BORDER COLLIE

breed of medium-sized, sheepherding dog developed in the British Isles. It stands about 18 in. (45.7 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 30 to 45 lb (13.6–20.4 kg). Its double coat consists of a soft, fuzzy underlayer and a harsh, very dense, wavy or slightly curly topcoat of varying lengths. Its color is black with white around the neck and on the chest, face, feet, and tip of tail. Bred for many years exclusively to develop its herding instinct, the border collie is unsurpassed as a sheep dog and has been used with equal success for herding cattle, swine, and poultry. It is exhibited in the miscellaneous class at dog shows sanctioned by the American Kennel Club. See dog.

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books on: Border Collie  - 610 results

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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History
Book by Simon M. Evans, Sarah Carter, Bill Yeo; University of Calgary Press, 2000
Subjects: Cattle Trade--Canada, Western--History--Congresses, Cowboys--Canada, Western--History--Congresses, Ranch Life--Canada, Western--History--Congresses
...cattle ranching crossed the border with ease, borne by the likes...British Columbia and using collie dogs to help herd cattle. Inspecting...cattle ranching is concerned, the border does not matter. 19 Charles...Sweetgrass Hills five miles below the border, and in 1903 he made a probe...
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Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
Book by Joseph Nevins; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Border Patrols--Mexican-American Border Region, Illegal Aliens--Government Policy--United States, Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.), United States--Immigration Border Patrol
...Illegal aliens Government policy United States. 2. Operation Gatekeeper U.S. 3. Border patrols Mexican-American Border Region. 4. United States. Immigration Border Patrol. I. Title. JV6483 .N47 2001 363.2850973-dc21 2001034989 Printed...
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The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence
Book by Richard R. Byrne; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Animal Intelligence, Human Evolution, Intellect, Psychology, Comparative, Social Evolution
...people do, I suspect, particularly in comparison with sheep-dogs. Black and white dogs sometimes called border collies although exactly which border is unclear are famous for outwitting sheep. The classic image is the sheep-dog, responding to mere...
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Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1990-1994: Books of Recognized Merit
Book by Alethea K. Helbig, Agnes Regan Perkins; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Best Books--United States, Children's Libraries--Book Lists, Children's Stories, American--Dictionaries
...occupants of Sara-Kates yard: elves. Sara-Kate shows her their village: little houses made of sticks with leaf roofs and yards bordered with little stones, even an ingeniously made Ferris wheel, all hidden among old tires, a discarded wash- ing machine, thistles...
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Mcgraw-Hill's GMAT: Graduate Management Admission Test
Book by James Hasik, Stacey Rudnick, Ryan Hackney; McGraw-Hill, 2007
Subjects: Business--Examinations, Questions, Etc, Graduate Management Admission Test--Study Guides, Management--Examinations, Questions, Etc, Management--Examinations--Study Guides
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journal articles on: Border Collie  - 17 results

