I've had a couple border collies. They love doing that.
My current one even herds children if they run away from the group of people they're with. The first time she did it I thought she was attacking the kid, she was snarling and snapping her teeth and whining like a maniac but never touched the kid. Just herded her right back to mom.
've had a couple border collies. They love doing that.
My current one even herds children if they run away from the group of people they're with.
One of my earliest memories is of a standard Collie owned by my parents that used to babysit me out in the yard when I was still in diapers. If I crawled towards the sidewalk and the street,she would pick me up by my diapers and take me back to the center of the yard. I now suspect I mostly did it to play with her,and truth to tell,she probably thought it was playing,too. We were both doing what we needed to do.
My other earliest memory was of sitting inside a cardboard box (apparently it was my play pen) on the kitchen floor,and having a big rat run right past me and my father to jump up from the kitchen table and try and stomp him before he got away. Which scared the hell out of me.
This week I'm doggy-sitting a King Doberman. This things weighs at least a hundred pounds. It's huge but luckily he's a big suckhole and does what he's told. If he didn't want to do it there's no way I would try making him. I keep thinking he's going to turn into a killer and rip my throat out.