.5" to the shoulder - FAR from a lap dog!

Some great looking dogs on here.

Just wanted to say for me, they are the best dogs so clever and intelligent, my dog benji likes to stamp his feet if your not paying him enough attention, amongst many other little funny things he does.
Heres some pictures of him from boy to man, my best friend in all the world.

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Aww i have a border collie too..Taff..They are very good intelligent dogs..Taff is nearly 14, bless him , he follows me around the house, like a big black sheep he is

Awww What a handsome fella !

I grew up surrounded by working Border Collies and always wanted one of my own - it took me until I was 30 to get one.

Byron was an abandoned puppy I found in the park pond where some indescribable person had drowned his 3 siblings. It wasn't a good time for me to gain a dog, or so I thought. My marriage was breaking up fast and I was terrified of the future but I took the little scrap of fluff home. I was only going to keep her until I could find a good home for him.

3 days later my ex left and I got on with life with my dog, only as a temporary measure because I wasn't keeping him.

Ten years later, someone reminded me that I was meant to be finding him a home but it didn't seem worth the trouble by then. So he stayed with me until the day my heart broke and he died from liver failure at the age of 17. He was noisy, arrogant, completely random and the best companion anyone could ever wish for. We had a constant battle over who was boss and once in a while he'd let me think I was winning. He made me laugh and on the darkest days of my life, he was a reason to live.

He was a creature of habit and knew our bedtime - if visitors outstayed his welcome, he'd stand at the bottom of the stairs, look at the visitors and then the door and repeat ... then start barking at them until they took the hint. When he was in a car he thought the louder he barked, the faster we'd get there.

I'll always miss him. I've had another dog since but can't have one at present. We've already talked about getting one when we retire and although we've discussed retired greyhounds and all manner of other rescue dogs, and although my head says we may be too old for another BC, my heart will always say no other breed will do for what will be the last dog I own.

Thanks andy.

And fizzy, great story love the bit about your dog and the visitors, made me laugh, 17 years was a great age and im sure he had great times with you..

He's brilliant. How old was he in the first picture?

Redterra, your dog is gorgeous!
Fizzy, what a lovely story - I'm not surprised you couldn't give him up, it sounds like he came at a time you needed him.

Thanks jack and dont quote me on this but i think he must have been about 18 or nineteen weeks old, hes now three.

And thanks moonbeam hes got a beautiful temprament too.
we bought him from a farmer, whos two dogs had, had puppies, for eighty pounds, he was living in a metal like caravan with his brother and he came bouncing out,
he and his brother were the only puppies left, all the girls had been sold.
he was my birthday present from my other half, the best present i have ever had.
on the day we was due to go and get him the other half told me and asked me if i really wanted a dog, which i did, had been on about a border collie for ages.
My one regret though was having to leave his brother behind, i kick myself all the time about that and if i could of afforded the other one aswell he would have been here too with me.
I just hope and pray he also found a nice life for himself.

My Bailley is the same...he is in the TV room with his daddy (my hubby ) with TV up loud...wee soul is petrified of them

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what a stunning dog.....he is beautiful

awwwww...that video is lovely

My first dog after getting my own home was a blind border collie/Cavalier cross called Taz. Taz
He was brilliant, mad as a box of frogs of course, but he certainly made life fun.

We lost him in 2007 and vowed never to get another dog, but the house was too empty so we found Barney a collie/springer pup who coincidently had been born on the day Taz died, it just seemed right so we took him home 3 months after we'd lost Taz. He's also mad as a box of frogs and bloody hard work, but I couldn't imagine life without him. Barney

We have a border collie and he's also as mad as a box of frogs - he was a rescue dog that we acquired aged about a year old in April and I can't believe how well he's settled in with us and how far he's come on with regard to training.

He loves the fireworks at the mo, well loves watching them out of the window anyway, not so keen on the loud bangs when he's out having a wee! He also loves sitting in the window just like a cat would so he can watch the traffic up and down the road... oh and he also thinks he can sit on people's laps too

He's a real sop too and is so caring and gentle it's unbelievable - for all his faults and mad habits he has a fantastic nature and we'd really not be without him. We went to the kennels he was at for a 'look' because it wasn't the right time for us to get a dog and fell in love... we had to stop on the way home to buy fences to secure the back garden so spent the week before he came home rushing about trying to get everything dog-proof... and the first thing he did when he arrived was find the one hole we'd left and go to meet the dog next door

Tax is gorgeous
Barney looks like he's saying " What ?? - It was like this when I got here !"

My mum and dad's welsh collie is lush. She's a dooty merle and has two blue eyes with one that has perfectly applied black eyeliner along the top (well it looks like it anyway). She's one of the only dogs I know who will hold your gaze when you stroke her for ages.

She's very intuitive and has helped me out a few times when looking after my pa's animals when he's away. I don't know the commands so I just point and say go! She always does exactly what you want though.

It might well be time to break out the puppy pics

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that pink nose... didn;t last long but it was cute while it lasted


he was a massive pup for 8 weeks of age, biggest of the litter, but he chose me rather than me choosing him, crawled up to me along the floor acting all shy, then turned out to be a little horror for the next two years!
i can't find any of our mis at the minute, might have to go searching later, can't leave her out of this

What an absolutely gorgeous pup.

I think the youngest one we ever had was around 3 Months old and they do grow up so quickly,

I'm a cat person, but BC's are superb dogs. My aunt and uncle had two and they were wonderful dogs, always remember Laddie rolling Punch the ginger cat in the snow and Punch, punching him on the nose

Years ago I went on holiday to Wenslydale, and a local farmer was giving a demonstration of his working dogs one evening.

He had 8 dogs at various stages of training, and as he introduced them, to the small group they stood up and the farmer told us their names and how old they were and how they were progressing. As he got to the last but one, he said this dogs name and that his training wasn't going well, and said that he would have to go, that dog knew what he said, because he immediately flopped to the ground and sank on his paws looking so sad.

We all thought that he had been trained to do that...as part of the entertainment, but the farmer assured us, that he hadn't as he had only recently decided that he wasn't going to keep him. If that was the case, then that dog had picked up on the farmers negativity. I have never forgotten that dogs face.

i am in love!!!!!!!!

Xdow those puppy pictures are gorgeous! What a sweetheart of a dog!

I'm currently trying to persuade a neighbour of mine to rehome her border collie / spaniel cross. The poor little pup is 5 months old and is never walked. She has learning difficulties and takes it out in a pram and refers to it as her baby. I rang border collie rescue but they won't help with a cross.

I have loads of photographs of our Rambo (R.I.P.) right from when she was a puppy, but my flaming scanner is broken so I can't put them on here