*Mike and Nick, 3/4 brothers*
*Nick, who is not thrilled about the camera**For carina
*Gael is in season and can't have her picture taken with her son and brother...
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Hmmm... I think that's the first time I've actually seen them outside of their crates! They're sleek-looking dogs, and I know they're all smart as a whip.
ReplyDeleteLol, yeah, their dietary preferrences require that they be crated for company. You know....the people eating part.
ReplyDeleteAwww....they are just lovely looking dogs! Is Nick all BC? He has such a smooth coat.
ReplyDeleteThank you! (Like the red carpet too.) :)
Thanks, carina,
ReplyDeleteNick is purebred and in fact his granddam was imported from Scotland. (He and Mike share a sire and Mike's dam is his granddam). I was really lucky to be able to buy Mike and Gael, as their parents were all successful trial dogs. Robin, Gael's sire, competed at the national level. Nick is Gael's baby by Mike's sire
Short coated border collies are actually common and acceptable. Although the long coated ones are pretty, the short coats are a lot nicer to take care of in burdock season. Gael is a "bare-skinned" dog as well. If you ever get a chance to go to a herding trial (not AKC) you will be amazed at the array of border collie shapes, sizes and coats.
Thess websites will also show some different dogs.
http://www.usbcha.com/
http://www.americanbordercollie.org/
I'd forgotten....all the ones I can recall from Scotland were rough-coated. Maybe there's regional differences there with working stock - but you're right about the different coats!
ReplyDeleteYours are really beautiful. :)
What beauties!
ReplyDeleteI had to come back and look at these dog photos again, and again I laughed. They look thoroughly disgusted with and shamed by this photo session. One would think that you had dressed them in pink tutus and put bows on their heads!
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