Welcoming October
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summer_jackelWhat could be finer than the NorCal coast on a clear October morning?
There was apparently considerable excitement back in camp while I was at work yesterday. My neighbor, who is reroofing my house, witnessed Tiger make the swift, efficient and impressive kill of an extremely large rat, which was walking on the road behind the house. He proceeded to dash it past all the dogs and (sigh) into the house. I am now inclined to believe that the one Coba brought in a little while ago was actually Tiger's. Neighbor, who is not to my knowledge a cat person, is all appreciative of Tiger now. Good kitty; I am so grateful!
On the other hand, with no less than eight fuzzy carnivores sharing this space with me, we had BETTER not have any rodent issues!
My pack. See how dignified they are? If only I'd brought the DSLR and not the point and shoot. When am I going to remember this?
In flight
OK, so there's this amazing thing that happens. You obtain this awkward, excessively snouted and rumpled little pup thing, and nurture the beast for a bit. There is this quasi-miraculous process whereby the creature becomes a collie. I'm still looking for the sleight-of-hand involved.
Isn't he handsome?
In an extremely silly way.
Lovely Jezzie
I love this shot
I like to pose these group shots, and sometimes they come out well. Colliething trio!
Pack hears something
Housefoxen
Young collie
The ones that aren't posed are the best, though.
There was apparently considerable excitement back in camp while I was at work yesterday. My neighbor, who is reroofing my house, witnessed Tiger make the swift, efficient and impressive kill of an extremely large rat, which was walking on the road behind the house. He proceeded to dash it past all the dogs and (sigh) into the house. I am now inclined to believe that the one Coba brought in a little while ago was actually Tiger's. Neighbor, who is not to my knowledge a cat person, is all appreciative of Tiger now. Good kitty; I am so grateful!
On the other hand, with no less than eight fuzzy carnivores sharing this space with me, we had BETTER not have any rodent issues!
My pack. See how dignified they are? If only I'd brought the DSLR and not the point and shoot. When am I going to remember this?
In flight
OK, so there's this amazing thing that happens. You obtain this awkward, excessively snouted and rumpled little pup thing, and nurture the beast for a bit. There is this quasi-miraculous process whereby the creature becomes a collie. I'm still looking for the sleight-of-hand involved.
Isn't he handsome?
In an extremely silly way.
Lovely Jezzie
I love this shot
I like to pose these group shots, and sometimes they come out well. Colliething trio!
Pack hears something
Housefoxen
Young collie
The ones that aren't posed are the best, though.
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Date: 2009-10-02 01:09 am (UTC)Do collies come in the non-tri blue-merle colouration?
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Date: 2009-10-02 05:53 pm (UTC)bi-blue Collies---well, they aren't supposed to. Merle is a dilution gene, so a blue merle like Chaos is a tricolor dog with the dilution gene, and a bicolor-blue like Coba is a black and white (called 'bi-black' in Shelties) with the same gene. Bi-black and bi-blue Collies are not recognized or shown; according to this website, http://www.snovali.com/other/colors.htm, "this color is only possible in Shelties and not in Collies. The breed that contributed the bicolor gene to the Sheltie is not in the Collie ancestry."
I find this an interesting bit of information given that many of the original 'toonies,' as the Shetland crofter's dogs were called before Shelties were created by crossing them with Collies, were black or bi-black. Since tricolor is dominant and most of the sables are carrying it as well, bicolor is somewhat rarer than tri even in Shelties.
All this aside, though, the occasional modern bicolor Collie would not surprise me. The original Collies, pre-Victorian fashion, were mostly tricolors and merles; sable came in through a stunningly lovely dog with what was then a rare color who won all the shows in 1880-something and got bred to everyone. At that point, they were closer to what we now call a Border Collie and the Victorians called a farm collie. Those are predominantly bicolor with some tris, some merles and even the rare sable.
Here's a bi-blue Border Collie. :) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Blue_merle_Border_Collie.jpg
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Date: 2009-10-02 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-02 10:56 pm (UTC)I managed to get my mother's puppy (Yorkie-poodle mix) to switch allegiances. Puppies are so easy to make happy. :> Better, though, my mother's incredibly shy, elderly little miniature Yorkie started taking a shine to me as well, and eventually decided I was a Safe Zone when the larger puppy got too rambunctious.
Critters and me, we've always gotten along. Including Jackels, apparently!
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Date: 2009-10-02 02:37 am (UTC)Such beautiful doggies... (happy sigh)
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Date: 2009-10-02 06:07 pm (UTC)I am loving watching Chaos grow. He came to me as such a sweetly awkward, hopelessly silly-looking pup. I don't know if I completely believed that he was ever going to be beautiful. But he is growing up awfully lovely...and he has such a kind, reasonable and intelligent personality. He's such a great boy. :) Collies are neat! I made the right decision.
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Date: 2009-10-02 08:06 am (UTC)Lovely photos. You have very poofy dogs
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Date: 2009-10-02 06:08 pm (UTC)I seem to like 'poofy' in canids. It's good that I enjoy grooming.
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Date: 2009-10-03 02:47 am (UTC)He was just a pup!
Whither went the aardcollie?
The nose...it's all growed up!
Whither went the aardcollie?
The speckle-ly nose...it fits!
All salute the aardcollie,
for now adult he is!
Wonderful piccys, by the way. Thank you for sharing!
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Date: 2009-10-04 01:09 am (UTC)That is so charming and adorable. You wrote little Chaos some "doggerel!"
I read it to him, of course. What a lucky dog to have his very own poem, and at a mere 6 months! Thank you.
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