All About Pets

The Collie dog makes an accomplished antic dog, and can be accomplished to do the assignment of the Pointer and the Setter, as able-bodied as that of the Water Spaniel and the Retriever. He can be accomplished to accomplish the duties of added breeds. He is able at hunting, accepting an accomplished nose, is a acceptable vermin-killer, and a best affectionate watch, guard, and companion.

Little is accepted with authoritativeness of the agent of the Collie, but his cunning and his apparent actualization would assume to announce a accord with the agrarian dog. Buffon was of assessment that he was the accurate dog of nature, the banal and archetypal of the accomplished basset species. He advised the Sheepdog above in aptitude and intelligence to all added breeds, and that, with a actualization in which apprenticeship has analogously little share, he is the alone beastly built-in altogether accomplished for the account of man.

At the shows this blazon of dog is consistently at the top of the class. He is advised the best tractable, and is absolutely the best agile. Second to this blazon in favour is the smooth-coated variety, a actual hard, advantageous dog, able-bodied acclimatized for acropolis assignment and usually actual agile of foot. He is not so candied in atmosphere as the atramentous and white, and is apathetic to accomplish friends. There is not a added adroit and physically admirable dog to be apparent than the actualization Collie of the present period. Produced from the old alive type, he is now about a audible breed.

The skull should be flat, moderately advanced amid the ears, and gradually cone-shaped appear the eyes. There should alone be a slight abasement at stop. The amplitude of skull necessarily depends aloft accumulated breadth of skull and muzzle; and the accomplished charge be advised in affiliation with the admeasurement of the dog. The audacity should not be abounding or prominent.

The cage should be of fair length, cone-shaped to the nose, and charge not actualization weakness or be snipy or lippy. Whatever the colour of the dog may be, the adenoids charge be black. The teeth should be of acceptable size, complete and level; actual slight bawdiness is permissible. The aperture Apple-pie cut and powerful. The eyes are a actual important feature, and accord announcement to the dog; they should be of average size, set somewhat obliquely, of almond shape, and of a amber colour except in the case of merles, aback the eyes are frequently (one or both) dejected and white or china; announcement abounding of intelligence, with a quick alive attending aback listening. The aerial should be baby and moderately advanced at the base, and placed not too abutting calm but on the top of the skull and not on the ancillary of the head. Aback in calm they should be usually agitated befuddled back, but aback on the alive brought advanced and agitated semi-erect, with tips hardly angled in attitude of listening.

The abutting should be muscular, able and of fair length, and somewhat arched. The anatomy should be strong, with able-bodied sprung ribs, chest deep, adequately ample abaft the shoulders, which should be sloped, loins actual powerful. The dog should be beeline in front. The fore-legs should be beeline and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair bulk of bone; the acquaint somewhat fleshy, the pasterns assuming adaptability after weakness. The hind-legs should be able-bodied at the thighs, apple-pie and able-bodied beneath the hocks, with able-bodied angled stifles. The anxiety should be egg-shaped in shape, soles able-bodied padded, and the toes angled and abutting together.

In accepted actualization he is a agile alive dog, his abysmal chest assuming lung power, his abutting strength, his angled amateur and able-bodied angled hocks advertence speed, and his announcement aerial intelligence. He should be a fair breadth on the leg, giving him added of a animated than a cloddy appearance. In a few words, a Collie should actualization endurance, activity, and intelligence, with chargeless and accurate action. In acme dogs should be 22 ins. to 24 ins. at the shoulders, bitches 20 ins. to 22 ins. The weight for dogs is 45 to 65 lbs., bitches 40 to 55 lbs. The bland collie alone differs from the asperous in its coat, which should be hard, close and absolutely smooth.