Bright Young Things, or Life on the FB
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Originally posted by Anne Elk
You better have the time and a place to go RUN!! Border collies are great dogs, but they need lots of exercise and a job like herding kids, or sheep, or agility, or fly ball, or frisbee. If left to their own devices cooped up in a house all day, they can be quite destructive out of sheer boredom and frustration.
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Very true. We have a lab & my sibling has a border collie. The border collie is very sweet and is obedient when supervised, but the independent mind and the sheer energy require a lot of distraction. When my sib comes to visit with the dog, the lab, who has no ideas of her own, joyfully follows the border collie right into trouble. The border collie removed a gate in my yard from its hinges so that he could get out and explore the neighborhood. (I think he would have used the power screwdriver if he had had access to the toolshed.)
I once described the border collie as being like the cool cousin who teaches you how to smoke.
Anon because I have had numerous detailed discussions about labs,border collies, and other breeds at work
Edited to save your ass
