[nathanbedford]

I too had among other dogs a border collie, he was the randiest damned dog I ever encountered. He was so smart he could find 10 different ways to break out of the house in the middle of the night and go after a bitch in heat miles away.

He identified a job to keep himself occupied, to improve the breed.

He was a great dog though.

[South Dakota]

My dog saved my bacon,so to speak.
I was driving late at night and in a hurry,with a beer in hand and the dog next to me. All at once the dog stood up and focused on something ahead.
I got off the gas and on the brake in time to miss a herd of deer crossing the road.

[mmercier]

My first dog in the sixties was also a boarder bitch. She used to heard the chickens in the yard. and get them all back in the barn at sunset.

Only ate one or two of them, but always the old ones.

The one we just put down became psychotic over the lack of activity. It tried to heard cats, and patrolled the yard like a security guard on the look out for squirrels and opossum.

I kind of miss him, but he killed every thing that he could... I baited a few skunks and had hin take them out. Big mistake.