Border Collie

My first two dogs....

Perry (on the left) and Zena


Perry at about 12 months

Beautiful girls

crackers must remember to dig out my pics of our old boy Roy ( got him when I was 4 years old and we grew up together )

Yes, I'd love to see them! Border Collies were always my favourite breed....and then I found staffords! Bull breeds took over in a big way!

same for me I suppose , we did have a GSD when I was a baby but the parents rehomed him as he was destroying everything through lack of exercise , went to a family friend and a great dog after that

Roy 4- 20 yrs ( BC )
Ben 21- 28 yrs ( BC ) he lived until about 13 but never saw him after me hitting around 28 due to a big family fall out
Missed a few years then we had Dusty ( BC X ) and when we lost him 1 year and then Tilly

Between the collies & Bandit I had 2 x Tervuerens, 2 x GSDs and a Gsd cross. We only got a stafford because my oh didn't really like GSDs! Never looked back, although the training was so much easier with the collies!

My 2nd BC , Ben , I took to obedience etc as I was the only 1 in the house with a car and a regular work pattern , he was an absolute breeze to train

Bit of a jump from border collies to a bull terrier.

Zena (my first) was a 'difficult' border. She had her own mind (born from working stock) and would often decide whether or not she'd do what I asked. But when she was on form, she was amazing. Won loads of competitions at test C, but I never tried championship shows!

Zena was the one who embarrassed me something awful when I fancied the training instructor. We were doing heelwork & I was showing off a bit (a lot). The trainer said "Left turn", so I turned left. Zena didn't. I fell A over T right in front of everybody!  

Wish I'd seen that!

ECdogs wrote: Wish I'd seen that!

I'm glad you didn't!  

I'd love to have a border collie, but you need to invest a lot of time in them. We know somebody with a gorgeous blue merle border collie, but he's a very unpredictable dog because he's never exercised. Poor thing.