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• ‟ If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.

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• ‟ Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.

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• ‟ Border collies were trained in Scotland. They have the Scots' commands in their genes. At the dog trials, the owners wear those three-piece western suits, cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats, but they carry Scots shepherd's crooks over their arms and talk to their dogs in Scots accents.

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• ‟ You have to train a dog to think.

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• ‟ A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.

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• ‟ That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.

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• ‟ It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.

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