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I'd gotten my new red kelpie the week before, so I cried like a baby, the lady at the ticket box was handing out tissues lmao!

A Papillon, some JRT's can be good although they can be very high energy, border terrier or australian terrier (although I don't know much about their dancing ability hehe), poodles would be fantastic!

I can see why people love Border Collies...they are....special

OK Cons of getting another dog are... (channeling my mother here) More poop, unknown how your dogs will accept it, even the most well bred pup can have temp issues, not just regular vet bills but unforseen bet bills that make it harder to pay off regular payments for your other dogs, more food, your other dogs training can go backwards when you bring in a new dog, the whole up 5 times a night thing again, more exercise, more barking (depending on breed and individual dog), who will look after an extra dog when you go away. Pros (channeling myself now lol) the more the merrier, it can add a beneficial dynamic tyour pack, gives you incentive to do more things, you can explore new avenues of pet ownership, you become even closer friends with the vet, more love and generally more fun, also character building

I'm engaged but my fiance lives in America and studies so financially speaking I'm single. I live alone normally although staying with my mum right now. I own 4 dogs, but due to one dog being very attached to one of my mum's he stays here with her. 3 dogs is my limit financially. I also have a cat.

Well of course they'd cry if given a mere Kelpie. Everybody knows that Border Collies are supreme beings Apologies, couldn't help myself Resume normal programming I will not bite...I will not bite hehehehe

Mags LGDs are known for just barking because that's their main defence system. The booming bark is what alerts possible threats to their presence and wards of predators. That's why we have to lock our Maremma up at night, or he'd bark non-stop

Hahahaha you poor thing! Some nights I swear the Maremma here is protecting me from burglers he's created in his head...

I have aLurcher girl (greyhoundXFoxhound) she's everyones best friend and loyal to the world. She sometimes barks and we go out expecting people and find her barking at a bug. She only ever barks at bugs or at the other dogs if they're ignoring her. She's useless as a guard dog so luckily we have the maremma for that

I heard a saying a lot when I was growing up "Never give a Kelpie to a man with Border collies, unless you want to see him cry" I guess it's because BC's are such people pleasers and thrive on being trained and love doing, whereas kelpies are more, "I know how to do this, shut up" kinda dogs. My kelpie also gets really annoyed at me if he thinks he's been treated unfairly and will make it known by being a butthead for the rest of the day. He's also slower to catch on but once he learns it he knows it for life, this doesn't guarantee that he will perform it every time. Sometimes he questions my judgment. I've spoken to a few Canadian farmers who prefer them over any dog, and UK farmers who can't believe we use them so much and value borders much more. Although english sheep are pretty quiet compared to the rough, wild stuff we get out west.

My mum lived in the city for 16 years when she was younger, she lived in the bush before that and had acquired a red kelpie working pup from a local farmer, she said the dog was the laziest apartment dog she'd ever met, it hardly ever got walked and it would just happily hang out in the apartment all day. She said she was a lovely dog. I'm thinking that it's truly down to breeding, training and the individual dog... I seriously need to do some research haha (new project yay)

well keep him in the house and when you're home let him out and keep an eye on him. I've ended up doing that for my girl, as I don't have the money for a super duper run

All the farmers around here don't really like the ANKC, I've heard that they're the pretty city cousins and a rip off of the real kelpie etc... I think they're nice dogs (I've met a few), never put them on sheep though. That's why I thought I'd ask, as views seem to be one sided around here

I feel your pain, my rescue could live in a high security prison and she'd still get out... I'm pretty sure they're like the dog versions of Alex Mac, they just morph into liquid and go out through the drain pipes.

Hey Snake Catcher, what kind of snake was that?

The best thing to do is pick them both to be rehomed then whichever one you can't part with or have doubts about or feel horrible about rehoming more is the dog you keep. If training doesn't work of course

After every meal my dog will bark 5 times to make sure the food didn't kill his voice box. at 6:30 every evening my lurcher will circle the property twice sniffing the fence all the way around. Ay 8:30 the maremma will start barking at everything and has to be put to bed and at 5:55 every freaken morning the jack russell will stick his tongue in my ear signalling day break....

My keyboard is officially in need of rehoming..

I didn't mean to make assurances, this is what it sounds like to me, sicne the dogs were fine before. i had a similar thing happen. Jumping the gun and rehoming the dog for somethign that could possibly be rectified will be sad for everyone involved.

My working kelpie pup is the calmest pup I've ever had, he is highly interested in working but when he's not playing with the ducks he's laying around in the sun. he's also super serious and not a very playful puppy, he's all work and no play haha

I had to rehome a GSD once, got her a as a pup but her prey drive was too much for our cats to handle, after 2 years of behaviourists I spoke to a friend in canberra who had always loved her and we decided it was for the best. I think in 4 week if you keep up with a strict training schedule the dogs will get along again, it's the stress of moving on top of territorial behaviour and dominance

Mine are mainly dogs I've worked with here and overseas and love

I haven't even bought for the none furred family members yet. hehe. But if my dogs were to request something I'm pretty sure it would go like this. Baxter: Dear Santa, please make all the other dogs be replaced by giant bowls of chicken. Nelson: Dear Santa, I want a new really expensive bed that takes mum ages to pick out so I can just destroy it in 5 minutes again. Telly: Dear Santa, can you bring the old fence back because I could get into the neighbour's yard and steal bones a lot easier back then. Bonnie: Dear Santa, please bring me my own personal olympic sized swimming pool so my watery ethusiasm doesn't empty 3 baby pools in 10 minutes and cause localised backyard flooding. Ammo: Dear Santa, please make the humans stronger so that when I come running at them with 70kg full force they don't get splattered all over the drive way. Hank: Dear Santa, please provide me with my own personal rose garden so that I can express my horticultural expertise and flowery creativity without human criticism. and me Dear Santa, if you give me a puppy for christmas you're officially on my naughty list.

I'm in love with that thread, as soon as I get a camera that works that thread better watch out lol