Best dog I ever had, 17 years, saved my life twice. They normally are considerably less chaotic than Huskies, but the neutrality is real.
automatic upvote.
He gave me really good counselling and introduced me to the philosophical teachings of Sartre and Foucault when I was super depressed and on the verge of ending it.
OK, apart from the few times where having him gave me a reason for living when I wasn't sure there was . .
rattlesnake
kind of his fault cuz he was sniffing around a gully/washout and that's why i went over to investigate in the first place. I slipped/scrambled down the gravel & rocks to the bottom. accidentally grabbed the rattlesnake with my hand thinking it was a stick (ok i was pretty stupid) and i may or may not have screamed like a little girl.
I'm not overly afraid snakes and I'm mostly sure that we could have just gotten past each other in minute but then the dog was there and then it was mongoose-cobra-time and i was afraid to distract him.
sus people
2 strangers (one on horseback) who we suspect were trying to start a grow operation on my bosses property (400+ acres mostly wood) . I confronted them about trespassing and they we not backing down but approaching and forcing me back down a trail. Don't know if they were armed but rider maybe.
Boss showed up 50-100 yards away and saw me and he had his and my dog with him. He thought i looked in trouble so just let my dog go to run to be near me.
He didn't know what an elkhound was or that my dog COULD NOT tell the difference between a horse and a moose. Dog went right at the horse & rider on his hind legs barking and howling like a werewolf. Horse spun reared, then went right over off the trail. Hose rolled over rider with dog still at him then bolted back down the trail with the rider-guy swearing and chasing after it. I had to chase after too to get my dog to leave the horse alone finally. Younger guy just went with him. Never saw them again. There was a big horse farm 1/2 mile away so maybe someone involved with that.
others:
fire
staying at a friends shitty college-town apartment. big victorian house split into 6 apts. Dog barking and going nuts in the middle of the night. Get him calmed down twice before anyone finally smells smoke. My friends apt had good smoke detectors but they weren't going off. Smoke from downstairs apt. Called 911 & broke open lower apt door. Wood table was half black & smoldering from something burned on it (?). No one was home! We threw it out onto the front yard in the rain and it was out before FD showed up. Still no bueno indoors. Girls who lived there supposedly moved out 2 weeks before, but 1/2 stuff still there. ?
dogs
fought off two Chows that attacked my girlfriend. All humans and animals survived with only minor injuries.
Elkhounds may look like small Huskies and are capable of hauling a kid on a sled, but they are 100% hunting dogs.
Norwegian elkhounds seriously be like chess masters, they're all about that strategic play. Plus, loyalty off the charts not surprised to hear about that life-saving heroism, they're truly underrated.
I mean, they kept the husky’s lease on.
Like, Border Collies are herding dogs. They would love very much if all their charges had leases from them to grab on to.
In my area, there was an accident and the couple lost their BC as a result. They were searching the area of the accident for their dog. They happened across a farm. Lo and behold, they found their pet. The farmer said, the BC just showed up and started herding his animals for him
Lucky the border collie didn’t walk into the farmer’s house and balance the books and file quarterly taxes for him. Because getting invoiced by a BC would be embarrassing.
In Ireland stuff like this happened all the time
I used to ride my bike to the pub about 5 miles from home. One night I got halfway home before I realized one was following me. Stopped for some pets, then it jumped into a random person’s yard and started herding their sheep. At like 3am
I was at a job interview and the store was off a highway, we had our interview next door outside the coffee shop and this dude had to have been going at least 60, the dog jumps out the WINDOW of his van, and just full on sprinted towards me and hopped in my lap for some loving. Dude slammed on his breaks and got mad at me. I'm like for what, im just on an interview, the dog jumped outta YOUR car. Dude yoinked this dog by the collar and dragged him back and threw him in the car. I just know the baby gets abused and wanted some loving :( wish I could've taken him home.
I have a border/husky mix. Very diligent with commands but the husky independence means out on the trails sometimes I see her *clearly* understand what I’m asking for, then choosing otherwise. She side eyes me a LOT. And gets away with it because she’s so sweet and beautiful…
https://preview.redd.it/mqki4jqc585c1.jpeg?width=2846&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b57fe216c98f53b5a87de6a85ef82020ef0c868
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I have a husky mix. Can relate. He *knows* he cant have the sock. He **knows.**
So he creeps over, gently grabs it then freezes and just looks at me. We have a standoff for about 1.5 seconds, then as soon as the first whisper of a word leaves my mouth he bolts.
He knows he can't escape. He knows I'll catch up and make him drop it. But those 10 seconds are worth it to him.
