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Border Collies rule, if you are intelligent enough to own them, and can supply them with the enrichment that they require. I had an adopted one who was kept in a city back yard with little outlet for his high-energy metabolism. Most that are placed are due to bad behaviors caused by the owner trying to put a herding breed into an environment non-conducive to their requirements. These dogs need a job, and it must be one requiring high degree thinking, as herding does. I had to put our guy down at age 13 1/2, and would own another in a heartbeat! He was a companion and was the herd dog at the vocational agricultural school which I taught at, traveling there each day. He also was a pet therapy dog, made visits to nursing homes. He won a dog food essay contest for Ole Roy Co. with a story of his life! Missed by all who knew him, he was the recessive, red and white coloration Border Collie, named "Buster Brown"...
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