I guess I'm not a huge animal lover. Over the years our family has had a number of cats who seem to survive a little while before either running away or dying or getting shot at by the neighbours' son. Our first dog had to be put down after it attacked our eldest son (at the time still a baby) and it was years before we were willing to have another dog. That one, Calico or Co for short, was killed during a family outing to the beach when some young people were driving an old bomb of a car too fast down the beach. One of our sons was holding on to our dog's leash, but wasn't strong enough to hold onto a dog wanting to go, and Co took off and was hit by the car. As devastating as that once we were just thankful that it was a dog that was killed and not a child (which could have so easily happened on the beach). Hopefully it made those young people stop and think.
At present we have a gold and white Border Collie named Kielsie. She also loves Bob the Bird (we have to hide him when I bring him home from work over the holidays) and suspects us of negligence if our granddaughter lets out the tiniest cry. Immediately, she's inside making sure that we know what we're doing and are taking good care of 'her' baby!
And the love is reciprocal: our granddaughter loves her too. Every visit she'll take someone by the hand and go and visit Kielsie. One of her first words was 'dog'. Followed by "Out, Kielsie!" (probably because we were always telling Kielsie to get outside whenever our granddaughter visited because Kielsie would get so excited).
Border Collies are meant to be intelligent. Kielsie might be, but she's also rather ditzy at times too. And she'll never make a guard dog. Whenever we have someone new visit she wets herself and runs away and hides. But we love her anyway.
At present we have a gold and white Border Collie named Kielsie. She also loves Bob the Bird (we have to hide him when I bring him home from work over the holidays) and suspects us of negligence if our granddaughter lets out the tiniest cry. Immediately, she's inside making sure that we know what we're doing and are taking good care of 'her' baby!
And the love is reciprocal: our granddaughter loves her too. Every visit she'll take someone by the hand and go and visit Kielsie. One of her first words was 'dog'. Followed by "Out, Kielsie!" (probably because we were always telling Kielsie to get outside whenever our granddaughter visited because Kielsie would get so excited).
Border Collies are meant to be intelligent. Kielsie might be, but she's also rather ditzy at times too. And she'll never make a guard dog. Whenever we have someone new visit she wets herself and runs away and hides. But we love her anyway.
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