We get asked all the time what Bijou is but no one has been too off the mark when they make their guess. They usually think she's a border collie or a sheltie and I find myself saying she's "just" a collie, lol. I guess Bijou's tri markings throw folks off -- they think collies can only be sables, like Lassie (I've been hoping to find a nice blue merle rough to join Bijou -- that will really give people pause!). Then I add she was the only tri rough from a litter of sables and soon after, I hear a story about how they grew up with a collie too, etc., etc., etc.

I think my mother is the worst, though -- because I did grow up with a collie as our family pet when I was a girl, my mother now calls my Bijou by the name of our dearly departed family pet (from 25 years ago!) everytime she visits! It's really weird. She also insists that "toy collies" (she's referring to shelties, but she doesn't realize that) are the same exact breed as collies, "just smaller." Sigh. She's sweet and I adore her, but she has her own ideas about things and she's not about to change her mind now!