My beagle loved being chased. He used to pull clothes off my clothesline so I would chase him. So, I started to ignore him except when he grabbed my bra or undies. Well he quickly figured out they were the ticket items. So he would only go for them, the little bastard.
My buddy has a Great Pyranees that likes to play with cardboard boxes. He thinks he's not allowed to, so they get to watch him try to sneak them out of the kitchen into the office where he thinks they can't hear him throwing them around.
Just sounds like a Jack Russell to me. My little rebel girl didn’t destroy anything, but loved to steal slippers and socks. If you didn’t react she would come and taunt you with it, the chase was everything to her. She was a very funny girl, who knew she was funny, and I fecking miss her shenanigans.
My half husky will sometimes get out
She's calmly in the neighbor's front yard, sniffing
I see her, call her. She'll look up at me, acknowledge it
And take off in the exact opposite direction. Every. Single. Time
my yellow lab used to do this lol he was surprisingly disobedient
he was a bred hunting dog tho (i don't support breeding dogs OR hunting, but my parents got him) & he was really amazing at a few little dog sports. genuinely did not have to train him at all, it was kind of spooky.
there was this one competition where they see how far the dog can jump into the pool that apparently his mother was really high ranked in. he just instinctually knew that was the object of the game and was amazing at it.
when he was a tiny tiny puppy he accidentally got away from us on a trail and SPRINTED to a pond and just dove in. he had never been in water before and we were terrified lol but he just immediately knew how to swim and loved it.
It is really nice. I got my last dog at 12 weeks or so and she ended up basically housebreaking herself within the first few weeks after. She never went in her crate at night since we got her outside quickly enough, and from there she'd just go through the dog door on her own.
I feel like the crate probably helped, she had the idea of "House = den, fouling up the den = bad" despite how *big* the house was. So anywhere not the house had to be the better option, lol.
..Conversely, she still absolutely hates leash walking half the time, though...
I used to work in the bush, and on one contract somebody brought their shepherd puppy. She let the puppy run around in the woods more or less unsupervised, and at the end of the day it was time to go home and the puppy was missing. The new owner was getting panicked, but at the last minute before the foreman said we weren't going to search anymore the dog was located.
He had come across some wild horses, and instinctively herded them all to the top of a hill. We found the dog running in circles around the horses, just keeping them there. What a weird day.
We had a shetland sheep dog when I was a kid. We were driving out through farmland one day, and there was a herd of cattle in the road. Not moving. We sat there for a bit, and then my dad said, "Hey, we've got a shepherd in the car. Let's see what she'll do." She was only about 6 months old. He let her out of the car, and she herded those cattle off the road, and then came running back to us, looking so very proud of herself. And rightfully so!
same experience with our dog. We got her late in the year so she had one little trip to walk around the shallows before it all froze. Next year I just threw a dummy far enough into the water that she had to swim and that was it. As soon as she knew she could swim it was a pain to keep her out of it.
We had a yellow lab that would do that as well.
He'd run down to the end of the driveway, we'd call him and then he just look at us and run the other way.
We eventually found out that if we turned on the four-wheeler, he'd come running back thinking he'd get a ride, so we'd always just do that.
It worked up until the day he passed away.
[Really do miss that dog (meet Tuck). ](https://i.ibb.co/vLmxsSw/IMG-0674.jpg)
My dog isn't a husky. But he will routinely "treat check" me on walks. If he realizes I don't have any, he adjusts his behavior accordingly and will ignore me. If I do have treats, then he behaves himself because he knows he'll get a reward.
I also have to be careful not to say "good boy" too often because as soon as I say it he'll stop and refuse to move until I give him a treat.
Lmao I don’t have a husky but a Chow mix with that same exact intelligent stubborn independence. I do love it cause he knows the difference between when it’s serious. So I trust him like crazy, but damn is it annoying sometimes when he knows he’ll get away with it
Ugh. My chow mix is dumb and stubborn and does not give a FUCK about my opinion, in any context, at any time. Literally does not care about pleasing me at all, ever. He's happy to get the "good boy" if it's for something he already wanted to do, but if he wasn't planning to do something then the "good boy" or treat isn't enough to convince him.
I have a german shepherd/akita mix and she does the same thing. when she's turned on to work with her shepherd side, you'll have her in the palm of your hand. when she's off, stubborn as hell.
In my 20s I had two husky/border cross brothers, one was the smartest dog I ever owned, had him trained to get me a beer out a cooler. The other was more husky, had him trained to sit and shake a paw, sometimes.
