I have friends that have show border collies, they look like border collies, they also have herding titles, obe. titles and agility titles on them. So I quite don't understand the post about not liking the show border collies. They don't look fake to me. I show my standard poodles, they also do water retrieving, obe. and agility. They were in a show cut while doing this also.. So I am sorry for not understanding the thinking of show vs working.