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<blockquote data-quote="TnWI" data-source="post: 136416" data-attributes="member: 1920"><p>I have 3 Border Collies, and a German sheperd right now but used to have 2 Austrailian Cattle Dogs (most commonly known as Blue Heelers). If I could find someone in the area that breeds them (and actually knows what breeding means), I would go back in a heartbeat. Not that I don't like my borders, because I do -- they are smart, and will do what they can to help. But my ACD's were awesome -- you won't find a better "doing" dog ... you show them something once, and they have it down. And even manage to think of things you don't! And they will work ALL day long, til the job is done. </p><p></p><p>I got caught in a pasture once, with a bull hot on my heels, and I tripped over a rut, and fell -- I prepared for the "hit", just at that moment I saw 2 shapes fly over me -- my heelers got the bull off. One took the front, and the other the back end. I scrambled under the wire and called them off ...... not in time enough tho, the female to take a good shot to the shoulder. She got up, limping (her shoulder was diagnosed as broke), and took off after that bull .... she was P*SSED! </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately they both had to be put down, the male had over agressive behavior (which can be a issue in that breed), and the female was injured in a farm accident and never recovered. Not a day goes by, especially when I am working cattle, that I don't look for those two to be backing me up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TnWI, post: 136416, member: 1920"] I have 3 Border Collies, and a German sheperd right now but used to have 2 Austrailian Cattle Dogs (most commonly known as Blue Heelers). If I could find someone in the area that breeds them (and actually knows what breeding means), I would go back in a heartbeat. Not that I don't like my borders, because I do -- they are smart, and will do what they can to help. But my ACD's were awesome -- you won't find a better "doing" dog ... you show them something once, and they have it down. And even manage to think of things you don't! And they will work ALL day long, til the job is done. I got caught in a pasture once, with a bull hot on my heels, and I tripped over a rut, and fell -- I prepared for the "hit", just at that moment I saw 2 shapes fly over me -- my heelers got the bull off. One took the front, and the other the back end. I scrambled under the wire and called them off ...... not in time enough tho, the female to take a good shot to the shoulder. She got up, limping (her shoulder was diagnosed as broke), and took off after that bull .... she was P*SSED! Unfortunately they both had to be put down, the male had over agressive behavior (which can be a issue in that breed), and the female was injured in a farm accident and never recovered. Not a day goes by, especially when I am working cattle, that I don't look for those two to be backing me up. [/QUOTE]
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