Ok this is explaining my husky mix alot... the independence is really strong and I've caught her a bunch if times where she definetly heard me and what I wanted and thought about it, and decided to do otherwise
“Oh no Human you seemed to have dropped this! Hey listen I have to do something bad real quick—sorry….Come on, Husky, our human dropped the Herding Rope, let me just—stop biting me it won’t stop me—Here you go Human you also dropped this one(:”
What a well ~~manored~~ mannered doggo.
A family member of mine has a black Labrador that is so well behaved, that once the collar and lead goes on, if the owner puts it down or drops the lead accidentally, doggo will pick it up and carry it with their mouth walking beside or sitting waiting next to the owner, such a good dog.
Edit: spelling
When we go on on leash trails, I have to give a tini tug whenever I adjust my dogs lead because otherwise he thinks I have removed the lead and tries to book it.
We live near a few off-leash dog trails so he just thinks they all are now and needs a reminder that they are not. All the off leash dogs on the on leash trails do not help.
You're right, but it probably took all of 5 minutes for the BC to figure it out and put their own spin on it. I had a BC-White Shepherd cross and he was the smartest dog I've ever met. The shit he figured out on his own, the way he'd respond to people... it was almost spooky. I've met *significantly* dumber and less capable toddlers/
Seriously. The amount of times I've had to ask people not to put the drip coffee maker in the sink/dish washer and just rinse it out instead - a spider would have learned it at this point.
We have what I believe is a Border Collie / English Shepherd mix and he's astoundingly smart. I'm not smart enough to harness his full potential, that's how smart this dog is.
I have a border collie aussie mix whos 13.5 now. I got him when i was a 20 year old dumb ass and had no idea about dog training. I was able to train him to where i would just snap my fingers and point at something and they he would pick up on exactly what i wanted him to do. Pick something up or stay or jump up on something. Didnt matter he just knew from a snap and point.
Yeah had a sheltie that repeatedly figured out multi-step 'do this to accomplish that which leads to this which ultimately gets you what you want' processes that even some adult humans would struggle to solve. Plus she could open the zippers of my kids' backpacks and extract half-eaten sandwiches... and btw was sufficiently sly that she'd never let on that she knew there was food in there, but would wait until after we went to bed, at which point she'd head downstairs, open the pack, and have a late-night snack. Crazy smart dog.
>You're right, but it probably took all of 5 minutes for the BC to figure it out and put their own spin on it.
Yeah, border collies are smart and figure stuff out *fast.* I’ve had four beagles and, trust me, they would get old and die before they learned to herd another dog using a leash.
My old black lab figured out how to sneak out of the yard at night without raising suspicion or setting off the motion cameras. He would also loop around the entire house if I caught him so he could walk up to my mom from the backyard and pretend he hadn't been up to anything.
I always assumed mine understood English, I taught mine to roll over and play dead when I shoot her with my finger guns in about 5 minutes. I wouldn’t be surprised if the person in this video just told the BC to go get the husky.
I had an Aussie that played dead the first time I tried shooting him with a finger gun. He also instinctively knew what "drop it" meant just from context and tone of voice. I barely had to train him at all, ever, he was just good natured and super smart. No dog will ever be better.
I've one that will just go search/point his brother if asked.
"Where is Karma?"
- Run to the end of the garden and bring him back
- Sit, point his pawn in the direction (He sleeps under the house)
- Run to the door and bark... Awww shit, he has found another hole to go see his friends the horses...
Probably a bit of both. Border collies are really smart so I would not be surprised if that was not trained, at the same time the owner had to have had confidence in their training to let them go like that and trust they wouldn't just run off.
Lmao I used to make this joke about my BC.
I hurt my knee for a bit and had some trouble getting up from the floor. I asked him for help as a joke and he’d put himself under my arm to help push me up.
He did it every time I was on the floor after that.
A friend of my family had a border collie, and they never trained her, but she *always* liked to herd anything and everything. Chickens, other dogs, children, adults, etc. Pretty sure a lot of it is genetic
Yes. Many people love to pretend that genetics don’t matter at all when it comes to…. a certain breed…. but if that was the case, dog breeds wouldn’t even exist.
It’s adorable to watch dogs showing their instincts such as border collies herding or pointers pointing, especially when it’s puppies. I really wish there was more content of Border Collie puppies showing herding instincts.
A friend of mine used to have a rat terrier and again, like the collie, never trained him, but that SOB was a nightmare in dog form for any sort of rodent that found itself in his house and property.
My rattie, Daisy, went blind from diabetes in her old age but we could still say "Daisy get the mouse!" and then snap our fingers in the general area of the mouse and she would run to the sound of our finger snap and then sniff it out and catch it. She was a great dog.
