We are over the moon for Ruki! She is around 3-4 years old. Need to put some lbs on her. Any suggestions?

Thank you

I realized today that it's time to let my girl, Missy rest. I have contacted someone and am waiting to hear back from them.

It's hard but it's the best thing for Missy as she's in pain.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and kindness on my other post about her.

It's hard. 😢

My little man is officially 1 year old today! I got some shots of him having his cake and am having some nostalgia looking back at pictures of the last year 🥹

My boy Solo may have the most sensitive stomach of any dog. I think it gets worst as he gets older. He gets his teeth deep cleaned once a year because they are horrible. But coming off anesthesia is the worst experience. Coming home to diarrhea everywhere and this goes on for 4 to 5 days. All vets can give us is a GI antibiotic and probiotics. He also seems to get some nausea or acid reflux recently licking the air or ground. He literally is the sweetest and most perfect boy but i feel so bad about all these stomach issues that seem hard to get under control when they start. Anyone else deal with this level of gi issues?

She loved it. We had lots of long gazes and deep thoughts.

Finished our advanced buried, interior, and exterior today! Zonked out on the way home!

0.5 mode on iphone is hilarious on collies.

Hi!! I just brought home my 11-week-old girl, Winnie, today and I already love her. She’s super sweet and was very quiet at first, but as she’s started to settle in she’s become a lot more vocal.

She’ll whine when she’s in her pen sometimes, which I understand because everything is brand new, but she also does these little whines while she’s completely free, looking at me, chewing a toy, or just wandering around. She can settle and sleep normally, she’s affectionate, follows me everywhere, and otherwise seems okay. It almost feels like she’s just… talking? 😂

This is my first Collie, so I’m curious: How do you tell the difference between normal Collie commentary/whining and actual distress?

Obviously I’m giving her a ton of grace because this is literally her first day away from her breeder and everything she knows. I’m just trying to learn what’s normal for the breed versus what I should actually be concerned about.

I'm lost

My girl will be 14 (we believe as she's a rescue) Oct 30. I adopted her from someone that I know when she was 11.

Missy"s been having problems going up and down the steps to the yard. So my husband has been taking her out on the leash for about a month now. But the past few days she's been unable to maneuver the steps without her legs giving away on her. I have a ramp for her which she won't use. She did try using the steps once after taking a gabapentin yesterday. It was extremely hard for her to go down or get back up them.

We were going to take her to the vet one day early last week, but she wouldn't try getting in the car. I'm unable to lift her as I had surgery on my leg 6 weeks ago.And my husband is really leery of trying. She did bite him Thursday night when he went to pet her. I believe that she's lost some of her eyesight also and he did startle her as she had just woken up.

She hasn't been eating for a couple of days. I know that her teeth are bad but the vet put her on an antibiotic for them. One month on and a couple months off. She's off them right now. She no longer eats her dry dog food . I'm fixing chicken and rice for her which she's eating. She didn't eat at all Friday but did yesterday when I fixed the chicken and rice. When I got up this morning she came and greeted me! Big win. Then she ate her chicken and rice and I gave her vetprofen. It's for inflammation and pain. I'm hoping that it will work as she has another vet appointment Tuesday. Has anyone used vetprofen with their 4 legged friend?

Also, does anyone have any suggestions on how Missy can safely maneuver the steps outside and how I can get her in my car?

Thanks!

Here's Ollie Collie's botched booty progress pic. Bad haircut was about 4 weeks ago now. We're getting there. One day his soft, luxurious, bouncy behind will be back. Last pic is where we started 4 weeks ago if any of you are new here

He is currently 12 weeks and oh my I have never have a big dog before. He is so biggg already!

Mabel the Menace has grown again and has now officially ten adult teethes 🦷 after literally swimming on our walk yesterday, we had a sunny morning ☀️

Enjoy your weekend, guys ☺️

Hi Rough Collie folks! I’m a small fiber shepherd in New England where we run Romney and Gotland sheep. We have a flock of less than 20 sheep seasonally (more in lambing season, less when we sell off of or put some in the freezer). We are looking for a working dog to help us move our sheep more effectively through gates in pasture, onto trailers, and then to be a general farm companion. We don’t have hundreds of acres like farms out west. Our sheep are all handled daily so are friendly and sensitive. They are a bit more than just livestock to us. Border collies are just too much and we just don’t feel that we have enough stock to keep them busy. We’d need the dog to move the sheep about twice a day. After that, they’d be a general farm dog: hanging out with us, having to tolerate barn cats, and hopefully be a general deterrent for our very active coyote and bobcat populations. We have our family pet, an amstaff/pit mix who is very well trained and dog/ cat/sheep/ poultry friendly.

Is a rough or smooth collie the right herding dog for us? If so, what are some good working line breeders in the northeast that you all have worked with? Do any of you work sheep with your collies? How do you feel that your collies do with a job? How is their “off” switch (compared to a border collie or Aussie for instance).

Thank you and picture of our Romney aged ewe, Patty being shown by our daughter at a fair this year, winning the best in her class. For attention of course.

Hello everyone! I just discovered my early childhood dog from when I was born to 6 years old was a rough collie mix. I’m 32 now and she still has left an impact on me. I currently have a husky that grew up with an older dog. Because of that the husky of fairly lazy for a husky. As a puppy and early teenage years she was way too energetic for my life style. I understand I can’t fully avoid that but from research rough collies are medium to low energy dogs - hour play time, two walks and a mental toy and they are set for the day. Is this true? Also, how are they with other dogs in the house?

I saw someone ask if collies are cuddly dogs, so I thought I would share some evidence of my boy. He loves a good snuggle for a while, then he gets up and moves to a cooler spot before eventually giving goodnight kisses and retreating for belly-up sleeps on the floor. Snuggly, but not demanding. Oh and I also wanted to get in on the snoot train.

I've been in and out of the vet for a while now for my 4.5yr old neutered smooth collie. He is recently struggling with anal sac disease / leaking, and even before that, had this black scab-like texture on the underside of the base of his tail. I would attach a photo, but didn't realize that wasn't permitted in the community 😅

Basically, it's been treated as if its a hot spot with prescribed medication, but it doesn't go away, but it doesn't seem to bother him. I just worry that it bothers him without him showing it.

The heath is in bloom where I live. We have a wonderful off-leash dog trail nearby that goes around and through a beautiful heath, so naturally we had to go visit it while it was full of purple and green! Brought the good camera along so we could get some nice photos of Koda, who, as always, is a great model and poses very nicely for me.