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The border collie, the most popular breed of sheepdog in the UK, has been used as a working dog for more than two hundred years. The dog's mild nature, its intelligence and agility, as well as the innate instinct it has for gathering sheep into a flock, make it ideally suited to working with these animals.

Breed of sheepdog originating in the Borders region of Scotland and still much prized as a versatile working dog with a powerful herding instinct. It has a smooth or fairly long, dense, black and white coat and stands about 53 cm/21 in tall.


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Gardos was not hurt in the landing and his two passengers -- friend Kevin McIntyre and his border collie K-Bar -- got out of the plane uninjured.
The sweet Border collie is so typical of the breed--driven, loyal, and somewhat possessed.
The bossy demeanour of our border collie, secretly yearning to herd hundreds of cattle instead of that handful of insufficiently docile human beings he lives with, suddenly made perfect sense.
 
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