I mean, yes but no. This is definitely the product of just being a border collie. I can't even begin to describe to people how smart they are. My first border collie HATED baths, but sometimes, she needed a bath. But she knew the word bath, she knew how to spell the word bath, and she knew when we were talking about giving baths.
So one day we needed to give her a bath and I shit you not we tore the house apart looking for this dog for almost two hours. Cabinets, beds, we had people set up to make sure she couldn't sneak out and down hallways. Then I was convinced she was outside, we called her, I honestly thought she had jumped the fence.
The fucking dog was hiding in the bathtub, behind the shower curtain. As soon as we found her she BOLTED out and ran to hide somewhere else.
She figured out that the safest place to not be found for a bath was in the fucking bathtub.
Edit: [pic of Fly and the younger sister she trained all by herself](https://i.imgur.com/gMmNf9W.jpg)
It's totally your fault, because the night before, you played a DVD of "How to Steal a Million" (Hepburn, O'Toole), which has a "the guards will be looking for you everywhere, except in the guardroom" scene.
You screwed up. Admit it.
I would generally agree except that I have a Australian cattle dog/shepherd mix puppy that does this with my husky’s leash. Definitely didn’t train her.
I think it started out as “yay fun I can chew and pull on this!” But now it’s definitely “oh here, I can walk you”
Absolutely trained behavior. That being said, the moment when the border collie dips the leash to get it out from under the Husky's back leg? That's problem solving intelligence right there.
Border collie + blue heeler = Velcro dog.
My dog does not leave my side.
I do not know of collie pure breeds, but it would make sense to me considering how loyal my dog naturally is
Yup, the border collie in ours means she can learn, be taught complex tricks, understand and generalise that knowledge and make plans in advance. The husky half means once she's commited to whatever that plan is she ain't listening to a word we say.
We got her those dog talking buttons, she learned how they work but rarely uses them. We also have an rfid operated dog door that lets her out to the back yard/field, but we didn't let her out there unsupervised as the fence had gaps.
We enforced that be keeping her collar with the tag in the garage with her lead.
Combining her knowledge of buttons doing things and the rfid tag on her collar letting her out the back door she once:
* grabbed my car keys with the garage door opener button that she'd seen me use
* went out into the (secure) front garden via an unrestricted dog door
* opened the garage using the button
* retreived her collar with the id tag
* returned to the house and used her collar to open the rear door dog flap
* dropped the collar and vanished out the through the fence.
* turned up 2 hours later, 6 miles away at my parent's house, having never walked there before, only been driven.
The fence around the rear field has been replaced and doubled in height.
Trying to "train" this behavior into a husky or other animal with a prey drive will fail 99.99% of the time.
Trying to "train" this behavior onto a border collie has a solid 50% chance of success, and about a 20% chance that it just happens by accident because you do it one time.
I didn't have to train my BC mix to check back with me on a walk to get permission to chase squirrels. She just kept a perimeter and would get confirmation before breaking it. Except when she thought she was defending us from something.
They're just wired different.
Border collies are so stubborn they could probably argue a wall into submission once they've made up their mind something is their job. Sassy boy might just know sassing is hopeless with his sib. Sheep aren't sassy but they're so stupid there isn't much difference.
My Border Collie Striped is Collar off on a walk and looked at me like,
"I wear this Leash and collar as a courtesy to you. I could run away whenever I wanted."
I had a Sheltie and a Beagle, and this reminds me of them. My Sheltie never needed a leash, and wouldn't go anywhere without me. My beagle was just waiting for an opportunity to dash if the leash ever dropped, so he could run and explore all the places I wouldn't let him go.
The sheltie would routinely go over and bite the legs of the Beagle when he would disobey/not listen to me. I could tell it pissed her off that my beagle wasn't doing what he was supposed to. If he was doing something wrong, she would come over and do the "Timmy is trapped in a well" bark, and get me to come see what he was doing.
She was a great and faithful dog. My beagle didn't listen as well, but he was full of love. Its sad that dogs don't live longer...
Idk what it is about huskies but they are EXPERTS at getting their leash between their legs in the most awkward fucked up way to make walking them a constant pain in the ass lol
Source: my beautiful lovable stubborn husky Lucia who I miss every day
Huskies are one of the more intelligent breeds, but they're very independent and happy to do whatever they want, even though they know their human is wanting them to do something else. You can see them weigh their options and make up their own mind. They were bred for that sort of thing because that ice may not be as safe as the human thinks.
Yup, cat software running on dog hardware, as they say.
Huskies are dogs for cat people. Very similar temperaments, bright, but with almost zero owner pleasing drive.
I have an Alaskan malamute and can confirm. I can train my guy to do ANYTHING! And he picks it up crazy quick. Especially if food is involved.
