Border Collies are the breed of choice when it comes to sheep farming. It’s been that way for centuries and the reasons are many. Their intelligence, their speed and their aptitude. But if there’s any doubts as to why Border Collies rule when it comes to herding sheep, let this dog put them to rest.
As you’ll see in the clip below, the Border Collie simply has to be called into action and he’s off and running to a flock of 10 sheep in the distance.
Soon he’s herding them back to the barn without much fuss. It’s all in a day’s work for this expert in the field!
David was motorbiking down an empty motorway when he spotted an emaciated dog by the side of the road. The dog was skin and bones and on her last legs. “I don’t have the heart to leave her. I was gonna leave buy I don’t have the heart,” he says in a video of her…
Mothers teach their children all kinds of things as they grow up, and this Husky mama is no exception. In this adorable video, she is teaching her puppies how to howl. They take a cue from her and begin to “sing the song of their people”. One cute puppy is a bit slower than the…
A friendship between a dog with a tragic past and a young boy struggling with his differences changed their lives forever. In January 2012, an Anatolian Shepherd named Haatchi was not yet a year old when he was deliberately tied to a railway line in North London and hit by a train. His tail was…
A young dog in “heartbreaking condition” has made a wonderful recovery after she was rescued from a garage yard. Arnia is one of the four dogs Howl of A Dog recently rescued when they found them starving and diseased among 15 dogs living at the garage. They were sadly victims of a dog hoarding situation…
This dog has figured out the unspoken rule that “no rules apply” when having fun in the snow. In this case, sledding with family. Then again, maybe he just decided to turn the tables on the whole notion of dog sledding!
Why do dogs smell each other’s butts? It turns out the reasons are more complex that you would think. This dog behavior is one of the animal kingdom’s more interesting forms of chemical communication. Not only that, but they have a secondary olfactory system called the Vomeronasal or Jacobson’s Organ that has its own fascinating…
