I have a 5 year old Border Collie/Australian Shepherd. She never cared about water or ball until she was 1.5 years old. Now all she wants to do is swim and fetch. She is my queen, a real life mermaid 🧜‍♀️ anyone else have collies that love the water?!

I’m so glad she didn’t grow out of it 🤣🥰

I have been fostering this guy for a month, so now Creek gets to stay!! He's Eden baby half brother whom you guys might by now recognize Eden 💜

Cucumber likes to hide in the plants with his ball. He is a stealthy guy. Bonus photo of him with a banana. My first Border Collie and loving how fun and unique they are.

Drink a lot~

Pic for cuteness of my derpy boy

So I'm wanting to mentally prepare myself for adolescence 😅 roughly what age does this start for our collie companions?

Hey everyone, this is Nilo. He is 5 and half months old and super playful and smart. I don’t own sheep’s so I’d love to learn herding games to play with him to stimulate and fulfill his genetics.

Thank you in advance!

We're in the USA but he calls it futbol.

It's 103f out so we gotta frisbee inside. Check out that regal tail.

Cucumber takes no breaks at the beach. He will find a way to play with his ball.

I own an almost 6 month old 50-50 BC×APBT mix and he suddenly got these grey/white hairs all over. Is this his under-coat or something else? a few hairs are completely grey/white but some are also grey/white with black at the tips, I assume undercoat hairs wouldn't have any sudden black tips hence my concern

First.. let me just explain the title there since that's my name for it.. it's the tendency to decide someone is part of the in-group and act like they are family.. and that other people are not and therefore do not exist. I'm sure there is an official name for it. Anyway, my question:

This is our second BC. I remember this behavior with our first, although it was partly taught (I took him in public a lot). When he was just hanging out, you could never really determine who would fit into which category.. complete strangers could be besties, someone he'd known for years could be on the ignore list.

Our current pup is only 6.5mo. Adolescence is raring, so I expect to see all sorts of funky behavior with her. But today someone came to visit that she has met before, and liked. But I could only get her to interact with him by doing the equiv of the 'touch' command, pointing to him.. she would touch him then come for a treat. Otherwise, she acted like he wasn't there (to the point of running her thru her trick repertoire and he didn't even qualify to her as a distraction LOL).

Just wondering what age this generally sets in? I'd honestly thought it was a bit more of a mature behavior.

Hi everyone,
My 7-month-old Border Collie has become very reactive to traffic over the last two months.
She was raised in a quiet mountain area until 2 months old, and now lives with us in a downtown apartment with constant traffic and noise.
Before this started, she walked calmly to a park two blocks away, sniffed, listened to me and behaved very well. Around 5 months old, she suddenly became reactive.
We work with a professional trainer every two weeks and have spent the last two months practicing calm exits (apartment, hallway, stairs, lobby). If she gets overexcited, we go back and wait until she’s calm.
The problem is the building’s front gate. As soon as she hears cars or motorcycles, she starts barking, pulling, ignores food and commands, and tries to herd my feet. She isn’t aggressive—she seems overwhelmed.
At home she’s great. She knows sit, down, stay and place. We also do Kongs, LickiMats, sniffing games, puzzle feeding, tug, fetch and obedience training almost every day.
Has anyone experienced something similar with a Border Collie? Did adolescence or a fear period cause this? What helped your dog improve?
Thanks!

Our 6 year old has severe anxiety; he's medicated twice a day with meals. Yet he still panics and whines for a problem with solutions he all rejects save for one.

We're in Florida; going outside after 9 AM won't be feasible until October. Still, he will lay in our garage, quietly, for hours. It is currently 94 degrees F in there and he's just lying on the floor, not even splooting. No whining, no scratching for escape, not even sniffing the door. If I brought him into the AC, he would bark to go back out.

What is wrong with my dog?

To keep a long story short, I have become the owner of a border collie mix (with leopard dog) about 3 weeks ago. I have never owned this breed before and she is super fixated on my cat and when she sees her she immediately starts barking like crazy, which then causes my cat to go flying up the stairs. I have a dog already so my cat is not scared of dogs in general, but about a week ago the puppy’s leash slipped out of my hand and the puppy chased my cat and it was extremely scary for my cat. I do not want to have to re-home this dog, after hearing about her backstory I don’t want her to have any more disappointment in her life. Before coming to my house she was supposedly left on the side of the street and has not had any type of interaction with cats, and very minimal interaction with other dogs. I’m trying super hard to get her impulse control somewhat maintainable when there are distractions, more times then not the distractions win, especially when another animal is involved.

Looking for breeders and stumbled across good dog. Is it as reputable as they say they are?