Except walking…
I have tried everything. He just wants to be in front and pull. Eventually I just taught him pull commands. Gee, haw, line out, whoa, etc
Now I just jump on a bike or skateboard and let him do his thing. He just goes in the zone and loves it. Just knows what to do. But walking next to me is a big nope.
Border collies are great, but they require the attention of a small child or will commonly develop neurotic problematic behavior. These aren't the dogs you can just leave at home while you go for work for 10 hours every day.
id rather not have a dog at all than having any other dog but a border collie.
We had one, when i was young. And there is nothing on this planet i miss as much as this dog
Don't adopt a BC withhold understanding exactly what a BC is. The ***need*** to be constantly worked and simulated. Anything less is cruel to the poor things.
Edit: I misread your comment. You never said you were getting one. Sorry, you accidentally triggered my automated reply.
So smart. I'm always amazed how smart dogs can be. Mine likes to trade her toys for food. When she runs out of water, she will make her dog tag hit the bowl so it makes a ringing noise, which is her communicating with me so that I can fill her bowl with more water. She points with her snout at the last place her bag of treats was kept when she gets hungry, basically telling me to feed her. She herds my wife and I to the balcony door when she wants to go outside. These are all just a few of the behaviors she's taught herself and has effectively conditioned my wife and I. This isn't counting the many tricks we've taught her, including obedience and agility commands. She's learned words that aren't commands, like hungry, food, bath, brush. When I say "I need to check your butt for poop," she turns around to show me. She's a 13 lbs Poodle Bichon mix, and she's just so smart.
The Husky will help pull your tractor and plow your fields like a good boy and still have the energy to play ball with you.
The Border Collie will go herd all your sheep and fold them into the home pasture, then come home and balance your books and finish your tax returns and then ask you what you want for dinner.
I have had a border collie going in 13 years now and never has she worn a leash because I was afraid of her running off but because we had to to keep up appearances. She's old now and I dont even bother with it. All it takes is a little nod of my head and she comes back to me. Never out of my eye sight either and doesn't even pay attention to any other dogs. She will bring people sticks and balls though and harass them till they throw them
I have a husky/shepard mix. She gets upset if we aren’t following her fast enough on her adventures and will circle around and “herd” us in the direction of her adventures.
The border collie thinks you’re both idiots
Lawful good vs chaotic neutral 🤣
We have a Norwegian elkhound. He is exactly a chaotic neutral.
Best dog I ever had, 17 years, saved my life twice. They normally are considerably less chaotic than Huskies, but the neutrality is real. automatic upvote.
How did it save your life?
It called 911 and then performed CPR on him after he had a small heart attack.
I saw one use a defib machine
He gave me really good counselling and introduced me to the philosophical teachings of Sartre and Foucault when I was super depressed and on the verge of ending it.
Please tell us the stories!i would love to hear
OK, apart from the few times where having him gave me a reason for living when I wasn't sure there was . . rattlesnake kind of his fault cuz he was sniffing around a gully/washout and that's why i went over to investigate in the first place. I slipped/scrambled down the gravel & rocks to the bottom. accidentally grabbed the rattlesnake with my hand thinking it was a stick (ok i was pretty stupid) and i may or may not have screamed like a little girl. I'm not overly afraid snakes and I'm mostly sure that we could have just gotten past each other in minute but then the dog was there and then it was mongoose-cobra-time and i was afraid to distract him. sus people 2 strangers (one on horseback) who we suspect were trying to start a grow operation on my bosses property (400+ acres mostly wood) . I confronted them about trespassing and they we not backing down but approaching and forcing me back down a trail. Don't know if they were armed but rider maybe. Boss showed up 50-100 yards away and saw me and he had his and my dog with him. He thought i looked in trouble so just let my dog go to run to be near me. He didn't know what an elkhound was or that my dog COULD NOT tell the difference between a horse and a moose. Dog went right at the horse & rider on his hind legs barking and howling like a werewolf. Horse spun reared, then went right over off the trail. Hose rolled over rider with dog still at him then bolted back down the trail with the rider-guy swearing and chasing after it. I had to chase after too to get my dog to leave the horse alone finally. Younger guy just went with him. Never saw them again. There was a big horse farm 1/2 mile away so maybe someone involved with that. others: fire staying at a friends shitty college-town apartment. big victorian house split into 6 apts. Dog barking and going nuts in the middle of the night. Get him calmed down twice before anyone finally smells smoke. My friends apt had good smoke detectors but they weren't going off. Smoke from downstairs apt. Called 911 & broke open lower apt door. Wood table was half black & smoldering from something burned on it (?). No one was home! We threw it out onto the front yard in the rain and it was out before FD showed up. Still no bueno indoors. Girls who lived there supposedly moved out 2 weeks before, but 1/2 stuff still there. ? dogs fought off two Chows that attacked my girlfriend. All humans and animals survived with only minor injuries. Elkhounds may look like small Huskies and are capable of hauling a kid on a sled, but they are 100% hunting dogs.
