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margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: #626262 !important;\\\">The start of a new year can also signal a fresh start for dogs needing a change in their routine.\\u00a0 As with most Scottish Collies, Titus loves his routines but can become bored. He is always the first one at the door wanting to head out for a new adventure.\\u00a0 His entire world centers around me and I owe it to him to ensure he has the best life possible.<br \\/><br \\/>So why not take this New Years to set some resolutions to improving the quality of your dog\'s life.\\u00a0\\u00a0 Here are ten resolutions to make this year your dog\\u2019s healthiest year yet!<br \\/><br \\/>1. Try a new activity with your dog.\\u00a0 From hiking, jogging to kayaking, it\\u2019s easier than ever for people to incorporate their dog into a new exercise routine. It\\u2019s a great way to bond, it\\u2019ll get you both out of the house, and both owner and dog will reap the rewards of a healthy physical activity. Meet-up groups are a great way to find like-minded dog owners to join you in your exercise, too!<br \\/><br \\/>2. Dogs love to have their minds challenged. Train a new trick each month!\\u00a0 Sign up for dog classes. 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Why not take advantage of this opportunity and sign up today?<br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.facebook.com\\/groups\\/scottishcollieps\\/permalink\\/2236790539911917\\/\\\" target=\\\"_top\\\">https:\\/\\/www.facebook.com\\/groups\\/scottishcol7lieps\\/permalink\\/2236790539911917\\/<\\/a><br \\/><br \\/>3.Brushing! Collies are known for their abundant coats, why not get into the habit of brushing your dog on a daily basis (don\'t forget to trim between their paw pads and check those toenails periodically). Allow this opportunity to be a bonding and relaxing time together.<br \\/><br \\/>4. Toy Inventory. Now is a great time to sort through your dog\'s toys and discard those that are old and damaged and replace them with new ones. Begin rotating their toys on a weekly basis so they don\'t get bored with them.<br \\/>5. Rotate their dog food.\\u00a0 No one wants to eat the same food every single day. Adding a variety to their diet allows them to not only enjoy a different meal but expands their source of nutrition.<br \\/><br \\/>6. Bake your dog special treats. The internet is full of fantastic recipes for our canines family members.<br \\/><br \\/>7. Take your dog with you for a visit to the local pet store. No doubt they would love the adventure of exploring\\u00a0the store and the treats the cashier most likely will offer them.<br \\/><br \\/>8. Wash their bedding\\u00a0 and dog collars and make it a scheduled routine. What dog doesn\'t like a clean bed?<br \\/><br \\/>9. If you haven\'t already tested your dog for genetic mutations related to his\\/her breed, there are often sales available each month and it would be good to know their status. As a member of SCPS you has access to our discount code through Paw Print Genetics when testing your collie.\\u00a0<br \\/><br \\/>9. If you have been planning to register your collie with SCPS, why not do it this month?\\u00a0 They can participate in the Versatility Program and earn titles\\/ribbons for their accomplishments. Wouldn\'t that be fun!<br \\/><br \\/>10. 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. For this reason the Scottish Collie Preservation Society was formed, and chose to use the original Standards for the Scottish Collie (1885 to 1910) as the guide to returning the Collie to its more moderate form, with balance and harmony, as the most beautiful of the canine race.<\\/span><br><br><font color=\\\"#252525\\\">references<\\/font><br><a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.roughian.hr\\/stranice\\/Breed.htm\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\"><font color=\\\"#24678d\\\">http:\\/\\/www.roughian.hr\\/stranice\\/Breed.htm<\\/font><\\/a><\\/div>\",\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"b0052b7\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"widgetType\":\"text-editor\"},{\"id\":\"bb3a6a3\",\"elType\":\"widget\",\"settings\":{\"space\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"size\":76,\"sizes\":[]},\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"65059c1\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"widgetType\":\"spacer\"}],\"isInner\":false}],\"isInner\":false},{\"id\":\"c5cc86e\",\"elType\":\"section\",\"settings\":{\"structure\":\"20\",\"background_background\":\"classic\",\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"90502c9\"}]},\"elements\":[{\"id\":\"9b94d59\",\"elType\":\"column\",\"settings\":{\"_column_size\":50,\"_inline_size\":null,\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"651bfad\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"isInner\":false},{\"id\":\"3afcbb8\",\"elType\":\"column\",\"settings\":{\"_column_size\":50,\"_inline_size\":null,\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"7936be4\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"isInner\":false}],\"isInner\":false}]'),(10726,1604,'_elementor_edit_mode','builder'),(10727,1604,'_elementor_template_type','wp-page'),(10728,1604,'_elementor_version','3.5.4'),(10729,1604,'_elementor_pro_version','3.5.2'),(10730,1604,'_wp_page_template','elementor_canvas'),(10731,1604,'_elementor_page_settings','a:2:{s:10:\"hide_title\";s:3:\"yes\";s:18:\"eael_ext_toc_title\";s:17:\"Table of Contents\";}'),(10732,1604,'_elementor_data','[{\"id\":\"0a7eb58\",\"elType\":\"section\",\"settings\":{\"layout\":\"full_width\",\"structure\":\"30\",\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"9ffd321\"}]},\"elements\":[{\"id\":\"a4949a5\",\"elType\":\"column\",\"settings\":{\"_column_size\":33,\"_inline_size\":null,\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"f8304d8\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"isInner\":false},{\"id\":\"98b0638\",\"elType\":\"column\",\"settings\":{\"_column_size\":33,\"_inline_size\":null,\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"4bceaa5\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"isInner\":false},{\"id\":\"289147f\",\"elType\":\"column\",\"settings\":{\"_column_size\":33,\"_inline_size\":null,\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"520ea66\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"isInner\":false}],\"isInner\":false},{\"id\":\"48d2266\",\"elType\":\"section\",\"settings\":{\"layout\":\"full_width\",\"height\":\"min-height\",\"background_background\":\"classic\",\"background_image\":{\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/scpscollies.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2022\\/01\\/1050899496.jpg\",\"id\":776,\"alt\":\"\",\"source\":\"library\"},\"background_position\":\"center center\",\"background_size\":\"initial\",\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"ee8697e\"}]},\"elements\":[{\"id\":\"35ff772\",\"elType\":\"column\",\"settings\":{\"_column_size\":100,\"_inline_size\":null,\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"4945f32\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"isInner\":false}],\"isInner\":false},{\"id\":\"1cd83cc\",\"elType\":\"section\",\"settings\":{\"background_background\":\"classic\",\"background_color\":\"#FFF2CC\",\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"cb62113\"}]},\"elements\":[{\"id\":\"db18321\",\"elType\":\"column\",\"settings\":{\"_column_size\":100,\"_inline_size\":null,\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"46c8e6a\"}]},\"elements\":[{\"id\":\"42ac984\",\"elType\":\"widget\",\"settings\":{\"pa_condition_repeater\":[{\"_id\":\"f9549e0\"}]},\"elements\":[],\"widgetType\":\"spacer\"},{\"id\":\"4e68ec6\",\"elType\":\"widget\",\"settings\":{\"editor\":\"<h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: center; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">History of the Scottish Collie<\\/font><\\/h2><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\">The original Collie Standards tell us what the early collies looked like. It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. 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There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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margin-left: auto; color: #000000; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: center; font-family: \'Crimson Text\' !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: xx-large;\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Breed Standard<\\/span><\\/h2><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: #626262 !important;\\\"><em style=\\\"position: relative;\\\">The official breed standard for the Scottish Collie Preservation Society was drawn directly from the three Collie Standards of 1885, 1898, and 1910. \\u00a0The original language has been preserved as well, in order to restore the most authentic Scottish Collie possible.<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"color: #2a2a2a;\\\"><strong>ROUGH COATED<\\/strong><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">General Character:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0A lithe active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. \\u00a0He should be fair length on the leg, giving him more of racy than cloddy appearance. \\u00a0In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity, and intelligence, with free and true action.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Head:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0It should be moderately long in proportion to the dog\'s size, and covered with short, soft hair. \\u00a0The Skull should be flat, moderately wide between the ears and gradually tapering to the eyes. \\u00a0There should be a very slight elevation of the eyebrows and only a slight depression at the stop. \\u00a0The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. \\u00a0The cheek should not be full or prominent.<br \\/><br \\/>The muzzle should be of fair length tapering to the nose which whatever the color of the dog, should be black and must not show weakness or be snipey or lippy.<br \\/>The teeth, which must be white, and of good size, should not be either over nor undershot. \\u00a0Both are faults, the latter the greater of the two.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Eyes:<\\/span>\\u00a0 The eyes are a very important feature and give expression to the dog. \\u00a0They should be of fair or medium size, but not prominent. \\u00a0The eyes should be almond shaped and set somewhat obliquely in the head with an alert expression full of intelligence. \\u00a0Color may be any shade of brown, the darker the better, yellow eyes being a fault. Dogs of merle color frequently have either one or both eyes blue and white or china colored.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Ears:<\\/span>\\u00a0 Ears should be small, moderately wide at the base and placed not too close together on the top of the head, nor too much to the side of the head. \\u00a0The ears are covered with short soft hair longer towards the base and carried semi-erect when alert with tips slightly drooping; at other times they are thrown back and buried in the frill.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Neck:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0The neck should be muscular, powerful, of fair length, and somewhat arched.