r/roughcollies

This is BMO’s go to sleeping position, legs fully splayed out!

It’s been two weeks since I have adopted laddie from my local Humane Society. He was a owner surrender. From what I know his owner was elderly and could no longer take care of him. He’s six years old and my first collie I’ve ever owned. Today, I took him out to Lowe’s for the first time and I’ve been working on training at home. He was fabulous. He listened to all of my commands, which was basic heel, sit, lay down, and stay. He even laid down when I was having some conversations with other patrons that were passing by that were admiring him. I don’t think he’s trained as a service animal, but he seems like he knows enough to be trained as one. However, I was very proud of him and I on our little outing and I’m excited to continue our little training sessions out in public. He already seems to be such a good member of society with great manners. He received lots of compliments not just on his looks but also his training.

We had extra cucumbers so used the opportunity to treat Oscen like the dramatic Victorian waif he likes to pretend to be and hauled them down to the community garden.

Painter Boy is 2 (on the left) and Reilly is 9 but they are best buddies. I wish there wasn't such a big age difference between them.

I had a rough collie growing up that was my favorite dog of all time and always told myself I'd own another one one day, well here he is and he kinda just fell in my lap :)

Life works out in funny ways sometimes huh?

Some of you may recognize Joey, as his “found” post is the second-most upvoted post on this subreddit.

Today, Joey suffered what we assume was a stroke. He waited until we got home, tried to get up, then fell over. He twitched for about 20 minutes before he stopped breathing.

Joey was a difficult dog, but we loved him for it. Over the past year, he went through so many things but always managed to get through them. 38 days ago, he went missing, and 30 days ago, he was found. He was missing for 8 days and somehow survived without eating for those 8 days. He truly was our miracle dog.

I wanted to let Joey’s little Reddit family know, especially since so many people still reach out to me for updates on his health.

We’ll forever miss hearing Joey constantly barking, trying to herd us around, and being the most resilient, loving, and incredible dog we could have ever asked for.

Hopefully they can fix his hip in doggy heaven so he can finally run again. 💜

He likes lying by the outdoor grill, right next to where we keep his food. We think he enjoys it there because the stone countertop is cool.

is this normal? I have had my dog for a couple months, he’s 2 years old. I don’t know if this is something that needs to be checked or normal, he has so much fur everywhere but not behind the ear? I am not very familiar with the breed itself as i’m taking care of this dog for a friend but i just want to make sure he’s fine

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