The Border Collie raised by my neighbor is very well trained. Not only can it listen to commands and read eyes at a very young age, but the physical fitness and reaction ability of an agility dog are also great. I heard from my neighbors that they sometimes take them to participate in some competitions. I’m so envious.
Let me go off topic and talk about my dog. I like Border Collie very much, but Border Collie sheds hair. Because I am a little allergic to dog hair, I raise a local Australian shepherd dog Kelpie. It is said that this breed also has the bloodline of Border Collie. It looks like the body shape and size are indeed very similar to Border Collie, and they are both agility dog breeds, but the hair is short and hard, not easy to shed hair, and the hair color is more diverse. IQ, obedience, subjective consciousness, physical fitness, and reaction ability are also in the same vein as the Border Collie. After all, it is one of the few working dog breeds that can be used for herding sheep and even cattle. The Border Collie and Kelpie here are popular choices for farmers as working dogs. Many other shepherd dogs are also called shepherd dogs, but they actually have no ability to herd sheep.
How smart is it? I think sometimes it can be compared to a five or six-year-old child. Before training, I looked up various materials and watched videos. As a result, I found that training was easier than I thought at the beginning… When I was just 3 months old, I knew that I had to wait for the owner’s command to eat. We put the dog food in front of him and turned around and walked away. We found that he would sit there and wait for instructions. No matter whether the owner was in front of him or not, he would only eat when the command told him to eat.
The second day after I brought him home, I started playing the Frisbee throwing game with the children. After a little demonstration, he knew to pick up the Frisbee and the ball. Now ball games are also his favorite. After
training, he knew to go out to urinate and defecate on the third day, and he only went to the designated location to go to the toilet when he was in the yard.
I am lazy, so sometimes I teach him sporadically when I feel like it. From 3 months to more than 5 months, he has gradually learned to sit, lie down, roll, jump, high-five, and shake hands by listening to commands and gestures, and the commands can be in bilingual…
What’s interesting is that the dog can read people’s expressions. Sometimes I don’t need to say anything when he comes over. With a look, expression, and small movements of his body, he can judge whether I want him to come over for a kiss or to go cool off…
I think the most amazing thing is that he often sees me cleaning up the fallen branches, leaves, and fruits from the trees in the yard. After half a month, I suddenly found that he actually started to carry the larger branches to the place where I piled branches next to the trash can. I never taught him specifically, but he actually started to help me work… You know, he was only more than 5 months old at the time, and he was more useful than my 6-year-old son.
But he also has bad habits, such as digging holes and hiding toys, which is probably related to his nature. He digs holes and runs to the field where I grow vegetables, which can make people angry to death. It’s useless to teach him a lesson several times. At first, he would dig up the vegetables directly. If I wasn’t allowed to dig up the vegetables, he would run to the place where the seeds had just been sown but hadn’t sprouted yet and dig up the seeds and turn them upside down. After I scolded him and filled the soil, he ran to the edge of the vegetable field and continued to dig a big hole. He also pulled out the species labels inserted next to it one by one and piled them together… I could feel that he knew that digging holes was wrong, but he just couldn’t control himself. Once, I let him play in the yard by himself for a while and then he became silent. When I entered the yard, I saw him lying on the ground at the door obediently. When he saw me coming out, he immediately lowered his head and whimpered a few times, and secretly glanced at me without daring to look me in the eye. My heart immediately skipped a beat, and I guessed that he had done something bad. Sure enough, when I walked over, I saw three small cabbages neatly lying in a row next to his buttocks. Seeing him like a child who had done something wrong, I really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry…
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