\'<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Body:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, the chest deep and narrow in front, but of fair breadth behind the shoulders, which should be oblique. \\u00a0The loins should be slightly arched. \\u00a0The dog should be straight in front.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Legs<\\/span><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Forelegs:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Should be straight and muscular, and neither in nor out at the elbows with a fair amount of bone, the forearm somewhat fleshy.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Hindlegs:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy, below the hocks very sinewy, and hocks well bent, pasterns long, and light in bone, with well bent stifles.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Feet:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be oval in shape, the soles well padded, and toes well arched and close. \\u00a0The hind feet are less arched, and the hocks well let down and powerful.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Tail:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward swirl at the end, and may be carried gaily when the dog is excited, but not over the back. \\u00a0The tail is carried almost straight out when running.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Coat:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0This is a very important point. \\u00a0The coat, except on the head and legs, should be abundant, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner coat soft and furry, and very close, so close, that it is difficult on parting the hair to see the skin. \\u00a0The hair is very abundant round the neck and chest; this is termed the frill. \\u00a0The mask is smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs are slightly feathered, the hind-legs\\u00a0below the hocks are smooth. \\u00a0Hair on tail is very profuse, and on the hips long and bushy.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">SMOOTH COATED<\\/span><br \\/>The Smooth Collie only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense, and quite smooth.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">ALL SCOTTISH COLLIES\\u00a0<\\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Color and Markings:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Are immaterial (except that solid white or red setter color are not desirable colors). \\u00a0A nice showily marked dog is preferred.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Size:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Dogs 22 inches to 24 inches at the shoulder, Bitches 20 to 22 inches.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Weight:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Dogs 45 lb.\\u00a0to 65 lb., Bitches 40 lb.\\u00a0to 55 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">EVALUATION\\u00a0<\\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Faults:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Domed skull, a disproportionately large head which may be too wide or too heavy with too pronounced or too exaggerated a stop, high peaked occipital bone, heavy, pendulous or prick ears, weak jaws, narrow muzzle, full soft, staring, or light eyes, crooked legs, large flat or hare feet, curly or soft coat, heavily feather legs, cow hocks, short tail or brush carried right over the back, under or overshot mouth, white or solid red color.<br \\/><br \\/>Faults in movement include a crooked or heavy cloddish gait, with resulting lack of speed or agility. \\u00a0<br \\/>The Collie should single track when moving at a high speed yet not cross its feet. \\u00a0The Collie should trot effortlessly with a floating trot. \\u00a0Pacing instead of trotting with subsequent rolling action is a fault.\\u00a0<\\/span><br \\/><br \\/><br \\/><br \\/><strong><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #24678d;\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY STANDARD -\\u00a02016<\\/span><\\/a><\\/strong><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/the-scottish-collie-clubs-standard-1885.html\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #24678d;\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE CLUB\\u2019S STANDARD \\u2013 1885<\\/span><\\/a><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/the-english-clubs-revised-standard-1898.html\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #3387a2;\\\">THE ENGLISH CLUBS\\u00b4 REVISED STANDARD \\u2013\\u00a01898<\\/span><\\/a><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; 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margin-left: auto; color: #000000; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: center; font-family: \'Crimson Text\' !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: xx-large;\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Breed Standard<\\/span><\\/h2><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: #626262 !important;\\\"><em style=\\\"position: relative;\\\">The official breed standard for the Scottish Collie Preservation Society was drawn directly from the three Collie Standards of 1885, 1898, and 1910. \\u00a0The original language has been preserved as well, in order to restore the most authentic Scottish Collie possible.<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"color: #2a2a2a;\\\"><strong>ROUGH COATED<\\/strong><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">General Character:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0A lithe active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. \\u00a0He should be fair length on the leg, giving him more of racy than cloddy appearance. \\u00a0In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity, and intelligence, with free and true action.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Head:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0It should be moderately long in proportion to the dog\'s size, and covered with short, soft hair. \\u00a0The Skull should be flat, moderately wide between the ears and gradually tapering to the eyes. \\u00a0There should be a very slight elevation of the eyebrows and only a slight depression at the stop. \\u00a0The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. \\u00a0The cheek should not be full or prominent.<br \\/><br \\/>The muzzle should be of fair length tapering to the nose which whatever the color of the dog, should be black and must not show weakness or be snipey or lippy.<br \\/>The teeth, which must be white, and of good size, should not be either over nor undershot. \\u00a0Both are faults, the latter the greater of the two.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Eyes:<\\/span>\\u00a0 The eyes are a very important feature and give expression to the dog. \\u00a0They should be of fair or medium size, but not prominent. \\u00a0The eyes should be almond shaped and set somewhat obliquely in the head with an alert expression full of intelligence. \\u00a0Color may be any shade of brown, the darker the better, yellow eyes being a fault. Dogs of merle color frequently have either one or both eyes blue and white or china colored.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Ears:<\\/span>\\u00a0 Ears should be small, moderately wide at the base and placed not too close together on the top of the head, nor too much to the side of the head. \\u00a0The ears are covered with short soft hair longer towards the base and carried semi-erect when alert with tips slightly drooping; at other times they are thrown back and buried in the frill.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Neck:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0The neck should be muscular, powerful, of fair length, and somewhat arched.\'<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Body:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, the chest deep and narrow in front, but of fair breadth behind the shoulders, which should be oblique. \\u00a0The loins should be slightly arched. \\u00a0The dog should be straight in front.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Legs<\\/span><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Forelegs:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Should be straight and muscular, and neither in nor out at the elbows with a fair amount of bone, the forearm somewhat fleshy.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Hindlegs:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy, below the hocks very sinewy, and hocks well bent, pasterns long, and light in bone, with well bent stifles.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Feet:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be oval in shape, the soles well padded, and toes well arched and close. \\u00a0The hind feet are less arched, and the hocks well let down and powerful.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Tail:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward swirl at the end, and may be carried gaily when the dog is excited, but not over the back. \\u00a0The tail is carried almost straight out when running.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Coat:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0This is a very important point. \\u00a0The coat, except on the head and legs, should be abundant, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner coat soft and furry, and very close, so close, that it is difficult on parting the hair to see the skin. \\u00a0The hair is very abundant round the neck and chest; this is termed the frill. \\u00a0The mask is smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs are slightly feathered, the hind-legs\\u00a0below the hocks are smooth. \\u00a0Hair on tail is very profuse, and on the hips long and bushy.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">SMOOTH COATED<\\/span><br \\/>The Smooth Collie only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense, and quite smooth.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">ALL SCOTTISH COLLIES\\u00a0<\\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Color and Markings:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Are immaterial (except that solid white or red setter color are not desirable colors). \\u00a0A nice showily marked dog is preferred.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Size:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Dogs 22 inches to 24 inches at the shoulder, Bitches 20 to 22 inches.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Weight:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Dogs 45 lb.\\u00a0to 65 lb., Bitches 40 lb.\\u00a0to 55 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">EVALUATION\\u00a0<\\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Faults:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Domed skull, a disproportionately large head which may be too wide or too heavy with too pronounced or too exaggerated a stop, high peaked occipital bone, heavy, pendulous or prick ears, weak jaws, narrow muzzle, full soft, staring, or light eyes, crooked legs, large flat or hare feet, curly or soft coat, heavily feather legs, cow hocks, short tail or brush carried right over the back, under or overshot mouth, white or solid red color.<br \\/><br \\/>Faults in movement include a crooked or heavy cloddish gait, with resulting lack of speed or agility. \\u00a0<br \\/>The Collie should single track when moving at a high speed yet not cross its feet. \\u00a0The Collie should trot effortlessly with a floating trot. \\u00a0Pacing instead of trotting with subsequent rolling action is a fault.