trenchfoot 4,243 Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 You guys are spot on,...Collies are incredably varied,.. in shape,..size, attitude,..etc, etc... I was brought up with herding dogs,...we had a fair few different types .... Some was good,...and some was not so fecking good... Obviously,.when choosing a sheepdog to create a lurcher,..it pays to look around for dogs that possess the traits you require.A good Collie is a great animal,..but a bad fecker,.. is pure trouble... there s a farmer not far from me with 2 small border collie bitches. I'm not a big fan of collie crosses but these 2 bitches are as rough as rough. They sleep wherever they can find shelter all year round and when we take the terriers ratting they kill as quick as the terriers do. I ve personally seen em take fox and they have stamina to burn. Will he let me put a good greyhound over one ? Will he hell. Miserable old txxt . Ask him if he knows of any males of the same breeding 2 Quote Link to post
TOM TERRIER 173 Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 That was filmed about 10 mile away from where I live, theres a few Welsh Sheep dogs about locally, seem nice things, look robust too Quote Link to post
jake824 517 Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 You guys are spot on,...Collies are incredably varied,.. in shape,..size, attitude,..etc, etc... I was brought up with herding dogs,...we had a fair few different types .... Some was good,...and some was not so fecking good... Obviously,.when choosing a sheepdog to create a lurcher,..it pays to look around for dogs that possess the traits you require.A good Collie is a great animal,..but a bad fecker,.. is pure trouble... there s a farmer not far from me with 2 small border collie bitches. I'm not a big fan of collie crosses but these 2 bitches are as rough as rough. They sleep wherever they can find shelter all year round and when we take the terriers ratting they kill as quick as the terriers do. I ve personally seen em take fox and they have stamina to burn. Will he let me put a good greyhound over one ? Will he hell. Miserable old txxt . Ask him if he knows of any males of the same breeding he had the mother of unknown breeding who got caught by another collie from a nearby farm ,who by the way was as mad as a box of frogs. Really high strung and would bite.The 2 bitches were the result of that mating . I would imagine the others perished as she would have had them somewhere in the farmyard. He keeps pigs and those bitches will take no pissing about off em. They ll run across their backs when we were ratting to make a catch in the next pen. They would stay with us when we were ratting but they never liked contact much.If we went round checking earths the smaller bitch would follow us and watch from afar and would be very keen when we broke through.i have nt been for a few years now but I always admired the pair of them 2 Quote Link to post
Neal 1,874 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 As anything else, its about the individual dog, not the breed. You guys are spot on,...Collies are incredably varied,.. in shape,..size, attitude,..etc, etc... I think these two posts sum up the main thing when considering using any pastoral/farm/sheep/cattle dog/collie. I remember in my very early days of lurcher ownership when I was living in Coniston with a first cross beardie x greyhound sired by Hancock's Remus. I saw a lovely scruffy beardie (or so I thought) wandering around the shops one day and followed it around for ages until I found somebody who could tell me who it belonged to. I eventually found out that it was a pet but was out of two working dogs on a farm bordering the old railway line so I went along to see for myself. The dam was a long-coated border collie type but the sire was a very long legged thing with a huge ruff...like a cross between a rough collie and a giraffe. Actually, a better comparison would be a maned wolf from South America; that's how disproportionate the ruff and legs were to the rest of the body. You'd never have guessed that mating those two together would have produced that lovely little goat lookalike that I'd seen in the village. The other dogs I remember liking the look of while in Cumbria were my ex-girlfriend's brother-in-law's working collies. They were all little things...not much bigger than a sheltie...and were extremely agile. One particular bitch used to sneak after whoever was collecting the eggs from the chicken pen and sneak in to get an egg every day. I always thought she'd be the perfect type to mate to a whippet. 1 Quote Link to post
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