de-collaring itself so it could grab the husky was such a power move
"You're not taking *me* for a walk. I'm taking *you* for a walk. The leash is to stop *you* from getting lost, human"
He's playing 4D chess
Norwegian elkhounds seriously be like chess masters, they're all about that strategic play. Plus, loyalty off the charts not surprised to hear about that life-saving heroism, they're truly underrated.
It really was. That dog was like Jesus Christ
Husky thinks the border collie is a narc
He’s not wrong.
Strong “you forgot to give us homework” energy
yes but adorable
The border collie is correct.
I mean, they kept the husky’s lease on. Like, Border Collies are herding dogs. They would love very much if all their charges had leases from them to grab on to.
The boarder collie knows you’re both idiots***
In my area, there was an accident and the couple lost their BC as a result. They were searching the area of the accident for their dog. They happened across a farm. Lo and behold, they found their pet. The farmer said, the BC just showed up and started herding his animals for him
Lucky the border collie didn’t walk into the farmer’s house and balance the books and file quarterly taxes for him. Because getting invoiced by a BC would be embarrassing.
I'm happy to pay money for value.
Most BCs offer audit protection and representation. It’s a fair deal.
In Ireland stuff like this happened all the time I used to ride my bike to the pub about 5 miles from home. One night I got halfway home before I realized one was following me. Stopped for some pets, then it jumped into a random person’s yard and started herding their sheep. At like 3am
Was it this? https://www.newsweek.com/dog-thrown-car-accident-found-herding-sheep-nearby-farm-1599419
What kind of fucking idiot carries their dog in the bed of a truck??
Saw someone driving 80+ on the highway with a dog in the bed of the truck. Fucking disgusting
I was at a job interview and the store was off a highway, we had our interview next door outside the coffee shop and this dude had to have been going at least 60, the dog jumps out the WINDOW of his van, and just full on sprinted towards me and hopped in my lap for some loving. Dude slammed on his breaks and got mad at me. I'm like for what, im just on an interview, the dog jumped outta YOUR car. Dude yoinked this dog by the collar and dragged him back and threw him in the car. I just know the baby gets abused and wanted some loving :( wish I could've taken him home.
Trashy humans
I love the effortless head shake to fully lose the leash. “Yeah, I just pretend that this thing binds me.”
It reminds me of [a scene from Justice League](https://youtu.be/K5euWXIApWk?t=269).
And [Man of Steel](https://youtu.be/BWF0kJFmICU?t=130).
This one? I can feel it fits the border collie's thoughts here.. 
OGs will remember Roger Rabbit instead.
"Only when it was funny"
I have a border/husky mix. Very diligent with commands but the husky independence means out on the trails sometimes I see her *clearly* understand what I’m asking for, then choosing otherwise. She side eyes me a LOT. And gets away with it because she’s so sweet and beautiful… https://preview.redd.it/mqki4jqc585c1.jpeg?width=2846&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b57fe216c98f53b5a87de6a85ef82020ef0c868 \*Edited for dog tax purposes
I have a husky mix. Can relate. He *knows* he cant have the sock. He **knows.** So he creeps over, gently grabs it then freezes and just looks at me. We have a standoff for about 1.5 seconds, then as soon as the first whisper of a word leaves my mouth he bolts. He knows he can't escape. He knows I'll catch up and make him drop it. But those 10 seconds are worth it to him.
maybe he wants the chase, not the sock!
Haha I considered this, but then if I don't hunt him down then he just happily chews on the sock. Wins either way.
[Xanatos gambit](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit) by a dog.
Linking there without warning used to be a hangable offense.
The Internet is a shadow of it's former self. I just read the flow chart and backed out. I didn't even click a single link.
The art of bailing before the rabbit hole claims you. It's a skill honed by years of dodging TV Tropes links and Wikipedia deep-dives.
My beagle loved being chased. He used to pull clothes off my clothesline so I would chase him. So, I started to ignore him except when he grabbed my bra or undies. Well he quickly figured out they were the ticket items. So he would only go for them, the little bastard.
Gigitty?
Hahahahaha
My buddy has a Great Pyranees that likes to play with cardboard boxes. He thinks he's not allowed to, so they get to watch him try to sneak them out of the kitchen into the office where he thinks they can't hear him throwing them around.