\\u00a0<\\/span><br \\/><br \\/><br \\/><br \\/><strong><a style=\\\"color: inherit; 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margin-left: auto; color: #000000; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: center; font-family: \'Crimson Text\' !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: xx-large;\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Breed Standard<\\/span><\\/h2><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: #626262 !important;\\\"><em style=\\\"position: relative;\\\">The official breed standard for the Scottish Collie Preservation Society was drawn directly from the three Collie Standards of 1885, 1898, and 1910. \\u00a0The original language has been preserved as well, in order to restore the most authentic Scottish Collie possible.<\\/em><br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"color: #2a2a2a;\\\"><strong>ROUGH COATED<\\/strong><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">General Character:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0A lithe active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. \\u00a0He should be fair length on the leg, giving him more of racy than cloddy appearance. \\u00a0In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity, and intelligence, with free and true action.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Head:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0It should be moderately long in proportion to the dog\'s size, and covered with short, soft hair. \\u00a0The Skull should be flat, moderately wide between the ears and gradually tapering to the eyes. \\u00a0There should be a very slight elevation of the eyebrows and only a slight depression at the stop. \\u00a0The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. \\u00a0The cheek should not be full or prominent.<br \\/><br \\/>The muzzle should be of fair length tapering to the nose which whatever the color of the dog, should be black and must not show weakness or be snipey or lippy.<br \\/>The teeth, which must be white, and of good size, should not be either over nor undershot. \\u00a0Both are faults, the latter the greater of the two.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Eyes:<\\/span>\\u00a0 The eyes are a very important feature and give expression to the dog. \\u00a0They should be of fair or medium size, but not prominent. \\u00a0The eyes should be almond shaped and set somewhat obliquely in the head with an alert expression full of intelligence. \\u00a0Color may be any shade of brown, the darker the better, yellow eyes being a fault. Dogs of merle color frequently have either one or both eyes blue and white or china colored.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Ears:<\\/span>\\u00a0 Ears should be small, moderately wide at the base and placed not too close together on the top of the head, nor too much to the side of the head. \\u00a0The ears are covered with short soft hair longer towards the base and carried semi-erect when alert with tips slightly drooping; at other times they are thrown back and buried in the frill.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Neck:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0The neck should be muscular, powerful, of fair length, and somewhat arched.\'<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Body:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, the chest deep and narrow in front, but of fair breadth behind the shoulders, which should be oblique. \\u00a0The loins should be slightly arched. \\u00a0The dog should be straight in front.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Legs<\\/span><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Forelegs:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Should be straight and muscular, and neither in nor out at the elbows with a fair amount of bone, the forearm somewhat fleshy.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Hindlegs:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy, below the hocks very sinewy, and hocks well bent, pasterns long, and light in bone, with well bent stifles.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Feet:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be oval in shape, the soles well padded, and toes well arched and close. \\u00a0The hind feet are less arched, and the hocks well let down and powerful.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Tail:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward swirl at the end, and may be carried gaily when the dog is excited, but not over the back. \\u00a0The tail is carried almost straight out when running.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Coat:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0This is a very important point. \\u00a0The coat, except on the head and legs, should be abundant, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner coat soft and furry, and very close, so close, that it is difficult on parting the hair to see the skin. \\u00a0The hair is very abundant round the neck and chest; this is termed the frill. \\u00a0The mask is smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs are slightly feathered, the hind-legs\\u00a0below the hocks are smooth. \\u00a0Hair on tail is very profuse, and on the hips long and bushy.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">SMOOTH COATED<\\/span><br \\/>The Smooth Collie only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense, and quite smooth.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">ALL SCOTTISH COLLIES\\u00a0<\\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Color and Markings:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Are immaterial (except that solid white or red setter color are not desirable colors). \\u00a0A nice showily marked dog is preferred.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Size:\\u00a0<\\/span>\\u00a0Dogs 22 inches to 24 inches at the shoulder, Bitches 20 to 22 inches.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Weight:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Dogs 45 lb.\\u00a0to 65 lb., Bitches 40 lb.\\u00a0to 55 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">EVALUATION\\u00a0<\\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: bold;\\\">Faults:<\\/span>\\u00a0\\u00a0Domed skull, a disproportionately large head which may be too wide or too heavy with too pronounced or too exaggerated a stop, high peaked occipital bone, heavy, pendulous or prick ears, weak jaws, narrow muzzle, full soft, staring, or light eyes, crooked legs, large flat or hare feet, curly or soft coat, 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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Skull flat, moderately wide between the ears and gradually tapering to the eyes. There should be a very slight elevation of the eyebrows and very little stop.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Muzzle:<\\/strong>\\u00a0of fair length, tapering to the nose, which, whatever the colour of the dog, should be black. The teeth which are white and of goof size, should not be over nor undershot. Both are faults, the latter the greater of the two.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Eyes:<\\/strong>\\u00a0of fair size, but not prominent, are placed rather closed together and set obliquely in the head, which gives that cunning foxy expression so characteristic of the breed. Colour any shade of brown, the darker the better, yellow eyes being a great fault. Dogs of mirled colour should have a mirled or china eye and sometimes both eyes are of this colour.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Ears:<\\/strong>\\u00a0small, placed rather close together at the of the head, covered with short soft hair and carried semi-erect when in attention; at other times thrown back and buried in the frill.<br \\/><strong>Neck:<\\/strong>\\u00a0long, arched, muscular.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Body:<\\/strong>\\u00a0rather long than short, ribs well rounded, chest deep and narrow in front, but of fair breadth behind the shoulders, which should be oblique. Loin rather long and slightly arched, showing power.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Legs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Forelegs straight and muscular, with a fair amount of flat bone, the forearm moderately fleshy, the hindlegs less fleshy, very sinewy and hocks well bent. Pasterns long and light in bone. Feet oval in shape, the soles well padded, and toes well arched and close.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Tail:<\\/strong>\\u00a0moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, gaily when excited and almost straight out when running.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Coat:<\\/strong>\\u00a0This is a very important point. The coat, except on the head and legs, should be abundant, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner coat soft and furry, and very close, so close, that it is difficult on parting the hair to see the skin. The hair very abundant round the neck and chest; this is termed the frill. The mask is smooth, the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs below the hocks smooth. Hair on tail very profuse, and on the hips long and bushy.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Colour:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Any colour.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Size:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 21 in. to 24 in. at shoulder, Bitches 2 in. less.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Weight:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 45 lb to 60 lb, Bitches 40 lb to 50 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>General Appearance:<\\/strong>\\u00a0A lithe active dog, with no useless timber about him, his deep chest showing strength, his sloping shoulders, and well bent hocks speed. His \\u201cbawsint\\u201d face high intelligence. The face should bear a sharp, doubtful expression. As a whole, he should present an elegant and pleasing outline, quite distinct from any of our other domesticated breeds, and show great strength and activity. Faults: Domed skull, high peaked occipital bone, heavy pendulous ears, full soft eyes, heavily feathered legs, short tail.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>SCALE OF POINTS<\\/strong><br \\/>Head............................................15<br \\/>Eyes...............................................5<br \\/>Ears..............................................10<br \\/>Neck and Shoulders.....................15<br \\/>Body............................................10<br \\/>Legs and Feet...............................15<br \\/>Tail................................................5<br \\/>Coat.............................................20<br \\/>Size &amp; General Appearance..........10<br \\/>GRAND TOTAL......................100<br \\/><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #3387a2;\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY\'S STANDARD \\u2013\\u00a02016<\\/span><\\/a><br \\/><strong><a style=\\\"color: inherit; 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margin-left: auto; color: #000000; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: center; font-family: \'Crimson Text\' !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: xx-large;\\\">The Scottish Collie Club\\u2019s Standard \\u2013 1885<\\/span><\\/h2><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: #626262 !