Collie Dog

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Have a pet collie dog but he does strange things.

 

He sleeps in the rain, lies out in the frost and worst of all he will dig a hole and lie in it instead of sleeping in dog box.

He never stops digging holes to sleep in. Espically in bad or hot weather.

 

Any ideas

 

 

Knifebar

[hang & bang 114]

Have a pet collie dog but he does strange things.

 

He sleeps in the rain, lies out in the frost and worst of all he will dig a hole and lie in it instead of sleeping in dog box.

He never stops digging holes to sleep in. Espically in bad or hot weather.

 

Any ideas

 

 

Knifebar

 

 

[bird 10,016]

All dogs dig, go round any farm and see how alot of collies live. They sleep any feckin were,

under tractors, under edges, they are a tough old dog. chain him to a kennal, that will stop him

from diggin all over the place.

 

BIRD

[Neal 1,932]

I used to have a kelpie/collie x greyhound who preferred to either drag his blanket out of the kennel and sleep on the concrete or sleep curled up in a ball on the top of the kennel, even in the rain. Mad bugger! When I lived in Cumbria a neighbour had a half bred Samoyed x Sheepdog who slept in my garden in the lee of the hedge, even in the snow. I can also remember walking through one farm yard with collies laying on a handful of straw in half buried beer barrels in a sea of mud.

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I used to have a kelpie/collie x greyhound who preferred to either drag his blanket out of the kennel and sleep on the concrete or sleep curled up in a ball on the top of the kennel, even in the rain. Mad bugger! When I lived in Cumbria a neighbour had a half bred Samoyed x Sheepdog who slept in my garden in the lee of the hedge, even in the snow. I can also remember walking through one farm yard with collies laying on a handful of straw in half buried beer barrels in a sea of mud.

 

 

Funny enough he's well bred and the fellow who gave him to me said he was a kelpie but I don'nt know what that means.

 

 

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[Neal 1,932]

If you put Kelpie into the search on here or Australian Kelpie into google you should find plenty of information to keep you occupied for a few hours.

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If you put Kelpie into the search on here or Australian Kelpie into google you should find plenty of information to keep you occupied for a few hours.

 

Cheers Neal

 

 

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you could always slab your garden

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

How about the Simple answer? The Dog is simply being a DOG! He's doing what unspoiled, natural instincted, 'proper' Dogs would do.

 

" Chain him to a kennel " ?! Ye'd have a f*cking great crater around a load of splintered wood inside a bloody week, ffs!

 

Personally, I'd Treasure such a Dog! Only I'd like an - 100 pounder with muscles and strong jaws. Imagine how well ye'd sleep, knowing a Thing like that was securely fenced inside ye compound ..... Just 'Out there. Somewhere in the dark.'

 

In my life time, a few such Dogs still existed. " Gamekeepers Night Dogs ". They had that way about them too. Plus much more.

[Caravan Monster 323]

The old collie on this farm was left to her own devices. In the depths of winter, she used to sleep under the caravan, where the hot exhaust gas came out of the gas heater. I could hear her there, snoring at night! The nutty old thing had obviously been seriously knocked around by someone and wouldn' t really come near people, but her owner could coax her into doing a bit of shepherding, and she would keep foxes out of the yard and make the presence of strangers known. In the end, the fecking scumbag grazier ran her over, front and back wheels square on with lots of screaming, and didn't even slow down- he had more important things to do.

 

What I'm trying to say is that this type of behaviour is sometimes instinctive in such dogs- it' s just the way they are, and in the right place, very useful dogs they can be too.