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Without a doubt, it is to the English fancy of the late 1800s that the breed owes its development as a popular show dog. Rough Collies were first exhibited in 1860 at the Birmingham, England dog show, in the generic class "Scotch Sheep-Dogs". Sable Rough Collie. In 1879 the first English Rough Collie was imported to this country.
Scotch Collie Scotch collies are separated into two varieties or breeds: Rough Collie and Smooth Collie. They are rather a different type to other collies with a long narrow face, tall, profuse coat and semi-erect ears. They are still used for herding as well as for showing.
When the breed was originally introduced breeders called them Shetland Collies, which upset Rough Collie breeders, so the name was changed to Shetland Sheepdog. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] During the early 20th century (up until the 1940s), additional crosses were made to Rough Collies to help retain the desired Rough Collie type – in fact, the first English ...
At this point, they went by the name Scottish Collie or Shetland Collie, but eventually, their name was changed to the Shetland Sheepdog. The American Kennel Club registered them a few years later ...
An example of a dog landrace with a related standardized breed with a similar name is the collie. The Scotch Collie is a landrace, while the Rough Collie and the Border Collie are standardized breeds. They can be very different in appearance, though the Rough Collie in particular was developed from the Scotch Collie by inbreeding to fix certain ...
Rough collies became popular thanks to the TV series Lassie. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in ...
Separately from all that, the formal names of those two breeds are not just "Collie", but Scotch Collie and Rough Collie, and so their articles are also titled correctly. --Richard New Forest 13:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC) LOL, wish there was a way to upvote your comment, Richard New Forest! Precisely said.
In 1915, James Reid, Secretary of the International Sheep Dog Society (ISDS) in the United Kingdom first used the term "border collie" to distinguish those dogs registered by the ISDS from the Kennel Club's collie (or Scotch collie, including the rough collie and smooth collie) which originally came from the same working stock but had developed ...