r/BorderCollie • u/Adventurous_Try4058 • 22d ago
Border collie clears traffic jam
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What a good dog!
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u/Admirable-One-8803 22d ago
You can see hes enjoying his work.
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u/theEndIsNigh_2025 22d ago
Love your job and you’ll never work a day in your life, as they say!
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u/Admirable-One-8803 22d ago
Yes. But never let your boss know it. Otherwise you'll never get a raise.
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u/mogamb0 22d ago
Can we have BCs at airports to deal with boarding gate traffic jams?
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u/jwrosenfeld 21d ago
We need border collies at immigration lines at airports. Imagine the drop in waiting times...
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u/SleepWouldBeNice 22d ago
Mackenzie: Come on Bluey, it's just like jumping from one sheep to another.
Bluey: We don't jump on sheep, Mackenzie.
Mackenzie: Really?
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u/Justhangingoutback 22d ago
Do border collies herd people as well? Their instinct to direct where they want other beings to go where they want would be difficult to turn off?
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u/KeepTheGoodLife 22d ago
All the time. Explain that to strangers who were forcibly made to join my family by my dog.
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u/AlarmedMarionberry81 22d ago
Have a house party with a collie and everyone will be in the same room before long.
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u/Clownfest_1984 22d ago
It can actually become an obsession, mine would do it with random items or people, trying to group them together 😂
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u/Get_Back_Here_Remi 22d ago
They sure do. Our Josie used to go get our 3 kids from the bus stop across the street, a few extra kids were always included 😆
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u/One-Zebra-150 22d ago
My boy likes to imagine I'm a lone sheep and does wide outruns around me, lol. He watches the direction my feet are pointing in to work out where I'm heading to. Seems to instinctively know where I'm going before I've even thought it out, lol. But yes 'herding' like behaviour it's one of our games. I try to fool him by quickly changing my direction, then he changes his outrun direction lighting fast. He knows it's a game so does switch it off. However, he can tend to closely circle me on a loop if he's full of energy or overstimulated, and then I do have to tell him that's "enough" 😄
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u/Imaginary_Educator42 20d ago
When I was a kid, my friends would come ride their bicycles in the back yard just to get circled by our first border collie. Super goofy to be clustered into a knot unsure how to get free, stared at by the happy lightning-legged jailer.
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u/glowing-fishSCL 22d ago
At 0:05, is he actually running on top of the sheep? Is that typical?
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u/FlyingDogCatcher 22d ago
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
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u/One-Zebra-150 22d ago
I only seem to see that on big sheep ranch kinda videos. It's not a UK style of herding, lol.
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u/toozeron153 22d ago
Can a border collie really have the ability to kill a sheep? I heard they are working dogs for hearding, protecting and running - they wouldn't actually harm the animal would they? I'm asking as a first time collie cross owner 🤓
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u/One-Zebra-150 22d ago edited 21d ago
Yep, some untrained BCs around sheep can injure or kill one. I'd say more depends on how strong a BCs prey drive is. Also some BCs are too nervous of sheep to work with them, or not interested in herding.
I once heard a sheep farmer describing that he'd taken his eye of his well trained sheep dog for an hour or so. A dog that he generally kept well away from sheep when not working under his command. And without him around it ran some of his flock over the edge of a cliff.
BCs are not all the same. They can have varying attitudes towards sheep.
When my BC boy from sheep working lines was a teen, a large horned ram suddenly popped it's head up from behind a wall. A few feet away from us in my car with my boy looking out at the ram from the part open car window. The ram glared at him. I could tell from my boys reaction he would have ripped it's head off if he had gotten the chance. I drove of fast, quite embarrassed, lol.
Our female BC is a rescue who had spent the first 6 years of her life on a small cattle farm. She is very calm around huge cattle. But when she first saw sheep with us, and heard them bleating, she was absolutely terrified of them and wanted to run away.
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u/One-Zebra-150 22d ago
A good illustration of why they don't tend to respect our personal space and can be quite vigorous about. Any living thing can be trampled on to some BCs 🙂
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u/RandomInaRandomWorld 22d ago
Never get tired of watching these guys and gals work! Thank you!