She actually honestly looks about the same size as my Border Collie. Mine is only 50lbs and she's pretty small overall. She was definitely the runt of the litter and only got to 50lbs because she's in incredible shape and really muscular.
There are some pocket Border Collies that are small. I knew a sweet white and tan that was the same size. But that face, while adorbs, is not Border Collie.
Papillon + Border Collie = quick and smart as a whip! There’s no better combo for primo doggo mix! 🥰 You can really see the papillon in her at the end when she’s being held. It’s that “eager” look. What a cutie pie.
And, crucially, gets the dog into a lower size class, where there are fewer border collies. If you can compete where there are next to no full borders, you've got way more chance of winning 😂
The 8 inch class is dominated by Papillion to almost the same extent the taller height classes are by border collies. It's not unusual to see it be Papillion, Shetland, collie, collie in the increasing height classes.
Yeah doesn't surprise me at that height. In the UK, generally our smallest category is 350mm (13.7inches), so that covers a lot of very small spaniels (which I suspect are being crossed with paps somewhere along the line to make them that small).
But I guess there's a reason that "anything but collies" comps exist, categories with lots of collies tend to be a one-breed race. If you can make a tiny collie, it's gonna excel.
They get their name from the long whispy hair beneath their ears that runs down their neck, giving the ears and mane a ‘butterfly wings’ shape. I’ve got a papillon x rat terrier mix (rat-a-pap), I swear the papillons, they’re a type of dog that knows how incredibly smart and pretty they are. 😄
I would put black lab border collie up there too, as long as you live in the country and have a very active 4 year old who likes to spend all day every day playing outside with them and being herded around!
Yes! I bet you have a lot of fond memories of Rocket 🙂. Mine was named Sam. Between Sam and I, and a calico cat that never really got a real name, we had a lot of fun together when I was a little kid. I called the cat "kitty," my mom and most other people just called her "the bitch." She got to be ~20lbs and was just a menace to most living things, but she was always best friends with me and Sam. She would curl up and cuddle with both of us, even play fetch in the yard. She couldn't pick up a frisbee of course, but she would get wicked excited if Sam missed it and she beat him to it on the ground!
My sister had a border collie x German shepherd. She was the size of a border, was orange for some reason, and the face and huge fluffy tail of a German shepherd. She was mental. And hilarious. She loved nothing more than digging a hole and sitting in ilthe cool dirt. She lived til 15. Her name was Sasha 🧡
That sounds like a really fun mix! My grandfather got mine as a very young puppy shortly after I was born, and since there was no daycare at the time I spent almost all day every day at their house. He even helped me learn how to walk by standing very still while I stood up leaning against him and slowly moving to the side 😂. I remember trying to harness him to my sled to pull me around the yard one winter - he tried his very best, but it turns out I was not in any way skilled enough to make that work.
Man do they take their jobs seriously. I'm glad my grandparents were (mostly) retired when they adopted him. My grandmother trained him to pick up weeds and put them in the wheelbarrow when she was weeding her gardens and my grandfather would take him for rides everyday when he would go visit his friends to play cribbage. Grandpa also taught him to run off the groundhogs that would try to get in the gardens - he knew never to cross the property line, and he wouldn't attack them, he would just sort of aggressively herd them out. Anti-herding? Lol.
Boredom is always the danger! My big girl is very clever and very protective. She's done some doozies but never the same one twice, thank goodness. She caught her collar on the bottom dishwasher tray while trying to wash dishes behind my back and pulled the whole thing out when she panicked. A lot of plates died that day. But she not only hasn't done it again, she warns the other dogs from doing it, too.
I have one too, it’s a little scary how smart they are. She recently had surgery and figured out how to use the plastic cone as a ram to push stuff and a lever to open doors and cabinets.
I appreciate it. It's not bad to be corrected, even if just for the sake of conversation. This is my third language, and in online conversations I mostly go by browser autocorrects. It didn't proc this time for some reason. After checking it, I guess it's an obsolete UK form of spelling or something? It does still exist Merriam-Webster and Wiktionary.
Applaud would be the verb version of it. As in, "I applaud you" would mean I'm cheering for you. "Applauds" would be second person. IE He applauds you. Applause is the noun version of applauding.
Thanks. So it would have worked in the sentence if I had phrased it "as if appreciating their applauds and cheers", or something like that? Or maybe not..? 😬
"Their" is possessive. You can't possess a verb, so it should still be the noun. "their applause".
Edit: You could have wrote "their applauding". I have to admit I had to check this was right myself, it just didn't sound obviously wrong to my ear and ing can modify the verb such that it functions as a noun. Which is why I can use the word "ask" (a verb) like this "do you mind my asking". But "their applause" is still better, because "their applauding" when said aloud sounds the same as "they're applauding" which is even further from what you meant to say.
In that example, Applause would still be the accurate word. I don't think there's a way to work Applauds into this scenario as multiple people are clapping, and Applauds only works in the singular. As it's plural, it would be Applaud. "He applauds the dog" vs "They applaud the dog"
Decent shout. It's a singular implementation of a plurality. To me "The crowd applauds" and "the crowd applaud" both sound equally correct. There's a Terry Pratchett quote that uses both, so I assume both are grammatically correct, but I'm not an English major.
Good lord, I can't imagine having to rely on that piece of crap. Props to you for speaking a third language, I'm at my wits end with my first lol.
Edit: It's funny how I was a spelling bee champion as a kid and now I can't do a damn thing without the stupid computer helping me (or fucking me). But we've seen this before with calculators. Hey, as long as everyone can pick up what you put down I think it's all ok. Might annoy my English teacher, but at least you got the point across.
I had a collie mix who did agility years ago (of a much lower level) and he ABSOLUTELY knew when the applause was for him. he loved being the center of attention
If I run these obstacles really fast I will be a Good Dog!
If I run these obstacles really fast, all the thousands of people with smells I don't know will make lots of new noises I'll have to make sense of, and this will make me uncomfotable.
Being a Good Dog for my Person is more important, I will survive the discomfort.
That dog is absolutely expecting a treat. I don't think they're sad. "Working" dog breeds like a Border Collie absolutely love learning commands, doing them, and being rewarded.I obviously can't say if the owner is good during private practice with this dog, but the average Border Collie would absolutely love learning and running an obstacle course like this. A wolf would probably hate it, but this is a domesticated working breed, it's in their instincts to want to have a physically demanding task to do and receive praise after.
Holy shit, same. Mine will give you the look like he's been abused and neglected his whole life despite his fat ass getting a full second serving of dinner just 15 minutes prior (also because of the eyes). Little mfs border on psychopath tier manipulation sometimes lmao.
My sisters chiweenie does this. When I give him a treat and he wants another he looks at me and makes himself look so sad and pitiful. He even adds a little shake to his body to look extra pitiful lol.
Mine looks like that every damn time I try to stop on a walk or hike to take a photo. I was THE hardest child to corral for photos and now I understand my mom’s pain lol. I’m just trying to capture memories and this dog looks at the camera like I beat him daily because I dared to interrupt his blissful hike for 20 seconds.
Ha, I feel your pain. I have very few good pictures of my dog. He knows when the camera is coming out and either refuses to look at it in case it steals his soul or he pulls some sort of derp face with his tongue out as I take the photos.
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u/csixteen 2d ago
That face at the end, as if asking “Was I a good boy?”. Of course you were a good boy.