My husband and I are planning on getting a second dog and have been thinking seriously about a rough collie. My mother had Shelties for much of her adult life and has a mini Aussie now, so I'm not a complete stranger to the sheepdog temperament, but I've never had one myself.

We are looking for a large, medium-energy male dog who will be fine living alongside our (very lazy) lab mix and our cat. We are in our mid-thirties, suburban, no kids. My husband and I both have a general preference for cuddliness in a dog but have always heard that many collies are a bit more aloof than, say, retrievers. Would this be a potential good fit for our family?

My 5 month old baby has severe anxiety especially in the car. She drools like crazy, whines, and will throw up if the ride is more than a few minutes. Has anyone else gone through this? If so, how did you help them? Did you give them medication? TIA!

He's the total package but one where dignity and thoughts were replaced with fluff and snoot.

I have a smooth collie pup who seems to be going through some fluctuations with his ears as he grows. I read that other breeds with erect/semi-erect ears tend to go through some wonky phases, but I'm finding it a bit harder to find information on that with collies since most of collie puppy ear info out there is about taping/gluing ears. I'm wondering if anyone here has knowledge on this from their collie experience, and at what age it's likely to know when the ears are done developing and are what they will be for the rest of his life. After teething? Full maturity?

I have zero plans to try and modify the way my pup's ears look since he's not destined for the show ring or anything, whatever way they naturally end up is how they're going to be! I'm just curious, mostly :)

When he came home his ears were small and mostly floppy, at 14 weeks old they grew in size and started going up, now 2 weeks since then they've gone back to floppy.

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(This photo was taken yesterday while visiting a family member, where he happily took up the resident golden retriever's bed as if it were his own lol!)

Gus (Asgrim Hijos de Odín,8yrs corgi), Bruno (8yrs collie) and Skyrim (Ciara del Villar de la Plata, 9mths wolfie)

Wow it’s been wild with her these past few weeks! She is such a good girl. But man, puppy teeth are the sharpest things I’ve ever had on my skin!!

Home Sweet Home

Any one do it? Know how to do it? my puppy is 8 weeks old and I am thinking I might like to tip his ears

Such a handsome boi he's growing up so fast.💖💖💖

We adopted this little potato and I’m so in love. Mom is a sheltie and dad is rough collie. I feel like Finn will take on more of his Dad but what do you think?

My collie mix is 14 years old and struggles with mobility and standing for any length of time these days due to muscle weakness in her legs. Due to this, professional grooming has taken a backseat in the last year.

In an effort to clean her late last year, we tried to bathe her ourselves (knowing the previous time she was professionally groomed, she was lethargic for a full day afterwards), and not only did her undercoat become a mess of mats, but the following day she was lethargic again and subsequently developed idiopathic vestibular syndrome (commonly known as old dog disease, it's basically extreme vertigo that dogs may or may not recover from, but she did recover in about a week but remains a bit more unsteady on her feet since). We had been very careful to support her, allow rest breaks whenever wanted, and kept water out of her ears (figured something like balance issues could be related to that).

Due to the condition, she's become more incontinent but diapers don't work due to her massive tail and it creates pressure on her back end leading to even less mobility, so we've been relying on reusable puppy pads, but she often ends of sleeping on these, and therefore her own pee. We're debating what is the most ethical choice to get her clean since pet wipes and dry shampoo don't work in this case. I could ask the groomer to give her breaks but I'm not I could explain the extent, nor if instructions would be followed.

TLDR: how best to groom or bathe our senior collie who can't stand for long periods and continues to exhibit mild symptoms of vertigo?