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Transferable Residues from Dog Fur and Plasma Cholinesterase Inhibition in Dogs Treated with a Flea Control Dip Containing Chlorpyrifos
Journal article by J. Scott Boone, John W. Tyler, Janice E. Chambers; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, 2001
...Mix (F) 22.5 short 62.99 6 Border collie x Greyhound (F) 44.5 medium 89.62...109.5 short 175.32 15 Border collie (M) 55.5 long 22.25...
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Dogs and People: The History and Psychology of a Relationship
Journal article; Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, Vol. 24-26, 1996
Subjects: Authors--Addresses, essays, lectures, Coren, Stanley--Addresses, essays, lectures, Dog breeds--Social aspects, Dog owners--Psychology and mental health, Dogs--Social aspects, Psychologists--Addresses, essays, lectures
...Clever Dogs, with Poodles and Border Collies. These dogs are grouped together...affectionate and genial dogs Bearded Collies Bichon Frise Border Terrier Brittany Spaniel Cavalier...Belgian Malinois Belgian Tervuren Border Collie Cardigan Corgi Doberman Pinscher...
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Transformation: from Teacher-centered to Student-centered Engineering Education
Journal article by George D. Catalano, Karen Catalano; Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 88, 1999
...such sharing as being a "nurturing professor." We offer a more colloquial and anthropomorphic metaphor, teacher as "border-collie," shepherding students along a path yet keeping a distance, constantly in motion yet never at the center of attention...
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The Algebra of Snow
Journal article by Virginia A. K. Moran; Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, 1998
Subjects: Feminism
...for the food. No wonder. Neither do I. "Paper or plastic?" he says. He flaps open a bag. Someone comes to help. "A border collie," I say. "Black and white. Her name is Galen." "Oh," the man says. He looks at me. I will him to ask the right questions...
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Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Journal article by Cynthia Wall; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 46, 2006
Subjects: English literature--Criticism and interpretation, Restoration age literature--Criticism and interpretation
...readers into sheeplike pens, passively responding as the border collie novel (not the novelist) ordains. The examples are few...the autopsy exemplified the anecdotes position at the borders of life and death, to consider Johnsons living body...
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My Border Collie Would Have a Sort of Crimp in Its Coat and Would Be Called Bob
Magazine article by Andrew Martin; New Statesman, Vol. 132, October 13, 2003
Subjects: Country life--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Farm life--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Literary festivals--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.
My border collie would have a sort of crimp in its coat...between seven and nine, and I would have a border collie, like the man who runs the Bolton Abbey...where I did my reading. He told me that border collies come in two categories: the neurotic...
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Fufus & Fidos - at the Westminster Dog Show
Magazine article by Jonah Goldberg; National Review, March 20, 2000
Subjects: Show dogs--Competitions, Westminster Kennel Club--Competitions
...nose. This is why, for example, Border-collie breeders fought tooth and nail...AKC. From the day theyre born, Border- collie puppies herd anything that moves-tennis...advocate of eugenics.) Many Border-collie breeders feared, and fear, that...
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Thank God the Dog Is Dead
Magazine article by Tom Morton; New Statesman, Vol. 128, November 22, 1999
Subjects: Dogs--Personal narratives
...elephant, or children. Not only that, but Clumsy was a biter or, to be exact, a nipper. A runtish mongrel with vague Border Collie/rat antecedents, he was prone to snapping if you remonstrated with him about his faecal activities. During the four...
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Going to the Dogs
Magazine article by Karen Hopkin; The Scientist, Vol. 22, August 2008
Subjects: Cancer, Disease, Drugs, Evolutionary biology, Gene expression, Genetic markers, Growth hormones, Medical research, Science
...causes a very similar syndrome in humans, as well as the border collie equivalent of a human eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa...was driven home when Ostrander lost her 13-year-old border collie, Tess, in 2006. "I tiiought that because I knew so much...
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The 2008 Veepstakes
Magazine article; The American Prospect, Vol. 19, March 2008
Subjects: Biden, Joseph R.--Evaluation, Napolitano, Janet--Evaluation, Salazar, Ken--Evaluation, Schweitzer, Brian--Evaluation, Sebelius, Kathleen--Evaluation, Strickland, Ted--Evaluation, Vice-Presidential candidates--Evaluation, Webb, Jim--Evaluation
...Schweitzer of Montana, a mint farmer who regularly wears jeans and bolo ties and is followed around almost everywhere by his border collie, Jag, even the most comfortable-in-their-own-skin politicians seem like wooden mannequins. Despite being outspent almost...
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My Border Collie Loves; Animal Magic
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), August 19, 2007
My Border Collie Loves; Animal Magic. Byline: Scott Miller Q My Border collie loves to play fetch but will only return...such as swimming. Q My nine-month-old Border collie growls and barks at strangers, especially...
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WALES: Teens' River Ordeal to Save a Dog; BOYS RISK LIVES TO RESCUE BORDER COLLIE
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 25, 2006
Subjects: Dogs
...Dog; BOYS RISK LIVES TO RESCUE BORDER COLLIE. Byline: By GARETH BICKNELL...own safety to drag an injured border collie to dry land after spotting it...back for the other dog, a black border collie. Luigi, who has two dogs of his...
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SHOT, DROWNED OR BEHEADED...THE SAD FATE OF 10,000 COLLIES; If You Can Give an Abandoned Collie a Home, Call the Border Collie Trust on 01889 577058 or Write to Them at Heathway, Colton, near Rugeley, Staffs
Newspaper article by Mark Nicol; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 6, 1999
...Abandoned Collie a Home, Call the Border Collie Trust on 01889 577058 or Write...pet Shep in Blue Peter. Yet border collies have become the latest victim...investigation last night after the Border Collie Trust revealed the scale of the...
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Border Collie Does Well at Last Obedience Competition
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 23, 2005
Border Collie Does Well at Last Obedience Competition. Byline: Lenore Adkins Mitch, a border collie from Elgin, is fresh back from Florida...including three German shepherds, two border collies and one mixed breed. Faithful readers...
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Farmers' Tributes to Best Friends and Work Mates; Farming Men on Motorbikes and Quads May Move Faster but They're Unlikely to Make the Black and White Border Collie Redundant from the Region's Farms. Karen Dent Discovers Why the Working Dog Is So Important - and Why North East Dog Handlers Are among the Best in the World
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 7, 2009
...Unlikely to Make the Black and White Border Collie Redundant from the Regions Farms...for his trouble. Now the use of Border collies is widespread on farms around...who currently has four adult Border collies and a litter of seven puppies...
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encyclopedia articles on: Border Collie  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Border Collie
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BORDER COLLIE breed of medium-sized, sheepherding dog developed in the British...Bred for many years exclusively to develop its herding instinct, the border collie is unsurpassed as a sheep dog and has been used with equal success for...
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Australian Kelpie
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...g., black, black and tan, red, red and tan, fawn, chocolate, or smoke blue. It has generally been accepted that the border collie and probably the dingo were ancestors of the kelpie. Trained to respond both to hand signal and whistle, this rugged...
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Dog
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Australian cattle dog , the Australian kelpie , the Bichon Frise (a French descendant of the water spaniel), the border collie (an English shepherd dog), the cavalier King Charles spaniel , the Ibizan hound (of Spanish origin), the miniature...


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