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large;\\\"><strong>ROUGH COATED<\\/strong><\\/span><br \\/><strong>Head:<\\/strong>\\u00a0moderately long in proportion to the dogs\\u00b4 size, covered with short, soft hair. Skull flat, moderately wide between the ears and gradually tapering to the eyes. There should be a very slight elevation of the eyebrows and very little stop.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Muzzle:<\\/strong>\\u00a0of fair length, tapering to the nose, which, whatever the colour of the dog, should be black. The teeth which are white and of goof size, should not be over nor undershot. Both are faults, the latter the greater of the two.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Eyes:<\\/strong>\\u00a0of fair size, but not prominent, are placed rather closed together and set obliquely in the head, which gives that cunning foxy expression so characteristic of the breed. Colour any shade of brown, the darker the better, yellow eyes being a great fault. Dogs of mirled colour should have a mirled or china eye and sometimes both eyes are of this colour.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Ears:<\\/strong>\\u00a0small, placed rather close together at the of the head, covered with short soft hair and carried semi-erect when in attention; at other times thrown back and buried in the frill.<br \\/><strong>Neck:<\\/strong>\\u00a0long, arched, muscular.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Body:<\\/strong>\\u00a0rather long than short, ribs well rounded, chest deep and narrow in front, but of fair breadth behind the shoulders, which should be oblique. Loin rather long and slightly arched, showing power.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Legs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Forelegs straight and muscular, with a fair amount of flat bone, the forearm moderately fleshy, the hindlegs less fleshy, very sinewy and hocks well bent. Pasterns long and light in bone. Feet oval in shape, the soles well padded, and toes well arched and close.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Tail:<\\/strong>\\u00a0moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, gaily when excited and almost straight out when running.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Coat:<\\/strong>\\u00a0This is a very important point. The coat, except on the head and legs, should be abundant, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner coat soft and furry, and very close, so close, that it is difficult on parting the hair to see the skin. The hair very abundant round the neck and chest; this is termed the frill. The mask is smooth, the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs below the hocks smooth. Hair on tail very profuse, and on the hips long and bushy.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Colour:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Any colour.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Size:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 21 in. to 24 in. at shoulder, Bitches 2 in. less.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Weight:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 45 lb to 60 lb, Bitches 40 lb to 50 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>General Appearance:<\\/strong>\\u00a0A lithe active dog, with no useless timber about him, his deep chest showing strength, his sloping shoulders, and well bent hocks speed. His \\u201cbawsint\\u201d face high intelligence. The face should bear a sharp, doubtful expression. As a whole, he should present an elegant and pleasing outline, quite distinct from any of our other domesticated breeds, and show great strength and activity. Faults: Domed skull, high peaked occipital bone, heavy pendulous ears, full soft eyes, heavily feathered legs, short tail.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>SCALE OF POINTS<\\/strong><br \\/>Head............................................15<br \\/>Eyes...............................................5<br \\/>Ears..............................................10<br \\/>Neck and Shoulders.....................15<br \\/>Body............................................10<br \\/>Legs and Feet...............................15<br \\/>Tail................................................5<br \\/>Coat.............................................20<br \\/>Size &amp; General Appearance..........10<br \\/>GRAND TOTAL......................100<br \\/><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #3387a2;\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY\'S STANDARD \\u2013\\u00a02016<\\/span><\\/a><br \\/><strong><a style=\\\"color: inherit; 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Skull flat, moderately wide between the ears and gradually tapering to the eyes. There should be a very slight elevation of the eyebrows and very little stop.<br><br><strong>Muzzle:<\\/strong>&nbsp;of fair length, tapering to the nose, which, whatever the colour of the dog, should be black. The teeth which are white and of goof size, should not be over nor undershot. Both are faults, the latter the greater of the two.<br><br><strong>Eyes:<\\/strong>&nbsp;of fair size, but not prominent, are placed rather closed together and set obliquely in the head, which gives that cunning foxy expression so characteristic of the breed. Colour any shade of brown, the darker the better, yellow eyes being a great fault. Dogs of mirled colour should have a mirled or china eye and sometimes both eyes are of this colour.<br><br><strong>Ears:<\\/strong>&nbsp;small, placed rather close together at the of the head, covered with short soft hair and carried semi-erect when in attention; at other times thrown back and buried in the frill.<br><strong>Neck:<\\/strong>&nbsp;long, arched, muscular.<br><br><strong>Body:<\\/strong>&nbsp;rather long than short, ribs well rounded, chest deep and narrow in front, but of fair breadth behind the shoulders, which should be oblique. Loin rather long and slightly arched, showing power.<br><br><strong>Legs:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Forelegs straight and muscular, with a fair amount of flat bone, the forearm moderately fleshy, the hindlegs less fleshy, very sinewy and hocks well bent. Pasterns long and light in bone. Feet oval in shape, the soles well padded, and toes well arched and close.<br><br><strong>Tail:<\\/strong>&nbsp;moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, gaily when excited and almost straight out when running.<br><br><strong>Coat:<\\/strong>&nbsp;This is a very important point. The coat, except on the head and legs, should be abundant, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner coat soft and furry, and very close, so close, that it is difficult on parting the hair to see the skin. The hair very abundant round the neck and chest; this is termed the frill. The mask is smooth, the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs below the hocks smooth. Hair on tail very profuse, and on the hips long and bushy.<br><br><strong>Colour:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Any colour.<br><br><strong>Size:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Dogs 21 in. to 24 in. at shoulder, Bitches 2 in. less.<br><br><strong>Weight:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Dogs 45 lb to 60 lb, Bitches 40 lb to 50 lb.<br><br><strong>General Appearance:<\\/strong>&nbsp;A lithe active dog, with no useless timber about him, his deep chest showing strength, his sloping shoulders, and well bent hocks speed. His \\u201cbawsint\\u201d face high intelligence. The face should bear a sharp, doubtful expression. As a whole, he should present an elegant and pleasing outline, quite distinct from any of our other domesticated breeds, and show great strength and activity. Faults: Domed skull, high peaked occipital bone, heavy pendulous ears, full soft eyes, heavily feathered legs, short tail.<br><br><strong>SCALE OF POINTS<\\/strong><br>Head............................................15<br>Eyes...............................................5<br>Ears..............................................10<br>Neck and Shoulders.....................15<br>Body............................................10<br>Legs and Feet...............................15<br>Tail................................................5<br>Coat.............................................20<br>Size &amp; General Appearance..........10<br>GRAND TOTAL......................100<br><br><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\" style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\"><font 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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Skull flat, moderately wide between the ears and gradually tapering to the eyes. There should be a very slight elevation of the eyebrows and very little stop.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Muzzle:<\\/strong>\\u00a0of fair length, tapering to the nose, which, whatever the colour of the dog, should be black. The teeth which are white and of goof size, should not be over nor undershot. Both are faults, the latter the greater of the two.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Eyes:<\\/strong>\\u00a0of fair size, but not prominent, are placed rather closed together and set obliquely in the head, which gives that cunning foxy expression so characteristic of the breed. Colour any shade of brown, the darker the better, yellow eyes being a great fault. Dogs of mirled colour should have a mirled or china eye and sometimes both eyes are of this colour.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Ears:<\\/strong>\\u00a0small, placed rather close together at the of the head, covered with short soft hair and carried semi-erect when in attention; at other times thrown back and buried in the frill.<br \\/><strong>Neck:<\\/strong>\\u00a0long, arched, muscular.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Body:<\\/strong>\\u00a0rather long than short, ribs well rounded, chest deep and narrow in front, but of fair breadth behind the shoulders, which should be oblique. Loin rather long and slightly arched, showing power.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Legs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Forelegs straight and muscular, with a fair amount of flat bone, the forearm moderately fleshy, the hindlegs less fleshy, very sinewy and hocks well bent. Pasterns long and light in bone. Feet oval in shape, the soles well padded, and toes well arched and close.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Tail:<\\/strong>\\u00a0moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, gaily when excited and almost straight out when running.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Coat:<\\/strong>\\u00a0This is a very important point. The coat, except on the head and legs, should be abundant, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner coat soft and furry, and very close, so close, that it is difficult on parting the hair to see the skin. The hair very abundant round the neck and chest; this is termed the frill. The mask is smooth, the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs below the hocks smooth. Hair on tail very profuse, and on the hips long and bushy.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Colour:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Any colour.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Size:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 21 in. to 24 in. at shoulder, Bitches 2 in. less.