Yep, collies are just very amiable, they put up with other animals, kids tugging at them. Sweet dogs. I call them the supermodels of dogs, beautiful to look at but not brainiacs. Pip was 30 lbs when I adopted him, he had been starved and beaten. We renamed him since we had Great Expectations. I was on my way back from looking at collie pups and someone from the collie rescue league asked me to stop by at a friend who was temporarily keeping a new rescue. I was sitting on the sofa and they brought him to me. He sat right next to my feet, leaned on my legs and looked up at me. My husband said he knew I was a goner.
Poor Casey, I had just gotten out of the hospital from a surgery and she went down, screaming in pain. She had been dragging for several months So at 3 am in the morning I took her to the vet. I had a dozen staples and I'm not supposed to lift anything. I had to drive 10 miles to get to a 24hour vet, hopped up on painkillers, bawling my eyes out. I cannot believe how few 24 hour vets there are in the Winston area, it was that one or the next closest was Greensboro, really? I'm lucky in Fayetteville, one is about 2 minutes away.