parson or jack?

[Varga]

Owning a Jack Russell, it’s nice to finally have this cleared up..

But I never knew there was such a difference between show Border Collies and working Border Collies.. you learn something new each day eh?


-Varga.

[cali]

lol have you seen the picture AKC used as there pic for a border collie? lol its worse then the one clover posted!





and my misty, straight off a cattle ranch, bred soley for work.

[lute]

wow that is a big difference! are their a lot of breeds like that?

[cali]

every breed AKC and other kennel clubs have recignized is like that, many of the true breeds dont even exist anymore because people did not realize what was going on and did not fight it. you cant even find a picture of a true beardie on the net, but you would never know it was a beardie because of what the show ring has done to them. a true beardie is taller, and has short wirey hair, they basicly look like wire coarted border collies, they have the same work style as a BC as well, calm smooth and useing the eye.

[BCBlondie]

Yeah it's sad how they do that to the breeds... I'm REALLY hoping that doesn't happen to Border Collies... I also have a working Border.. He's pretty long-legged, slim, medium fur length (not as long as a show BC's fur), with a long nose and pricked ears...and VERY agile and fast (he outran an Afghan Hound once at the dog park ) ... as Borders should be..

I don't like the way the show BC's look with the stubby little nose and all that fluff that you rarely see a real working BC having. Plus they don't seem to have that intense look that most BC's have... which is a major characteristic of the breed...the Border Collie 'eye'...

[cloverfdx]

Oooppps i think we have hijacked this thread a little bit. Sorry.

Shayna Misty is a fine sample of the real BC And thankyou for posting the AKC pic it was what i was looking for.

And Sesh is a sweetie, We need to see more photos of him.

Wow he out ran an Afghan, That i would have liked to have seen.

[BCBlondie]

Yeah he always chases, or "herds" lol, after the dogs that run around at the dog park..
I actually have lots of new pics of him... I've just been too lazy to upload them on the net to post them hehe

[cloverfdx]

We need to see the photos of Sesh, when you have time.

Please....Waiting patiently.

[BCBlondie]

Alright, alright... I'll post some lolol