Comments on: A little boy has fallen down a well!!

By: alana

alana — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:12:53 +0000

I literally lol’ed

By: Furthea

Furthea — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:22:16 +0000

lol. Both our previous shelties grew entirely out of the standard. XD So they both were shown in Agility and obediance.

What most people don’t catch is that shelties and collies actually have quite different faces in structure, if not always in color.

Collies from nose tip to mid-skull or so are very straight, whereas Shelties have a notable curve where the muzzle becomes face and skull.

Even the oversized ones.

I have to agree on your opinion of the judges. I don’t really watch many of the breed shows these days but when I catch a bit of one I really have to stop and think “WTF,” on some of their choices.

Especially on one’s like the Labradors and German shepherds. If a dog can’t do the work they were originally designed for then they don’t fit the real standard for the breed.

sorry
*/rant*

By: LirrenShentai

LirrenShentai — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:05:01 +0000

Lassie’s other, less-well-known sister, Lisa, had a strange sense of humor. <_< (I loled)

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:59:16 +0000

It’s quite likely that they were talking about new judge preferences within the collie line, which aren’t often even perceptible to those ‘outside the know.’ For example, in the past few years judges have been favoring bigger shelties ,which my breeder dislikes–by bigger, they mean closer to the upper end of 16′ at shoulder instead of 13′…a total height gap of 3′ inches, which is probably barely noticeable to people who aren’t sheltie lovers.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:57:09 +0000

Actually, collies were introduced into the sheltie line as recently as the 1930′s. But it’s true that they’re shelties. I have a sheltie and everyone calls him “lassie”…o.O

By: loverofthefood

loverofthefood — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:27:46 +0000

well…….i like it.

By: Furthea

Furthea — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:18:54 +0000

Because it’s more fun to snark?

By: CottlestonPie

CottlestonPie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:09:13 +0000

Your fingers apparently aren’t broken. How about you provide a “better” caption instead of just snarking about it?

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:56:18 +0000

Hopefully someone can provide a better caption than this one.

By: Scigirl

Scigirl — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:24:20 +0000

I agree with doggie on right – Hilarious!

By: yasoup

yasoup — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:06:28 +0000

I wouldn’t have thought they were collies either, until I read “Lad, a Dog” and read the scene where Lad’s owner was upset about the new, lighter type with longer noses and lighter bones, versus Lad’s robust type…

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:32:15 +0000

lol

By: duuuuuuuuuuuude

duuuuuuuuuuuude — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:28:40 +0000

Like ying and yang

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:44:54 +0000

The dog on the right pushed the kid into the well.

By: Furthea

Furthea — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:20:01 +0000

AUGH!!!!!

Those aren’t COLLIES!

Lassie was a Collie. Those are Shetland Sheepdogs, better known as Shelties. And any relation they might have with Collies is centuries old.

Sorry….it’s a Pet Peeve I inherited from my mother.

By: woodchuck

woodchuck — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:59:01 +0000

I always suspected that Lassie had an evil twin.

By: rosieluv

rosieluv — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:17:32 +0000

Laddie is from Mars, Lassie is from Venus.

By: Judson

Judson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:42:01 +0000

Same well every week, dis kid is some kind of clumsy.

By: Candy

Candy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:40:40 +0000

empathy dawg is empateth…empathi…is nice goggie, jerkface dawg is jerkface