I had a mutt from the shelter that was a bro. However, the smell of rabbits drove him crazy. He'd always come back, though. That crazy hound was able to climb trees
>>667359They are difficult to train in the idea that they will try very hard to find ways around your rules, like a smart-ass kid. Let's say you are training him to not chase the chickens. Well, then he finds other ways to rile them up like barking at them. Train him not to bark at the chickens, then he is jumping next to them to get a rise out of them. Train him out of that, and now he is doing something ridiculous like pushing logs into the pen to scare them. They also have a tendency to pick up on small cues we don't recognize, and may associate that with a command. For example, let's say your dog barks on command to "speak", but when you say speak, you also twitch your hand. Now the dog barks at every hand twitch thinking it will get a treat.
Not all Border Collies will display that behavior and that behavior isn't unique to Border Collies, but it is very common due to their intelligence.
>>662583Yes, and I pay $300 more than my neighbors because of it. Shitty apartment, shitty neighborhood, and I can't find anywhere else to live because >big dog
>>654447>not finding a stray dog a and stealing the dog and all her pups>>651884The number 1 reasons dogs are surrendered to shelters are because the person is moving, followed by landlord issues, followed by financial reasons. This makes up more than half of surrender cases. On average, animal shelters receive less than 1% of animals from court cases, which would include beating, dog fighting, neglect, fucking, etc.
If you are trying to say people get shelter animals for that reason, it doesn't happen often because 1) animal shelters have lists of people to not adopt out to and 2) Craigslist is a lot cheaper for an animal you are just going to use and toss
>>668918Do you mean this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_syndrome 
