When I was a child, my grandfather had a border collie that could get the cows by itself. Sent but not supervised.
More recently, I have driven across the Navajo reservation at Monument Valley and out in the middle of nowhere seen two border collies moving a herd of sheep along the road.
No barking or running that I observed just a slow steady pace. The dogs did, however, look disgusted even pissed as though there might have been earlier chastisement of some sort for the 18 thousandth time on the same flock of sheep taking the same routine trip. :-)
When I was a kid, we had a border collie that needed a lot of exercise. If he didn't get enough, he would go off to a neighboring ranch, round up a group of cattle, and pen them in a fenced corner. He'd keep them there until he got bored, then come home.
The re mark in () should have been included in my anecdote below:
“When I was a child, my grandfather had a border collie that could get the cows by itself. Sent but not supervised.
More recently, I have driven across the Navajo reservation at Monument Valley and out in the middle of nowhere seen two border collies moving a herd of sheep along the road. (they were totally in charge - no people involved at all.)
No barking or running that I observed just a slow steady pace. The dogs did, however, look disgusted even pissed as though there might have been earlier chastisement of some sort for the 18 thousandth time on the same flock of sheep taking the same routine trip. :-)