Help - Which breed of dog?

marshallka

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

My window cleaner, who is a single middle aged chap, has a lovely border collie, Tige (after an old Jin Reeves song apparently) - he is devoted to him, and takes him out three times a day, every day, rain or shine, for a minimum of an hour each time, (often much longer).

Their first walk is at about 6am, every day, winter and summer, and all their walks are mostly off lead through the fields... then when they get home, because the dog is still raring to go, he plays football with him on the back garden!! As a result, the dog is a happy and steady and a pleasure to be around.

However, a lady up the road has a young border collie, which is waked on decent weather days for about half an hour or so, all on-lead (understandable, as she has several children too, who she takes out at the same time) and the dog is hard work, scared of everything, barks, is hard to walk on the lead and anxious. It is no fun trying to manage a nervous dog and keep en eye on your little ones. Her owner finds walking her a chore as she is so hard work. I suspect sooner or later, they will feel she is too much work, and let her go.

I have no doubt that if the window cleaner and tha lady swapped dogs, the nervous dog would become much steadier, and Tige would be climbing the walls...

Collies can be super in the right homes, but not everyone has the time and energy to devote to the amount of exercise and stimulation they need, and an under exercised collie will be a problematic dog, in most cases.

That was me you were talking about years ago :eek:but i am still here 8 and half years later. A dog is for life. We just do our best with him. He would not be happy anywhere else cause hes OUR dog.

Paradigm

Four pages of replies yet the original poster has yet to acknowledge any advice/suggestions!
The thread has now moved on to a general discussion of everyone's favourite breeds... as a dog lover it's enjoyable reading but not really "on topic"

hflower74

The OP replied twice on page 2

Paradigm

hflower74 wrote: »

The OP replied twice on page 2

Yes indeed but saying what? "I live here" & "ooh there's lots of rescue centres"

The question was.... What breed of dog? & many members have given their time to offer advice but in response... nothing!

I'm sorry but this is a pet (no pun intended) hate. Asking for advice on forums like this is easy... the following courtesy is the hard part

jamsandwhich

Paradigm wrote: »

Yes indeed but saying what? "I live here" & "ooh there's lots of rescue centres"

The question was.... What breed of dog? & many members have given their time to offer advice but in response... nothing!

I'm sorry but this is a pet (no pun intended) hate. Asking for advice on forums like this is easy... the following courtesy is the hard part

I get where you are coming from - I have actually deleted posts because the OP hasn't had the decency to thank anyone for their time in replying or respond to the thread after the initial post. Doesn't do any good I know, but makes me feel better! Unfortunately it goes with a forum with thousands of visitors, not everyone is polite.

Have enjoyed re-visiting though and reading peoples experiences. I lived opposite a family who had a border collie as a pet - they never walked it and it was sad because you could literally see it going mental with frustration weekly. They had it put down in the end because it bit someone who leaned over the garden fence - very sad.