Reply #16: If you make sure they have plenty of exercise [View All]

[tenshi816]

and talk to them a lot (mine seems to "understand" on the level of about a 2-year old child - I can tell him to do things in the same way I did my children at about that age, and he responds accordingly, things like "go get your ball", "go downstairs", "go into the kitchen", and so on), you'd be fine with a border collie.

Plus, as I said in another post, he knows how to open doors and gates, and how to find certain places on the moor without me taking him there. We can start out on walks to certain destinations and he just goes on ahead and I catch up with him 20 minutes later, to find him sitting there waiting for me.

On the downside, we had to train him not to run sheep on the moor, something that goes against his nature, and he compensates by trying to round people up.

Edited to finish a sentence...