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Mark Anderson · 06-03-2007, 10:09 PM posted to rec.gardens

In article says...
Look, I watch the Dog Whisper every week. It's always the fault of
the dogs owner. Why would anyone buy a boarder collie if they live in
the city?

You can say this about any large or medium sized breed. According to
your logic everyone in the city should stick to small yap yap dogs. I
live in a very congested city area with no yard at all and have two BCs,
one 11 and a new Blue Merle puppy. The nice thing about BCs is that
since they are the smartest dog there is they can be trained easily and
can adapt to their environment far easier than any other breed. With
any breed of dog if the owner doesn't assert themselves as pack leader
then the dog will have problems -- and BCs will especially have problems
if the owner doesn't clamp down on them hard because then they think
they can get away with things. Too many people treat their dogs like
children and that's what causes problems -- not because they live in a
congested city environment.

The poor dog needs a job and is bred to do the job.

There are plenty of tasks for BCs to do in the city.

So
when the dog tries to round up the family, children, snapping at their
ankles, they bring the poor thing to the pound. So, the dog is dead
because anyone knowing anything would never buy a border collie in the
city.

There are very few pure bred BCs at the pound or on petfinder.com (in
fact there were none on petfinder.com the last I looked). BCs are very
expensive dogs.