Collie Puppy Pictures

Collie Puppy Pictures

The collie is a characteristic blazon of herding dog, including abounding accompanying landraces and academic breeds. It originates in Scotland and Northern England. It is a medium-sized, adequately agilely congenital dog with a acicular snout, and abounding types accept a characteristic white arrangement over the shoulders. Collies are actual alive and agile, and a lot of types accept a actual able herding instinct. The collie blazon has advance through abounding locations of the apple (especially Australia and North America) and has adapted into abounding varieties, sometimes with admixture from added dog types. Some of the collie types accept remained as alive dogs, acclimated for herding cattle, sheep and added livestock, while others are kept as pets, appearance dogs or for dog sports, in which they affectation abundant agility, backbone and trainability.

Common use of the name "collie" in some areas is bound abundantly to assertive breeds – such as to the Rough Collie in locations of the United States, or to the Border Collie in abounding rural locations of Abundant Britain. Abounding collie types do not in fact cover "collie" in their name.

The exact agent of the name "collie" is uncertain, although it may acquire from the Scots chat for
"coal" – abounding collie types are atramentous or black-and-white. Alternatively it may appear from the accompanying chat colley, apropos to the black-faced abundance sheep of Scotland. The collie name refers abnormally to dogs of Scottish origin, but the collie blazon is far added boundless in Britain and in abounding added locations of the world, generally getting alleged sheepdog or attend dog elsewhere.