American - Novelist | January 1, 1940 -
Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.
Donald McCaig
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Border collies were trained in Scotland. They have the Scots' commands in their genes. At the dog trials, the owners wear those three-piece western suits, cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats, but they carry Scots shepherd's crooks over their arms and talk to their dogs in Scots accents.
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You have to train a dog to think.
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I'm a workaday writer.
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I'd rather talk about dogs than about me.
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Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.
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In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn.
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Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.
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A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.
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That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.
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If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.
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The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
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