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Weight:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 45 lb to 60 lb, Bitches 40 lb to 50 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>General Appearance:<\\/strong>\\u00a0A lithe active dog, with no useless timber about him, his deep chest showing strength, his sloping shoulders, and well bent hocks speed. His \\u201cbawsint\\u201d face high intelligence. The face should bear a sharp, doubtful expression. As a whole, he should present an elegant and pleasing outline, quite distinct from any of our other domesticated breeds, and show great strength and activity. Faults: Domed skull, high peaked occipital bone, heavy pendulous ears, full soft eyes, heavily feathered legs, short tail.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>SCALE OF POINTS<\\/strong><br \\/>Head............................................15<br \\/>Eyes...............................................5<br \\/>Ears..............................................10<br \\/>Neck and Shoulders.....................15<br \\/>Body............................................10<br \\/>Legs and Feet...............................15<br \\/>Tail................................................5<br \\/>Coat.............................................20<br \\/>Size &amp; General Appearance..........10<br \\/>GRAND TOTAL......................100<br \\/><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" 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There should only be a slight depression at the stop. The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. The cheek should not be full or prominent.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The muzzle:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be of fair length, tapering to the nose, and must not show weakness or be snipy or lippy. Whatever the colour may be, the nose must be black. The teeth: should be of good size, sound, and level, very slight unevenness is permissible.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The jaws:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be clean cut and powerful.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The eyes:<\\/strong>\\u00a0are a very important feature and give expression to the dog. They should be of a medium size, set somewhat obliquely, of almond shape and of brown colour except in the case of merles, when the eyes are frequently (one or both) blue and white or china; expression full of intelligence, with a quick alert look when listening.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The ears:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be small and moderately wide at the base; and placed not too close together on top of the skull, nor too much to the side of the head. When in repose they should be usually carried thrown back, but when on the alert brought forward and carried semi-erect, with tips slightly drooping in the attitude of listening.<br \\/>Faults: Length of head apparently out of proportion to the body and of the Borzoi type are to be strongly condemned. Weak, snipy muzzle; overshot mouth; heavy or gooseberry- coloured, also glassy or staring eyes, are very objectionable. Domed skull, high peaked occiput; prominent cheek; dish-faced; or Roman nosed.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The neck:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be muscular, powerful and of fair length, and somewhat arched.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The body:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, chest deep, fairly broad behind the shoulders, which should be sloped, loins slightly arched and powerful. The dog should be straight in front.<br \\/>Faults: Flat-sided, short or cobby.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The forelegs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.<br \\/>Faults<strong>:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Weak long pasterns, out at elbows, crooked forearms.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The hindlegs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy below the hocks, with well bent stifles.<br \\/>Faults: Cow-hocks, straight hocks.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The feet:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be oval in shape, soles well padded, and the toes arched and close together. The hind feet less arched, hocks well let down and powerful.<br \\/>Faults: Large, open, flat, or hare feet; feet turned outwards or inwards.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The brush:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward \\\"swirl\\\" at the end, and may be gaily carried when the dog is excited, and not over the back.<br \\/>Faults: Short tail, or tail carried over the back, or twisted to one side.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The coat:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close as almost hide the skin. The mane and frill should be very abundant, the mask or face smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should be carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs above the hocks profusely so, but below the hocks fairly smooth, although all heavily coated collies are liable to grow a slight feathering. Hair on the brush very profuse.<br \\/>Faults: A soft, silky, or wavy coat, or insufficient undercoat.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Colour &amp; markings:<\\/strong>\\u00a0are immaterial, but other points being equal, a nice showily marked dog is preferred. ALL WHITE OR RED SETTER colour is most objectionable.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>General Character:<\\/strong>\\u00a0To enable the Collie to fulfil his natural bent for Sheepdog work; he should be built on lines of strength, activity, and grace, with a shapely body and sound legs and feet. He should be lithe and active in his movements, and entirely free from cloddiness and coarseness in any parts of his conformation; and, lastly he must be gifted with true expression. Expression is obtained by the perfect combination of head and muzzle, size, shape and colour, and placement of eye, and correct position and carriage of ears, which give the dog that sweet, dreamy, semicunning, yet alert outlook that makes the perfect Collie the most beautiful of the canine race.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Size &amp; weight:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 22 in. to 24 in. at the shoulders, Bitches 20 in. to 22 in. Dogs 45 lb to 65 lb, Bitches 40 lb to 55 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The Smooth Collie<\\/strong>\\u00a0only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense and quite smooth.<br \\/><strong>SCALE OF POINTS<\\/strong><br \\/>Head and Expression..........15<br \\/>Ears....................................10<br \\/>Neck and Shoulders............10<br \\/>Legs and Feet......................15<br \\/>Hindquarters......................10<br \\/>Back and Loins...................10<br \\/>Brush....................................5<br \\/>Coat and Frill.....................20<br \\/>Size.......................................5<br \\/>GRAND TOTAL.............100<\\/span><br \\/><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #3387a2;\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY\'S STANDARD \\u2013\\u00a02016<\\/span><\\/a><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; 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There should be only a slight depression at stop. The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. The cheek should not be full or prominent<br><br><strong>The muzzle:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be of fair length tapering to the nose, and must not show weakness or be snipy or lippy. Whatever the colour may be, the nose must be black.<br><br><strong>The teeth:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be of good size, sound and level, very slight unevenness is permissible.<br><br><strong>The jaws:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be clean cut and powerful.<br><br><strong>The eyes:<\\/strong>&nbsp;are a very important feature and give expression to the dog; they should be of a medium size, set somewhat obliquely, of almond shape and of brown colour except in the case of \\\"merles\\\", when the eyes are frequently (one or both) blue and white or china; expression full of intelligence, with a quick alert look when listening.<br><br><strong>The ears:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be small and moderately wide at the base; and placed not too close together on top of the skull, nor too much to the side of the head. When in repose they should be usually carried thrown back, but when on the alert brought forward and carried semi-erect, with tip slightly drooping in the attitude of listening.<br><br><strong>The neck:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be muscular, powerful and of fair length, and somewhat arched.<br><br><strong>The body:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, chest deep, fairly broad behind the shoulders, which should be sloping, loins slightly arched and powerful. The dog should be straight in front.<br><br><strong>The forelegs:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.<br><br><strong>The hindlegs:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy below the hocks, with well bent stifles.<br><br><strong>The feet:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be oval in shape, soles well padded, and the toes arched and close together. The hind feet less arched, hocks well let down and powerful.<br><br><strong>The brush:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward \\\"swirl\\\" at the end, and may be gaily carried when the dog is excited, but not over the back.<br><br><strong>The coat:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close as almost hide the skin. The mane and frill should be very abundant, the mask or face smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should be carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs above the hocks profusely so, but below the hocks fairly smooth, although all heavily coated collies are liable to grow a slight feathering. Hair on the brush very profuse.<br><br><strong>Colour:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Immaterial.<br><br><strong>General Character:<\\/strong>&nbsp;A lithe active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be fair length on the leg, giving him more of racy than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence, with free and true action.<br><br><strong>Size &amp; weight:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Dogs 22in. to 24in. at the shoulders, Bitches 20in. to 22in. Dogs 4 lb to 65lb, Bitches 40lb to 55lb.<br><br><strong>The Smooth Collie<\\/strong>&nbsp;only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense and quite smooth.<br><br><strong>Faults:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Domed skull, high peaked occipital bone, heavy, pendulous or prick ears, weak jaws, snipy muzzle, full staring or light eyes, crooked legs, large flat or hare feet, curly or soft coat, cow hocks, and brush twisted or carried right over the back, under or overshot mouth.