Originally posted by wolf_Q
Awww they are both so cute!!! Are you sure he's not a sheltie/collie mix? I've seen a few dogs at work that look like a large sheltie, and they were sheltie/collie mixes.
Thanks for the kind comments!

The shelter said that he was bure bred, because the person who brought him in said he was a pure bred and had paid the full price for a pure bred. We also got a puppy pic of him when we picked him up, and he looked like a pure bred puppy. But it's hard to say - she also said he was housebroken and didn't bite. The first thing he did when he got home was pee all over the floor - TWICE - and bite me and my mom's daycare kids. But I think he's more sheltie than collie just because of his looks. He's the sweetest dog now - never bites or anything.. he just needed lots of love!

I forgot - it was a vet who told us about the throwback thing too.. he just let us know it was a possibility, but he didn't say for sure if Garth is purebred or not.