Border Collie - Sheltie MIx

[billburnham]

I'm thinking about breeding my female Border Collie with my male Sheltie. Has anyone had any expereince with this mix. I would love to hear about what kind of dog this makes. PIcture of one would be great!

[Faster horses]

Years ago I used to raise Shelties. Must have been in the early 70's because we had a terrible spring blizzard in 1973. My dog was in heat and we turned her outside while we went to dig out. We had snow drifts so high the kids could climb up and touch the telephone lines; we had 98 mph winds. Well, I'm getting off the subject.

Anyway, we were across the creek when I looked over by the house and my sheltie and the neighbor's border collie were having a great time. Nothing I could do about it, so she had the pups and they turned out to be great dogs. Especially great sheep dogs. I didn't have any trouble getting rid of them, of course I couldn't sell them at that time, but they sure turned out well. One in particular really had a fine reputation. The guy that owned her spent alot of time training her. I remember that he was under a catapiller working on it and something fell out of it and the dog grabbed his coat sleeve and tried to pull him out from under the cat. She was really worried something had happened to him.

But I don't think I have any pictures. They were all sable colored, and shorter than a border collie. But good dogs, all.

[cherbmn]

Hi - Sorry to be so late to this board, but I wanted to tell you about our dog Casey (female), a border collie/sheltie mix. We got her as a puppy six years ago. Nice size - about 45 pounds - big enough to hike with us for hours, small enough to be cute. She is the most obedient, intelligent, loving dog we (and most others) have ever seen. She has been our dear companion - wonderful with kids, adults and other dogs. We could not have asked for a better dog. She wants nothing more than to please us in every way. She also loves to play and is a great Frisbee catcher! Today we just found out Casey has lymphoma cancer. We are looking at treatment options but know that we probably won't have our girl around for as long as we hoped. If you ever do decide to breed your dogs, could you please let me know? Casey looks like a miniature collie and gets called "Lassie" often (same coloring as Lassie).