<\\/font><br><br><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\" style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\"><font color=\\\"#3387a2\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY\'S STANDARD \\u2013&nbsp;2016<\\/font><\\/a><br><a 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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It is important to remember, however, that the Scottish rough coated Collie was carefully bred for the job of herding sheep in the rugged and daunting terrain of the Scottish Highlands long before the first Scottish Collie Standards were written. Sheep or cattle were, and still are, the only possible agricultural use for this beautiful, but wild and inhospitable, mountainous land. Even today, in the remotest areas, there are no roads, just tracks which cross through the middle of the Highlands. Much of the land is inaccessible by motorized vehicles.<\\/div><div style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;\\\"><div class=\\\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-medium wsite-image-border-black\\\" style=\\\"position: relative; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: center; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 4px !important;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/edited\\/cloudsoverquiraingbyluisascenso.jpg?1558180644\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin-bottom: 10px; width: auto; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; padding: 3px !important; margin-left: -4px !important; margin-right: -4px !important;\\\"><\\/a><div style=\\\"font-size: 14.4px;\\\">Picture credit: \\\"Clouds over Quiraing\\\" by Luis Ascenso. (CC 2.0)<\\/div><\\/div><\\/div><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: justify; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><strong><font size=\\\"5\\\"><font color=\\\"#2a2a2a\\\">A Scottish Highland Scene<\\/font><br><\\/font><\\/strong>The weather is a further challenge. Even in the warmest months, Scotland\\u2019s Highlands can rarely ever be considered very warm by any standards. In winter, they can be daunting indeed, with storms and gales blowing in from the North Sea. Scotland is surrounded by seas on three sides:&nbsp;East, West, and North coasts. The storms which do blow in are a constant hazard to people tending sheep in the remote areas. The weather is quite unpredictable and changes very fast. You can be sure, that if it isn\\u2019t actually raining, or sleeting, or snowing, during the colder months, before many hours have passed it will be. Weather systems are fast moving, because nowhere in Northern Scotland are you more than sixty or seventy miles from the sea.<br><br>A good collie dog became a necessity to manage the large flocks of sheep grazing on unfenced land, and wandering over wide ranges in search of grazing. Just as a good shepherd knows his sheep, and they in turn know and trust him,&nbsp;so, too, does the working Collie know his own sheep, and they him. Sheep could become lost and buried in snow, especially when lambing in the early spring. A good Collie could track and find these lost sheep separated from the main flock. The Collie\\u2019s sense of direction is legendary, and is described in many fictional stories, like&nbsp;Lassie Come Home&nbsp;by Eric Knight. These stories were, in fact, based on many enduring and true accounts of the Collie\\u2019s remarkable homing instincts, and ability to find the way home, even through new terrain. The Collie, over many hundreds of years, has carried the bred-in ability to track and find lost sheep, then return them home to farm or shepherd\\u2019s croft, often completely independently.<br><br>There are stories recorded of Collies who helped their Masters by driving their sheep south to market in London; then when tired of waiting at the pub doors for the Master to return, just decided to go home on their own. &nbsp;These brave Collies travelled the whole length of England to reach their home farms and the work which they knew was waiting for them. (from History of the Rough Collie - an article by Hazel Hunt)<br><br>Theories abound as to the origin of the Scottish Collie breed. However, it is generally accepted that the Scottish Collie traces back to 4000 BC, to dogs owned by the Celts and used for herding. The Celts controlled and inhabited Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of England from 4000 BC until 43 AD. At this time the Roman conquerors arrived and so began the Roman Occupation of Northern England and the more southerly parts of Scotland. The Romans brought with them their own herding dogs which were then interbred with the Celtic dogs. In 410 AD the Romans left, but their dogs\\u2019 genetic influence remained. Next came the Anglo Saxon invaders from northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, with their European herding dogs which again added to the development of what would eventually be called the Scottish Collie. In 793 AD the Vikings arrived, bringing from Norway their own Herding Spitz dogs. During the long period of Viking influence, the Norwegian Spitz Herding Dog contributed to the genetic mix of other European herding strains and all were added to the local Celtic working dog. This diverse genetic combination added to the local Celtic Collie dogs, eventually produced the Scottish Collie, both Rough and Smooth.<br><br>In the period between 1066, when the Normans conquered Britain, up until approximately 800 years later, there were no further infusions of foreign herding breeds. &nbsp;The herding dogs were, however, definitely improved through selective breeding. The careful selection for breeding of good working dogs resulted in an unequalled herding dog, useful not only to the Scots, but to those in the northern part of England and Ireland as well. This Collie dog from the Highlands became the root breed for all of the other herding breeds which developed in the UK, and later spread around the world.<br>The Collie is essentially the dog it is because for thousands of years it performed sheepdog work in a specific and unique way which is characteristic of these Highland Scottish Collies alone. This very essence of a Collie, and its unique way of working is something that cannot be lost, or bred out, or forgotten, or erased from its gene pool. It had to be so, because of the very particular environment where the Collies\\u2019 work was performed \\u2013 the Scottish Highlands. It should never be forgotten that the Collie was developed in the Highlands, because all the rest comes out of that.&nbsp;<br>During the time before dog shows existed, before the Standard was written on paper,&nbsp;sheep were the most important and most numerous animals in the British Isles. Life centered around the raising of sheep; but working such large flocks of sheep was not possible without dogs. Small wonder so many varied types of British sheepdog breeds developed as these Collies of all types were used for many different purposes throughout Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland, serving the varied demands of the quite different environments.<br><br>The Celtic word&nbsp;\\\"Collie\\\"&nbsp;means useful. Iris Combe in her book,&nbsp;Rough Collie Records,&nbsp;refers to the Collie as \\u201cthe useful dog that circled the small settlements to guard the flocks and herds.\\u201d<\\/div><h2 class=\\\"wsite-content-title\\\" style=\\\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: &quot;Crimson Text&quot; !important; font-size: 31px !important;\\\"><strong style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><font size=\\\"6\\\">Collie\'s adaptations were bred in over the centuries.<\\/font><\\/strong><\\/h2><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: right; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: right; max-width: 100%; clear: right;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/download-1.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\"><\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Highlands, though beautiful, can also be both bleak and lonely. The main threat for shepherds and their flocks was the weather, at a time when no weather forecasts were available by either radio or television. Many remote places in both northern England and Scotland still have no electricity, or reception for radio, television, or cell phone. During spring, and even very occasionally during the summer, the weather in the Highlands can shift extremely fast from a bright sunny day to snowstorms, blizzards, and freezing temperatures due to exposure to the North Sea and cold, strong Arctic winds.<br><br>Flocks grazing in the Highlands are vulnerable to these rapid weather changes, especially during the lambing season. During a storm, a panicked flock can run themselves into real danger in rugged terrain where dangers abound. Collies were there to prevent this happening. Many adaptations were bred into the Collie over the long history of its existence to make it the very best possible dog for this daunting work of herding in the Highlands.<\\/span><br><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collies\\u2019 ears, which are semi-erect and shell shaped, could catch sounds in the most efficient manner. These wonderful tipped ears allowed them to hear; the sound of wind coming from high hills and mountain slopes long before it actually swept the ground, the bleat of a lost sheep or lamb, even in a storm or blizzard, the shouting or whistles of the shepherd giving directions in the storm. Collies are extremely sensitive to sounds, and their hearing is better than most dogs. They don\\u2019t like loud noises, loud singing, or fireworks, or thunder. Collies still often feel very uncomfortable with the noise of strong wind blowing, and not without reason. Wind is a danger, and their senses are warned. This sensitivity was bred into Collies for a purpose. Good hearing made it possible to act in time gathering the flock, keeping them together and then bringing them home to safety and shelter.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Collie coat, waterproof and warm, was designed to protect against the rain, sleet, snow and blizzard conditions. The outer hair is coarse on the top, but woolly and thick underneath. Collie coat colour, and markings also served a valid purpose being more easily seen by the shepherd and by the sheep in bad weather conditions, or in the dark. &nbsp;The Collie eye was also used to good advantage. Stories abound of collies, who turned away a stubborn ram towards the safer route. So powerful, must be the eye of a Collie, and his sense of presence, and dignity, and air of command. Even the lovely Collie tail, or brush, serves several useful purposes. It is designed to preserve his balance in quick turns, while moving sheep in the desired direction. Even the white spot on the tail tip is there to shine in the darkest night like a lighthouse making the dog visible to both shepherd and sheep. Lastly the tail, when curled round a Collie sleeping in freezing conditions, adds warmth, as it covers legs, feet and nose.