Border Collie Rescue in Tennessee

The Border Collie was beginning as a true breed in the early 19th Century in order to help sheepherders mind and guide their flocks. They were actually bred first to learn to gather up wandering flocks and bring them back to their holding areas from the hills where they fed in Scotland and the highlands of England. A good site to begin learning about this working breed is http://www.bordercollie.org/core.html. 

This group is dedicated to educating the public and dog owners about how to train and value a good Border Collie. They look at this breed as much more of a skilled working dog, and highly valued for its superior traits in working with livestock. These traits are invaluable to the shepherds and cattle owners who consider them as a right-hand in their ability to manage and control their flocks and herds. A good Border Collie’s “obsession is its livestock,” they say. These dogs have a purpose well beyond grace and speed. They worth and value is in their work. Anyone who has owned a working dog, as I have, realizes that to treat this type of dog as a house pet or as a show dog is not only an insult to the animal, but it is also will break its spirit and deny it the active and purposeful life it was originally bred for - a true cruelty.