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The Rough Collie (also known as the Long-Haired Collie) is a long-coated dog breed of medium to large size that, in its original form, was a type of collie used and bred for herding sheep in Scotland. More recent breeding has focused on the Collie as a show dog, and also companion.
The collie type is not specified, but the illustrations look rather like a Rough Collie. The eponymous dog from the film Bingo. Flo, a collie in All Dogs Go to Heaven; Murray, the male collie from the TV series Mad About You. A collie in White Fang by Jack London is the mate of the wolfdog White Fang
Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, Lassie Come-Home. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fictional female collie of the same name, featured in the British writer Elizabeth Gaskell 's 1859 short ...
Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 25, 1973, making it the eighth longest-running scripted American primetime television series.
(My parentheses: collie in the US means rough collie in the UK.) Finally, in the above book, there is discussion of the history of the breed, and the show standard, which bred out the stamina of the original collie, and resulting in a relatively lazy dog, particularly when contrasted with the border collie happy to walk 40 miles a day.
NEW YORK (AP) — When the Westminster Kennel Club dog show added an agility competition a decade ago, it opened U.S. dogdom's most elite door to mixed breeds for the first time since the late 1800s.
A study in the UK looking at clinical records found the Border Collie to have the highest prevalence of hepatic neoplasia. Border Collies were 2.67 times more likely to acquire the condition than other breeds. [31] The Border Collie is one of the more commonly affected breeds for a mutation in the MDR1 gene. [22]
While the Shetland still excels at herding, today it is often raised as a working dog or family pet. [2] The Shetland's origins are obscure, but it is not a direct descendant of the Rough Collie, which it largely resembles. Rather, the Shetland is a descendant of small specimens of the Scottish Collie and the King Charles Spaniel.