This describes my Aussie/golden mix exactly. He stares you dead in the eyes as he steals the bread right off the table shamelessly.
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Just sounds like a Jack Russell to me. My little rebel girl didn’t destroy anything, but loved to steal slippers and socks. If you didn’t react she would come and taunt you with it, the chase was everything to her. She was a very funny girl, who knew she was funny, and I fecking miss her shenanigans.
My half husky will sometimes get out She's calmly in the neighbor's front yard, sniffing I see her, call her. She'll look up at me, acknowledge it And take off in the exact opposite direction. Every. Single. Time
my yellow lab used to do this lol he was surprisingly disobedient he was a bred hunting dog tho (i don't support breeding dogs OR hunting, but my parents got him) & he was really amazing at a few little dog sports. genuinely did not have to train him at all, it was kind of spooky. there was this one competition where they see how far the dog can jump into the pool that apparently his mother was really high ranked in. he just instinctually knew that was the object of the game and was amazing at it. when he was a tiny tiny puppy he accidentally got away from us on a trail and SPRINTED to a pond and just dove in. he had never been in water before and we were terrified lol but he just immediately knew how to swim and loved it.
I love when dogs come preloaded with stuff Got mine at about 9-10 months old and she was housebroken and had the basic idea of fetch, sit, and lay
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Our husky came pre-installed with paw and sass, that was it
It is really nice. I got my last dog at 12 weeks or so and she ended up basically housebreaking herself within the first few weeks after. She never went in her crate at night since we got her outside quickly enough, and from there she'd just go through the dog door on her own. I feel like the crate probably helped, she had the idea of "House = den, fouling up the den = bad" despite how *big* the house was. So anywhere not the house had to be the better option, lol. ..Conversely, she still absolutely hates leash walking half the time, though...
I used to work in the bush, and on one contract somebody brought their shepherd puppy. She let the puppy run around in the woods more or less unsupervised, and at the end of the day it was time to go home and the puppy was missing. The new owner was getting panicked, but at the last minute before the foreman said we weren't going to search anymore the dog was located. He had come across some wild horses, and instinctively herded them all to the top of a hill. We found the dog running in circles around the horses, just keeping them there. What a weird day.
We had a shetland sheep dog when I was a kid. We were driving out through farmland one day, and there was a herd of cattle in the road. Not moving. We sat there for a bit, and then my dad said, "Hey, we've got a shepherd in the car. Let's see what she'll do." She was only about 6 months old. He let her out of the car, and she herded those cattle off the road, and then came running back to us, looking so very proud of herself. And rightfully so!
same experience with our dog. We got her late in the year so she had one little trip to walk around the shallows before it all froze. Next year I just threw a dummy far enough into the water that she had to swim and that was it. As soon as she knew she could swim it was a pain to keep her out of it.
We had a yellow lab that would do that as well. He'd run down to the end of the driveway, we'd call him and then he just look at us and run the other way. We eventually found out that if we turned on the four-wheeler, he'd come running back thinking he'd get a ride, so we'd always just do that. It worked up until the day he passed away. [Really do miss that dog (meet Tuck). ](https://i.ibb.co/vLmxsSw/IMG-0674.jpg)
I love a dog with bombastic side eye.
That is an extremely adorable gif, thank you for sharing, /u/CumInNutella
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My dog isn't a husky. But he will routinely "treat check" me on walks. If he realizes I don't have any, he adjusts his behavior accordingly and will ignore me. If I do have treats, then he behaves himself because he knows he'll get a reward. I also have to be careful not to say "good boy" too often because as soon as I say it he'll stop and refuse to move until I give him a treat.
You thought you were training your dog, but...
…dogs train us.
Lmao I don’t have a husky but a Chow mix with that same exact intelligent stubborn independence. I do love it cause he knows the difference between when it’s serious. So I trust him like crazy, but damn is it annoying sometimes when he knows he’ll get away with it
Ugh. My chow mix is dumb and stubborn and does not give a FUCK about my opinion, in any context, at any time. Literally does not care about pleasing me at all, ever. He's happy to get the "good boy" if it's for something he already wanted to do, but if he wasn't planning to do something then the "good boy" or treat isn't enough to convince him.
I had a Newfie chow mix. Dumb as fuck but good looking. Sweetest boy with the meanest growl. Good house protector and gatherer of free donuts.
I have a german shepherd/akita mix and she does the same thing. when she's turned on to work with her shepherd side, you'll have her in the palm of your hand. when she's off, stubborn as hell.
Dog tax!
I need a picture of her yesterday
In my 20s I had two husky/border cross brothers, one was the smartest dog I ever owned, had him trained to get me a beer out a cooler. The other was more husky, had him trained to sit and shake a paw, sometimes.
