i recently went to someones barbeque party. I was looking forward to seeing my friends and blah blah balh, but when I arrived, i was greeted by a border collie with a stick in its mouth!
I spoke with a few people for the first 5 or 10 mins, but after that I noticed the collie had no-one to playw ith, so I went up to it, took the stick, and threw it! it ran, picked it up, and brought it back. i spent almost 2 hours playing with it!!!
when the part ended we went home and ever since I can't get the memory of playng with the dog out of my head!

I have thought about getting one, and i know it is hard work, but i think it could be quite fun to get a small border collie, train it, walk it, play with it and have it as a friend! However, my parents think that I would get bored of waling it, and throuwing a ball for it, however I am sure they are wrong.

Do any of you own dogs/border collies, if so, are there any important things I should know about them before i think about going and getting one. I ahve a small list of things to do once i have it, here it is:

• Train it
  
• walk it (lots)
  
• play with it (lots)
  
• feed it
  
• give it plenty or attension (lots)
  

if there is naything else I should know please tell me, I ahve never owned a dog, but I ahve to start somewhere. I need info!

edit: I am told that they need lots of exersize - they are herding dogs and are very energetic, but I am away at school for about 7 hours a day, this means i could exersize it in the garden for about half an hour every morning, and then take it for a long walk after school. and at weekends I would ahve lots more time on my hands. But is 7 hours to long to leave it alone for?

from telling you my schedule and stuff, would you say i'm a sutibale owner for a dog?

Another edit:

I should also mention that there are four people in my family; Me (12) My sister (, my mum and dad... and a cat. I know that the cat would be a problem because BC dogs like to herd and chase stuff, but i've had some very good advice from some people about training them to adapt to their surroundings and to all thats tuff

Lol i cant help you with this because my dogs r lazy lol and they never play with me.

My dogs r pugs.

hmm it seems like you have pretty much everything covered

i have a Chow/German Sheppard, my dog is so cute xD

To me dogs are like this:

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Well my dog is half collie ( and half whippet)

She is really energetic, but because I live on a farm there is lots of land she runs around whenever she likes, so there's no problem for me excercising her. (she loves playing fetch too!)

And also... I think border collies are really well behaved...Its just in their genes i think

Usually cats are worse threats to the dogs... Well, mine are

But anyways.. Maybe you shouldn't get a border collie. I mean, just cause the one you saw was really nice, not all of them might be like that. And you certainly don't want to make a bad decision... You could really regret it

I love pugs!

LOL that dog is cross eyed xD nice pug, yeah very cute tho.