<\\/span><\\/div><hr style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 242, 204); width: 1286px; visibility: hidden;\\\"><p><span class=\\\"imgPusher\\\" style=\\\"display: block; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; float: left; height: 0px;\\\"><\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; display: table; width: auto; position: relative; float: left; max-width: 100%; clear: left;\\\"><a style=\\\"color: inherit;\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/uploads\\/1\\/1\\/9\\/9\\/119920223\\/editor\\/18945113-1581539411891435-1719212848-n.jpg?250\\\" alt=\\\"Picture\\\" class=\\\"galleryImageBorderBlack wsite-image\\\" style=\\\"border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 3px;\\\"><\\/a><span class=\\\"wsite-caption\\\" style=\\\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 14.4px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\\\">Strathyre\'s Titus-Angus owned by Denise Maher<\\/span><\\/span><\\/p><div class=\\\"paragraph\\\" style=\\\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: auto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.75; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Lato !important; color: rgb(98, 98, 98) !important;\\\"><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">&nbsp;Imagine the ground collies had to cover daily while looking after their sheep over rocky and steep countryside. There were, and still are, really no fenced pastures in the Highlands. It was necessary to stay with your flock while they were grazing. Such work requires a very skilled, nimble mover, not too heavy to be able to cover such ground, safely and yet with stamina for great distances and long hours of work.<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">The Scottish Collie Preservation Society Standard is an amalgamation of the earliest Scottish Collie Standards. Under General Character it calls for:<br><br>\\\"A lithe, active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and&nbsp;<\\/span><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be of fair length on the leg, giving him more of a racy, than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence with free and true action.\\\"<\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\"><\\/span><br><span style=\\\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37);\\\">There are serious consequences to ignoring the genuine purpose for which the Collie was created. Although the Collie makes a wonderful companion dog, a loving minder of children, and is beautiful; to forget its long history and important role as a working sheepdog will not assist us in our efforts to restore the good health, intelligence, character, temperament and popularity of this remarkable breed, one of the oldest and noblest of all dog breeds.&nbsp;The Collie still should have the form and characteristics which fit his function as a working sheepdog. 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There should only be a slight depression at the stop. The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. The cheek should not be full or prominent.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The muzzle:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be of fair length, tapering to the nose, and must not show weakness or be snipy or lippy. Whatever the colour may be, the nose must be black. The teeth: should be of good size, sound, and level, very slight unevenness is permissible.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The jaws:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be clean cut and powerful.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The eyes:<\\/strong>\\u00a0are a very important feature and give expression to the dog. They should be of a medium size, set somewhat obliquely, of almond shape and of brown colour except in the case of merles, when the eyes are frequently (one or both) blue and white or china; expression full of intelligence, with a quick alert look when listening.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The ears:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be small and moderately wide at the base; and placed not too close together on top of the skull, nor too much to the side of the head. When in repose they should be usually carried thrown back, but when on the alert brought forward and carried semi-erect, with tips slightly drooping in the attitude of listening.<br \\/>Faults: Length of head apparently out of proportion to the body and of the Borzoi type are to be strongly condemned. Weak, snipy muzzle; overshot mouth; heavy or gooseberry- coloured, also glassy or staring eyes, are very objectionable. Domed skull, high peaked occiput; prominent cheek; dish-faced; or Roman nosed.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The neck:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be muscular, powerful and of fair length, and somewhat arched.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The body:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, chest deep, fairly broad behind the shoulders, which should be sloped, loins slightly arched and powerful. The dog should be straight in front.<br \\/>Faults: Flat-sided, short or cobby.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The forelegs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.<br \\/>Faults<strong>:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Weak long pasterns, out at elbows, crooked forearms.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The hindlegs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy below the hocks, with well bent stifles.<br \\/>Faults: Cow-hocks, straight hocks.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The feet:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be oval in shape, soles well padded, and the toes arched and close together. The hind feet less arched, hocks well let down and powerful.<br \\/>Faults: Large, open, flat, or hare feet; feet turned outwards or inwards.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The brush:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward \\\"swirl\\\" at the end, and may be gaily carried when the dog is excited, and not over the back.<br \\/>Faults: Short tail, or tail carried over the back, or twisted to one side.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The coat:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close as almost hide the skin. The mane and frill should be very abundant, the mask or face smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should be carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs above the hocks profusely so, but below the hocks fairly smooth, although all heavily coated collies are liable to grow a slight feathering. Hair on the brush very profuse.<br \\/>Faults: A soft, silky, or wavy coat, or insufficient undercoat.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Colour &amp; markings:<\\/strong>\\u00a0are immaterial, but other points being equal, a nice showily marked dog is preferred. ALL WHITE OR RED SETTER colour is most objectionable.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>General Character:<\\/strong>\\u00a0To enable the Collie to fulfil his natural bent for Sheepdog work; he should be built on lines of strength, activity, and grace, with a shapely body and sound legs and feet. He should be lithe and active in his movements, and entirely free from cloddiness and coarseness in any parts of his conformation; and, lastly he must be gifted with true expression. Expression is obtained by the perfect combination of head and muzzle, size, shape and colour, and placement of eye, and correct position and carriage of ears, which give the dog that sweet, dreamy, semicunning, yet alert outlook that makes the perfect Collie the most beautiful of the canine race.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Size &amp; weight:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 22 in. to 24 in. at the shoulders, Bitches 20 in. to 22 in. Dogs 45 lb to 65 lb, Bitches 40 lb to 55 lb.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The Smooth Collie<\\/strong>\\u00a0only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense and quite smooth.<br \\/><strong>SCALE OF POINTS<\\/strong><br \\/>Head and Expression..........15<br \\/>Ears....................................10<br \\/>Neck and Shoulders............10<br \\/>Legs and Feet......................15<br \\/>Hindquarters......................10<br \\/>Back and Loins...................10<br \\/>Brush....................................5<br \\/>Coat and Frill.....................20<br \\/>Size.......................................5<br \\/>GRAND TOTAL.............100<\\/span><br \\/><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\" href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\"><span style=\\\"color: #3387a2;\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY\'S STANDARD \\u2013\\u00a02016<\\/span><\\/a><br \\/><a style=\\\"color: inherit; 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There should only be a slight depression at the stop. The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. The cheek should not be full or prominent.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The muzzle:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be of fair length, tapering to the nose, and must not show weakness or be snipy or lippy. Whatever the colour may be, the nose must be black. The teeth: should be of good size, sound, and level, very slight unevenness is permissible.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The jaws:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be clean cut and powerful.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The eyes:<\\/strong>\\u00a0are a very important feature and give expression to the dog. They should be of a medium size, set somewhat obliquely, of almond shape and of brown colour except in the case of merles, when the eyes are frequently (one or both) blue and white or china; expression full of intelligence, with a quick alert look when listening.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The ears:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be small and moderately wide at the base; and placed not too close together on top of the skull, nor too much to the side of the head. When in repose they should be usually carried thrown back, but when on the alert brought forward and carried semi-erect, with tips slightly drooping in the attitude of listening.<br \\/>Faults: Length of head apparently out of proportion to the body and of the Borzoi type are to be strongly condemned. Weak, snipy muzzle; overshot mouth; heavy or gooseberry- coloured, also glassy or staring eyes, are very objectionable. Domed skull, high peaked occiput; prominent cheek; dish-faced; or Roman nosed.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The neck:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be muscular, powerful and of fair length, and somewhat arched.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The body:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, chest deep, fairly broad behind the shoulders, which should be sloped, loins slightly arched and powerful. The dog should be straight in front.<br \\/>Faults: Flat-sided, short or cobby.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The forelegs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.<br \\/>Faults<strong>:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Weak long pasterns, out at elbows, crooked forearms.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The hindlegs:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy below the hocks, with well bent stifles.<br \\/>Faults: Cow-hocks, straight hocks.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The feet:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be oval in shape, soles well padded, and the toes arched and close together. The hind feet less arched, hocks well let down and powerful.<br \\/>Faults: Large, open, flat, or hare feet; feet turned outwards or inwards.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The brush:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward \\\"swirl\\\" at the end, and may be gaily carried when the dog is excited, and not over the back.