Border Collies: Big or Small, I Love Them All

Back in December, I placed a reservation on a puppy from a well known breeder known as Satus Stockdogs. I planned on getting a male to start my breeding program with. When I got Cash in January I didn't cancel the reservation just in case he didn't turn out. He didn't, but I had also decided that I didn't want a male anymore. I don't like them as much as females, and I didn't think I'd give them the work and time they needed if they had to rival for my attention over a female, who I liked better. 

When the planned litter was born, there was only one male anyway, and there was someone on the list ahead of me. So I went ahead and got a female from, actually, a different litter than I originally had a reservation on. 

This is Jinger. So far, she is very high strung, a talker, and thinks she's tough. She's already staring down the goats and jumping to nip their noses. Kate doesn't like to bite anything that's standing still, and that's not good. Stuff I've read has always said it's better to have too much bite than too little, because you can train a dog to calm down, but you can't train it to bite. 

Anyway, she's a whopping five pounds right now. An online weight calculator says she's only going to get to 17.8 pounds as an adult, and it was accurate with Bonny and Kate, so boooo! I hope it's not right this time otherwise she may only get the herd rabbits! 

Edit: I double checked and I was wrong. It said Kate would be 31 pounds, and she is 37, I believe, and on the thin side. It said Bonny would be 27 pounds, and she is over 50. It's waaaayyy off, so I don't know why I thought it had been accurate!

Goofy Kate with her ears inside out from rolling around like a monster.  

She's very skilled at entertaining herself for a long time with one toy. In the picture below, she somehow got the toy on her back leg and is rolling widely, trying to get it off. She'll also sling toys and play fetch with herself, or throw them up into the air and catch them as they come back down.

I'm gonna try and get a weekly picture of Kate and Jinger to have a growth timeline for her. I'll probably share the monthly pictures on here. 

Here is a video of Kate's herding progress, taken last night. The object was to get the calves into the barn. They didn't want to go because the videographer and his assistant were perched on the fence next to the barn. She did great-I'm still smiling about it. She really needs to bite more and teach them things a lesson though. As you can see, she is content to just hold them and not have them move, so I have to come and get the moving. It doesn't help matters that they aren't "dog broke" and don't respect her-expecially a certain black one who is always trying to get her.