What do Border Collies get up to when they are not chasing sheep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jaLor7d7NEs
 
No slo mo footage used in that apparently.
 
Funny
 
 

We had a BC and damn, she was a super watchdog!
For strangers, she'd sit patiently till they got "in range", then she's flip out!

For family, people  in her turf - she was was a cupcake.
 

 
He he, they look more like cats stalking

I had one who would herd me when I cut the grass, nipping at my heels etc. She was really smart but not the most social dog. She did NOT like to be petted. Even with me, if I tried to come down with my hand on her head she woud move it. I alswas had to come from below, she loved to have the chest scratched. I could "sic" her on a cat who wandered into the yard and whe sould tear out after it. When she would get close I'd yell "no" nd she would come to a quick halt and come back to me.
Woe be to the cat or opossum that wandered into our back yard though. She would do the dirty work then Brownie, her pup, would stake a claim. They treed one neighbors cat, it was lucky. I did a stealth burial on another neighbors cat Another cat I'd never seen I managed to rescue, but not in time. It was walking sideways and holding its head crooked. I got it out of the backyard and it started up a tree in our frontyard... I felt bad about it but I grabbed it and pulled it off the tree, it shambled off through the other neighbors backyard into the woods. I managed to rescue an opossum after I think it had a broken back, it went off dragging both back feet... in case you're thinking that I did this, no, they were doing this before I ever told them to chase a cat, and I only did that twice. The backyard was fenced, I even had an electric dog fence on the chain link. It was their territory and they defended it fiercely. I lost count after 35 dead squirrels. They would double team them. The squirrels would get careless, run up a tree but not far enough. The dogs would run after the sqruirrel, one would go around one side of the tree and one around the other and they would jump when they rounded the tree, sooner or later the squirrel would be there and that would be the end of the squirrel. Once I skinned and grilled one for them but the wouldn't eat it... so I went back to throwing them over the fence after Brownie carried it arund the yard for a few hours.
BCs are REALLY smart dogs.
She was a rescue, All our dogs have been rescues except for her pup that we kept. She outlived him by a year. Most of our cats have been rescues too.
 
Memories!!
 
J

Thanks for the video, that was funny.
 
I used to have a Border Collie/Chow mix. Although I did not know that when I got him from the shelter.
 
Now I have a Cairn Terrier and Glen of Imaal Terrier. Wonderful little dogs.