Melanie wrote:

What's interesting about this picture?


http://www.pbase.com/pastorshill/image/49962368


From the USBCHA National Finals, just held in Sturgis, SD. Photo by
Christine Koval.

Is this a bc with a beardie ancestor? -hope that made sense!
Did you get to go to the finals?
BTW, loved the picture of Fly the cover girl.

Beth

(Melanie L Chang) writes:

What's interesting about this picture?

http://www.pbase.com/pastorshill/image/49962368

Now that dog looks like it could have some beardie in it not too far back...

--
Stafford A. Rau
raudog @ rauhaus.org

(Melanie L Chang) writes:

James is a working Beardie, which I guess some people would consider a
Border Collie/Bearded Collie cross.

Did you get a close look at that dog? Do you know what his feet look
like?

One of the physical differences I've noticed between border collies
and (at least AKC-type) beardies is the feet - the beardies I've met
have very large, wide feet. Is that also the case with working
beardies?

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Stafford A. Rau
raudog @ rauhaus.org

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Melanie L Chang whittled these words:
Stafford A. Rau ) wrote:

: Now that dog looks like it could have some beardie in it not too far back...

Yup. And this dog, and Fly, and a number of other similar dogs, are all
eligible for full AKC registration. I wonder if they realize that?


Of course they are. They aren't cloistered from the information so
readily available. The decision about what is or is not a breed is in
the end arbitrary. AKC is fully aware that breeding certain breeds can
technically produce a puppy of another "breed" e.g. the Belgian Shepherd.
In FCI it is one breed, four varieties.
http://www.thepetprofessor.com/breed..._sheepdog.aspx

The decision about what is still the same breed is best applied without
hard and fast rules.


--
Diane Blackman
There is no moral victory in proclaiming to abhor violence
while preaching with violent words.
http://dog-play.com/ http://dogplayshops.com/

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Melanie L Chang whittled these words:

The working beardies I know are highly variable in physical phenotype,
same as the working Border Collies. I don't know that I can characterize
their feet. Unfortunately now all the working beardies in this country
that I know of are on the opposite coast from me.

Last time I was at the facilities of a well known trainer near Jackson
there was a working beardie on the premises.

--
Diane Blackman
There is no moral victory in proclaiming to abhor violence
while preaching with violent words.
http://dog-play.com/ http://dogplayshops.com/