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tbh i dislike the "small dog owners never train their dogs. unlike big dog owners who ALWAYS train their dogs" thing because well. that's not true.

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soggy

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took him to the river today

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I think rough collie ruffs kinda look like a heart if you squint and that's pretty cute. Our boy (as in myself and @fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive) William up top, he's an atypical merle and just coming up on a year.

For some variety - Pal, the original Lassie actor below, followed by Oscen, Kepler, and Stellina. @oscenfortrouble and @kangals I hope you don't mind that I borrowed your dogs...

William photos below cut:

He's a good boy.

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gentle horse does not eat blueberries out of my hand

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You know how wild animal species have a conservation status? Have you heard of something similar for dog breeds? Or is dogbreeding as a professional and amateur practice just too varied to make informed judgements of a breed's health? I ask because I've heard about collies having overbred issues for a while, and I have no clue if that's getting better or worse from one decade to another.

With collies specifically: I know that the breed has a fairly high COI + yet is considered to be much healthier than several breeds with similar COIs. The Collie Health Foundation is a good resource for specifics about health issues found in the breed.

In order to look for specific trends in health issues, I think you're looking for OFA (and specifically the CHIC program). Obviously it's missing some of the historic data, but here's the testing statistics for all CHIC-registered collies, broken down by birth year!

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decided that having two dogs was too much work, so I've amalgamated them

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Snoot ✨🐶

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out and about!

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Today I said goodbye to Minion, after a sudden and sharp decline in her quality of life. On the 22nd we would have been together for 15 years--more than half of my life and almost all of hers. None of what I can think of to say would be sufficient, except that she was my best friend. I am incomplete without her.

Thank you for loving her with me all these years. It means the world to me if she has ever brought you even a little bit of joy 💛

The Devil's Minion, Summer 2009-May 13th, 2025

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I absolutely agree that body structure plays a part in it!

The dogs I lived with previous to these guys were both lab-pit mixes and also hated it, so I wonder if there's multiple different elements going on? but also that's a sample size of four, and could mean nothing

Re: oscen not liking to roll over.

My border collie rolled over a single digit number of times in 12 years, and I can't even be sure that it happened during professional training [she was deaf, so gestures for return were very important]

Fjara now also refuses to offer it, and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that it's a fake trick made up by dog media

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sent her to baby agility

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baby thundercone

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Re: oscen not liking to roll over.

My border collie rolled over a single digit number of times in 12 years, and I can't even be sure that it happened during professional training [she was deaf, so gestures for return were very important]

Fjara now also refuses to offer it, and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that it's a fake trick made up by dog media

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reproducing this freak

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she's helping :)

oscen update: the saddest lampshade in existence

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oscen update: the saddest lampshade in existence