My dream dog has always been the Rough Collie. My mother used to take me down to the petstore once a week to see "the Collies." I was the only child they ever let go into the pen with them. I loved on those babies! We never got one though (we were too smart for that). I liked other breeds, but I kind of put the Collie on a little pedestal, not to be touched, sort of unattainable. I don't know why I did - but I did. All of my childhood friends knew this and anytime I went over their houses they always seemed to either have the t.v. on "Lassie" or know of a Collie that lived "just around the corner." Speaking of Lassie, I even have an autograph from June Lockhart (Timmy's Mother) with Lassie...lame I know.

My family and I almost adopted one from a shelter in Florida when I was in high school, but I didn't think my Dad would allow it, so my Mom and I went home and talked about her...and to our surprise my Dad liked Collies a lot and said that would have been the only breed he would have ever gotten...so we all drove down there to go adopt her but she had already been adopted out in that short time (go figure).

Don't get me wrong, I like other breeds, including most of the sporting breeds - but the Collie is the only one for me. I can't wait to finally be on my own two feet again and have my own place so that I can finally have "my dream dog."