Knowledge
As everything the border collie has interesting facts and knowledge too. We collect some here. Some are belong to the past, others are the present and some to the records. Do you know all of them?
Chaser the border collie knows more than 1,000 words. As well as seeming to know the names of all of her 1,022 toys, her trainers say she can categorise them by function or shape, something human children learn to do when they are about three years old in 2010.
Border Collies are very intelligent and the proof is Rico, a Border Collie study subject who could recognize more than 250 objects by name in 2004.
The Border Collie was not granted full AKC recognition until 1995, but the recognition was strongly opposed by working Border Collie dog supporters.
Border Collies have been called by other names including 'working collie', 'farm collie', and 'old-fashioned collie'.
The most popular Border Collie stud was Wiston Cap, the dog who appears on the International Sheep Herding Badge; he is posed in the pose that is characteristic of herding Border Collies.
Old Hemp is considered the father of the breed and it was from him that the Border Collie style of herding was developed.
All pure Border Collies alive today can trace an ancestral line back to one dog, a Border Collie called "Old Hemp" who lived from 1893-1901.