<br \\/>Faults: Short tail, or tail carried over the back, or twisted to one side.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>The coat:<\\/strong>\\u00a0should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close as almost hide the skin. The mane and frill should be very abundant, the mask or face smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should be carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs above the hocks profusely so, but below the hocks fairly smooth, although all heavily coated collies are liable to grow a slight feathering. Hair on the brush very profuse.<br \\/>Faults: A soft, silky, or wavy coat, or insufficient undercoat.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Colour &amp; markings:<\\/strong>\\u00a0are immaterial, but other points being equal, a nice showily marked dog is preferred. ALL WHITE OR RED SETTER colour is most objectionable.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>General Character:<\\/strong>\\u00a0To enable the Collie to fulfil his natural bent for Sheepdog work; he should be built on lines of strength, activity, and grace, with a shapely body and sound legs and feet. He should be lithe and active in his movements, and entirely free from cloddiness and coarseness in any parts of his conformation; and, lastly he must be gifted with true expression. Expression is obtained by the perfect combination of head and muzzle, size, shape and colour, and placement of eye, and correct position and carriage of ears, which give the dog that sweet, dreamy, semicunning, yet alert outlook that makes the perfect Collie the most beautiful of the canine race.<br \\/><br \\/><strong>Size &amp; weight:<\\/strong>\\u00a0Dogs 22 in. to 24 in. at the shoulders, Bitches 20 in. to 22 in. 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The hind feet less arched, hocks well let down and powerful.<br><br><strong>The brush:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward \\\"swirl\\\" at the end, and may be gaily carried when the dog is excited, but not over the back.<br><br><strong>The coat:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close as almost hide the skin. The mane and frill should be very abundant, the mask or face smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should be carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs above the hocks profusely so, but below the hocks fairly smooth, although all heavily coated collies are liable to grow a slight feathering. Hair on the brush very profuse.<br><br><strong>Colour:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Immaterial.<br><br><strong>General Character:<\\/strong>&nbsp;A lithe active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be fair length on the leg, giving him more of racy than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence, with free and true action.<br><br><strong>Size &amp; weight:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Dogs 22in. to 24in. at the shoulders, Bitches 20in. to 22in. Dogs 4 lb to 65lb, Bitches 40lb to 55lb.<br><br><strong>The Smooth Collie<\\/strong>&nbsp;only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense and quite smooth.<br><br><strong>Faults:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Domed skull, high peaked occipital bone, heavy, pendulous or prick ears, weak jaws, snipy muzzle, full staring or light eyes, crooked legs, large flat or hare feet, curly or soft coat, cow hocks, and brush twisted or carried right over the back, under or overshot mouth.<\\/font><br><br><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\" style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\"><font color=\\\"#3387a2\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY\'S STANDARD \\u2013&nbsp;2016<\\/font><\\/a><br><a 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There should be only a slight depression at stop. The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. The cheek should not be full or prominent<br><br><strong>The muzzle:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be of fair length tapering to the nose, and must not show weakness or be snipy or lippy. Whatever the colour may be, the nose must be black.<br><br><strong>The teeth:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be of good size, sound and level, very slight unevenness is permissible.<br><br><strong>The jaws:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be clean cut and powerful.<br><br><strong>The eyes:<\\/strong>&nbsp;are a very important feature and give expression to the dog; they should be of a medium size, set somewhat obliquely, of almond shape and of brown colour except in the case of \\\"merles\\\", when the eyes are frequently (one or both) blue and white or china; expression full of intelligence, with a quick alert look when listening.<br><br><strong>The ears:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be small and moderately wide at the base; and placed not too close together on top of the skull, nor too much to the side of the head. When in repose they should be usually carried thrown back, but when on the alert brought forward and carried semi-erect, with tip slightly drooping in the attitude of listening.<br><br><strong>The neck:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be muscular, powerful and of fair length, and somewhat arched.<br><br><strong>The body:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, chest deep, fairly broad behind the shoulders, which should be sloping, loins slightly arched and powerful. The dog should be straight in front.<br><br><strong>The forelegs:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.<br><br><strong>The hindlegs:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy below the hocks, with well bent stifles.<br><br><strong>The feet:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be oval in shape, soles well padded, and the toes arched and close together. The hind feet less arched, hocks well let down and powerful.<br><br><strong>The brush:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward \\\"swirl\\\" at the end, and may be gaily carried when the dog is excited, but not over the back.<br><br><strong>The coat:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close as almost hide the skin. The mane and frill should be very abundant, the mask or face smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should be carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs above the hocks profusely so, but below the hocks fairly smooth, although all heavily coated collies are liable to grow a slight feathering. Hair on the brush very profuse.<br><br><strong>Colour:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Immaterial.<br><br><strong>General Character:<\\/strong>&nbsp;A lithe active dog, his deep chest showing lung power, his neck strength, his sloping shoulders and well bent hocks indicating speed, and his expression high intelligence. He should be fair length on the leg, giving him more of racy than cloddy appearance. In a few words a Collie should show endurance, activity and intelligence, with free and true action.<br><br><strong>Size &amp; weight:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Dogs 22in. to 24in. at the shoulders, Bitches 20in. to 22in. Dogs 4 lb to 65lb, Bitches 40lb to 55lb.<br><br><strong>The Smooth Collie<\\/strong>&nbsp;only differs from the Rough in its coat, which should be hard, dense and quite smooth.<br><br><strong>Faults:<\\/strong>&nbsp;Domed skull, high peaked occipital bone, heavy, pendulous or prick ears, weak jaws, snipy muzzle, full staring or light eyes, crooked legs, large flat or hare feet, curly or soft coat, cow hocks, and brush twisted or carried right over the back, under or overshot mouth.<\\/font><br><br><a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.scottishcolliepreservationsociety.com\\/scps-breed-standard-2016.html\\\" style=\\\"color: inherit; opacity: 0.7; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); transition-duration: 200ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; transition-property: opacity;\\\"><font color=\\\"#3387a2\\\">THE SCOTTISH COLLIE PRESERVATION SOCIETY\'S STANDARD \\u2013&nbsp;2016<\\/font><\\/a><br><a 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There should be only a slight depression at stop. The width of skull necessarily depends upon the combined length of skull and muzzle, and the whole must be considered in connection with the size of the dog. The cheek should not be full or prominent<br><br><strong>The muzzle:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be of fair length tapering to the nose, and must not show weakness or be snipy or lippy. Whatever the colour may be, the nose must be black.<br><br><strong>The teeth:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be of good size, sound and level, very slight unevenness is permissible.<br><br><strong>The jaws:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be clean cut and powerful.<br><br><strong>The eyes:<\\/strong>&nbsp;are a very important feature and give expression to the dog; they should be of a medium size, set somewhat obliquely, of almond shape and of brown colour except in the case of \\\"merles\\\", when the eyes are frequently (one or both) blue and white or china; expression full of intelligence, with a quick alert look when listening.<br><br><strong>The ears:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be small and moderately wide at the base; and placed not too close together on top of the skull, nor too much to the side of the head. When in repose they should be usually carried thrown back, but when on the alert brought forward and carried semi-erect, with tip slightly drooping in the attitude of listening.<br><br><strong>The neck:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be muscular, powerful and of fair length, and somewhat arched.<br><br><strong>The body:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be rather long, with well sprung ribs, chest deep, fairly broad behind the shoulders, which should be sloping, loins slightly arched and powerful. The dog should be straight in front.<br><br><strong>The forelegs:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be straight and muscular, neither in nor out at elbows, with a fair amount of bone; the forearm somewhat fleshy, the pasterns showing flexibility without weakness.<br><br><strong>The hindlegs:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be muscular at the thighs, clean and sinewy below the hocks, with well bent stifles.<br><br><strong>The feet:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be oval in shape, soles well padded, and the toes arched and close together. The hind feet less arched, hocks well let down and powerful.<br><br><strong>The brush:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be moderately long, carried low when the dog is quiet, with a slight upward \\\"swirl\\\" at the end, and may be gaily carried when the dog is excited, but not over the back.<br><br><strong>The coat:<\\/strong>&nbsp;should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close as almost hide the skin. The mane and frill should be very abundant, the mask or face smooth, as also the ears at the tips, but they should be carry more hair towards the base; the forelegs slightly feathered, the hindlegs above the hocks profusely so, but below the hocks fairly smooth, although all heavily coated collies are liable to grow a slight feathering. 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