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Border Collies and other working dogs' InsaneJournal:
| Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | |
| 3:39 pm | The Westminster Kennel Club | 2010 Breed Results: Border Collie The Westminster Kennel Club | 2010 Breed Results: Border Collie |
| Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | |
| 7:30 pm | |
| Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 | |
| 4:49 pm | Gocomics.com Speed Bump May 02, 2010 from www.gocomics.com |
| Friday, July 16th, 2010 | |
| 2:37 pm | written test The Other Coast July 16, 2010 from www.gocomics.com © 2010 Creators Syndicate - All Rights Reserved. Gocomics.com: Comics, editorial cartoons, email comics, comic strips |
| Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 | |
| 5:21 am | icons. I made some border collie icons because I can never find any, and I'm tired of favoring my other dog (a corgi) when I post. Then I wandered over here to share them and discovered that not only has  fantasium already made lots of bc icons, but they are infinitely prettier than mine! Oh well...(I'm not really too upset. My delight at finding a great icon maker much exceeds any feelings of foolishness.) No credit needed; I didn't take the photos. You are encouraged to use them as bases, especially if you share the results. |
| Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 | |
| 12:28 pm | Sheepdog trial pictures Yesterday we went to a local sheepdog trial so I could get pictures. I thought I'd share them with everyone! As you can see, the "herd" was only 3 sheep.  Dahlia watching me while I was taking photos.                  Herding fresh sheep up to the top!  This pretty girl was named Tessa and she was super friendly. She almost crawled in my lap.    Not a herding dog. lol  I think this dog's name was something like Merck.                Freedom!  OMG PUPPY.               Australian Cattle Dog puppy we met.  |
| Friday, April 30th, 2010 | |
| 3:21 pm |  Therapy dog training is coming along GREAT :) Ben walks through crowds right at my side, almost completely ignoring the distractions around him. Good thing there is the annual Corn-Ducky Derby coming up this weekend at the park down the street, there will be TONS of opportunities to get some training in. I would like to know if anyone here bikes with their dog, so I don't feel like I'm the only one on the planet that does. Ever since I started biking with him, he heels perfectly when we go for a stroll.       |
| Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 | |
| 11:03 am | Sponsored Walk I apologise to those of you who are going to see this WAY more than once, because I plan on x-posting it all over the place. At the end of July my dogs and I will be walking the entire length of the Fife Coastal Path (90 miles) in order to raise some money for the Dogs Trust. I've given myself a week to do it but expect to do it a lot quicker than that! The Dogs Trust is an amazing charity who will NEVER put a healthy dog to sleep, unlike some other rescues and rehoming centres. There is no such thing as an "unadoptable" dog, just a dog that hasn't found the right home yet! In fact, Dogs Trust's longest resident is a black lab who has been with them for an awe inspiring 6 years. Obviously looking after all the dogs they do takes a lot of money and the Dogs Trust is funded completely by donations from the public. Donations from people like you. I know times are hard just now but even a few pounds here and there will help dogs who need love, care, attention, shelter and food. So please, please, please go over to my JustGiving page and donate what little you can. I'll be taking my camera along and you'll be able to follow my adventures (post-event) (blogging on the trail is hard...) over at crazydogblog Thank you guys! And Thank You from the 1130 dogs currently in Dogs Trust rehoming centres throughout Britain. |
| Monday, August 16th, 2010 | |
| 4:44 pm | Dahlia explores her inner border collie I have a dog we believe is a mix of Border collie and retriever (she could also have Aussie in there instead). This weekend she met goats for the first time ever. (I hope this is allowed as she's a mix, not a purebred herding breed dog!) She first met them while they were in a pen. She was fascinated and tried to sneak under the fence to get in there with them.  Then the next time she met them while they were out loose in the yard. She spent a bit of time staring at them while they stood in place.  When they began to move, she began attempting to herd them...well, somewhere. We're not sure where, but it was pretty clear that she was trying to get them to move someplace. She followed them around and cut them off when they started running away from her. She ultimately ended up getting the baby goat into a pen (!!) and then went after Mama goat, which was when we decided the goats had probably had enough. It was pretty neat to watch. Here was the one picture I got of her attempting to herd the goats.  |
| Friday, September 24th, 2010 | |
| 3:40 pm | Agility Training? Has anyone here done agility training with their BC? I've been thinking of doing it with mine but am not sure where to begin. We've been playing a lot of frisbee and she's begun doing tricks for it, which is great to be moving away from food treats. These are pictures of my tri-colored pound puppy, Jane. She loves to herd rock crabs, chase the frisbee, learn tricks from the kikopup channel on YouTube, and cuddle.     |
| Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 | |
| 5:46 pm | Kiba Just wanted to say hello to the group and show off my dog Kiba.   I also had a question, since Kiba was a puppy he has always been very submissive. We have learned that you can't raise your voice at him to discipline, we have to actively redirect any behavior. He see's my husband as alpha and because of that if he perceives that he has done something bad he will pee a little. He has always done the OMG so excited pee but now my husband can pet him and he will pee, my husband looks at him he will pee. He just seems scared of my husband, my husband has never laid a hand on him and around me and the children Kiba never displays this behavior. We did get him from a shelter so don't have much knowledge of his previous owner so I don't know if this means he could have been abused as a pup or not. So I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I could make him more comfortable around my husband. Kiba is a great dog and wants everyone to love him, he wants to please us so much I just don't understand his fear. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks guys! |
| Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 | |
| 4:15 am | Pound Puppy Gains Some Pounds! Hey everyone out there, just posting some more recent pictures of Jane. I got her from the pound in June and she'd been picked up as a stray, had parasites, and patches of fur missing. She's turned out to be quite the head-turner, as well as being super smart, a great swimmer, running companion, crab herder, and a cuddle bug. She's about one year old now. You can also check out more of her on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55609547@N0 I'm new to Flickr so if anyone wants to add me, feel free!  These two are from the first or second day I had her, it's really shocking to me that she's the same dog.   Also, for some reason a few of the pictures are sideways when uploaded but not in the original files... no idea why that's happening, but I'm sorry! Here are two (sideways) pictures of Jane canoodling with our rescue cat, Napoleon.   Taking a nap from her study of Eudora Welty's "Ponder Heart." She just finishing up her Master's thesis.     Thanks for looking! |
| Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 | |
| 1:19 am | This Sunday, my friend, bonus-mother and breeder of my dogs had her 50th birthday! Instead of sending her a card, I made her this slideshow. Seeing as it's full of Border Collies, I figured I would share it with you as well. I hope you will enjoy it! :) x-posted to  phodography and doggypictures, sorry if you had to see this several times! :) |
| Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 | |
| 2:27 am | Rocky  |
| Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 | |
| 12:26 pm | Another "Dahlia gets in touch with her inner border collie" picture Dahlia (my BC/retriever mix) likes to "herd" the ducks and geese at our local park. She really tries her hardest but alas, these are wild ducks/geese and as soon as she gets anywhere near them, they fly off. Here's a picture I got of her stalking them this past weekend.  I'm a lot further away than it looks like, BTW. I was using a telephoto lens. |