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I am currently pretty excited that my border collie's whites are whites again now I have moved! No more stupid comments about their colour! woohooo

Shelties are wonderful dogs. This will be my breed choice when I am older :)

My mum has had shelties and corgis in her 60s.

You might want to consider what you are going to tell the breeder too. I can pretty much guarantee that most breeders are going to have a fit if you say you want to buy a puppy for your mum for Xmas. Just a warning :)

What about a Cavvie?

If mine are barking at the fence they get a stern STFU. I never tell them off if they bark if people actually enter the property though. That gets a 'good job'. Hopefully they will work out what I want.

Woohoo! Go Lucy and go you!

Or just give them your lounge chair and they'll drop all by themselves :laugh: They even close their eyes on command Dogs on furniture?

I think with a high drive dog it is more about constant training as in NILF type stuff rather than being able to train your dog for an hour every day. Just stuff like when you are going to the washing line saying to the dogs 'lets go to the washing line' and maybe asking for a drop when you get there. And being very consistent.

So sorry for this horrible ending for little Orange Is it possible that she has actually been loose this whole time rather than with people?

Not adequate on their own. Fine as an extra measure. But it also depends on the block a bit. My boss uses one and it fences the back of the block so it isn't like his fluffies are running the fenceline on the street.

Most of the ones I see are imports :) There was a litter earlier this year between a US import and the granddaughter (I think) of a Tri Ch which would have been heaven if I was in the market for a puppy/herding Aussie! As a consolation I still get to cuddle with one of the pups from the litter sometimes, she's already a tiny superstar :D This is what I think the other times :laugh: though inserting Mal or BC instead of Aussie Shepherd. There is something about the look in the Kelpie's eyes . . . There really is isn't there :) OH was having a bad day today so I sent in the kelpies and suddenly all was forgotten :) Also I think I should get the hang of training a stong-eyed dog before trying to switch to a loose-eyed dog and getting myself all confused! Also buying well-bred, well raised dogs I'd miss out on all the "fun" of dealing with the myriad of issues the rescue dogs came with :laugh: Some of my friends have young dogs just starting out in competition, and others have dogs that are almost ready for competition, all of them PHENOMENAL! Sometimes makes me tempted to change teams with the next dog You know you want a BC

My dog would pass this test but she would fail in the situation that the OP was talking about.

The reason that I would report an inadequately contained dog is to prevent a serious incident. I am going to feel like shit if I read that some little old ladies dog has been mauled by this dog next week.

Agree. Causes lots of frustration.

I don't know why it deemed unfair. Many dogs are territorial creatures and they don't know how to read titles down at the council - for many dogs, if they got out and someone was 1m away from their fence line they would deem the person person to be in their territory. Yes and this has happened to me once at my last house and isn't an experience I would like to repeat. The dog only has to get out once for there to be a tragedy. In a lot of the bad attacks the owners have said that the dogs haven't done anything before. Being behind a fence and constantly having to defend their territory from people walking past must cause frustration in the dogs. I wouldn't want to put my dogs into a situation that caused them anxiety.

Really? The fence was chain mesh by the way so I could see the dog quite clearly.

Most of the time you don't know the dogs are there until you are level with them so you can't cross the road. What I suggest is people don't keep their dogs in the front yard. I have been a instructor for quite a number of years so think I have a fairly good understanding of an aggressive dog.

There is zero doubt in my mind that if it had got out that it would have bitten the dogs. It has been the only dog that has bothered me. The rest have all been noise.

So after a month of living in the burbs my current pet hate is dogs that are in front yards. This is contained dogs, not loose dogs. They all go totally nuts when you walk past, understandable. I wonder if this is building a level of frustration in these dogs that could lead to attacks if the dogs did get out one day? I wouldn't have mine in the front garden as apart from anything else it would piss me off hearing them bark all the time. One dog yesterday was very alarming. Definite desire to inflict injury. Would you report a dog like that? The dog that has made me jump the most though was one that gave a massive big sniff as we went past :laugh:

A month from moving from red dirt and my borders have white whites again! wooohooo. No more stupid comments about their colour! I haven't washed them either. No shampoo I tried got them really white on the red dirt. I preferred the Equinade Glo White to Champion Tails. The more purple the colour of the shampoo usually the stronger it is.

My current dogs were raised outside and are embarrassingly friendly. No issues with toilet training either. They are no different to the previous ones that were raised in a house.

Nope, two people fighting, dog attacks its owner. Think about why a dog would do that peeps. The dog simply chomped down on the nearest available flying limb.

You don't know what interaction/attention/love this puppy is getting. Neither does the OP.

Sorry that Jed didn't make it. RIP Jed