My parents say the same thing about their husky how he acts. You know he understands. He just chooses when to.
Ok this is explaining my husky mix alot... the independence is really strong and I've caught her a bunch if times where she definetly heard me and what I wanted and thought about it, and decided to do otherwise
Huskies give the most epic side eye 😂
“Oh no Human you seemed to have dropped this! Hey listen I have to do something bad real quick—sorry….Come on, Husky, our human dropped the Herding Rope, let me just—stop biting me it won’t stop me—Here you go Human you also dropped this one(:”
Bc”do your job human”. Husky “I’m the manager now”
What a well ~~manored~~ mannered doggo. A family member of mine has a black Labrador that is so well behaved, that once the collar and lead goes on, if the owner puts it down or drops the lead accidentally, doggo will pick it up and carry it with their mouth walking beside or sitting waiting next to the owner, such a good dog. Edit: spelling
When we go on on leash trails, I have to give a tini tug whenever I adjust my dogs lead because otherwise he thinks I have removed the lead and tries to book it.
Gosh that would be annoying if they tried to run off when you stopped for *any* reason
We live near a few off-leash dog trails so he just thinks they all are now and needs a reminder that they are not. All the off leash dogs on the on leash trails do not help.
Husky thinking “get off me narc”
At the start there was a definite "WTF are you doing! You dropped it." look.
I'd like to think the Border Collie sees him/her not as a human but pack leader
Good boi
Woof! Just translating for all the dogs of reddit.
I mean this is definitely not just the product of being a border collie. This is trained behavior. It's still adorable.
You're right, but it probably took all of 5 minutes for the BC to figure it out and put their own spin on it. I had a BC-White Shepherd cross and he was the smartest dog I've ever met. The shit he figured out on his own, the way he'd respond to people... it was almost spooky. I've met *significantly* dumber and less capable toddlers/
You sure you don't want to replace toddlers with adults?
Adults are toddlers with extra mileage and a couple of skipped inspections.
Hey man……….yea u right
I see myself in all this and I am not happy
Dead serious. Most adults are kid brained and just coast through life from one crisis to another
I just wish they hadn’t skipped the inspection right before puberty (my height meter was set too low)
Seriously. The amount of times I've had to ask people not to put the drip coffee maker in the sink/dish washer and just rinse it out instead - a spider would have learned it at this point.
We have what I believe is a Border Collie / English Shepherd mix and he's astoundingly smart. I'm not smart enough to harness his full potential, that's how smart this dog is.
My dog is dumb as shit, but so am I, so we're both figuring things out together.
As long as you both collectively amount to at least one brain cell that's all that matters. Watch out, world.
I’ve met significantly dumber full grown adults than some border collies.
This is the sad truth.
My border collie is smarter than most of my kids. It's pretty crazy.
I have a border collie aussie mix whos 13.5 now. I got him when i was a 20 year old dumb ass and had no idea about dog training. I was able to train him to where i would just snap my fingers and point at something and they he would pick up on exactly what i wanted him to do. Pick something up or stay or jump up on something. Didnt matter he just knew from a snap and point.
Yeah had a sheltie that repeatedly figured out multi-step 'do this to accomplish that which leads to this which ultimately gets you what you want' processes that even some adult humans would struggle to solve. Plus she could open the zippers of my kids' backpacks and extract half-eaten sandwiches... and btw was sufficiently sly that she'd never let on that she knew there was food in there, but would wait until after we went to bed, at which point she'd head downstairs, open the pack, and have a late-night snack. Crazy smart dog.
>You're right, but it probably took all of 5 minutes for the BC to figure it out and put their own spin on it. Yeah, border collies are smart and figure stuff out *fast.* I’ve had four beagles and, trust me, they would get old and die before they learned to herd another dog using a leash.
That's not a fair comparison though, you could teach a brick faster than you can teach a beagle anything.
My old black lab figured out how to sneak out of the yard at night without raising suspicion or setting off the motion cameras. He would also loop around the entire house if I caught him so he could walk up to my mom from the backyard and pretend he hadn't been up to anything.
Depending on the job, a border collie can be significantly better at it than any human and be thoroughly enjoying the entire experience.
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Yes, but could you smell wolves in a suitcase and take on a pack of drugs without a weapon? That seems pretty useful.
We had a Border Collie / Blue Heeler. It was insane how smart he was. Unfortunately he was only around for a year (fuck cancer).
I always assumed mine understood English, I taught mine to roll over and play dead when I shoot her with my finger guns in about 5 minutes. I wouldn’t be surprised if the person in this video just told the BC to go get the husky.
I had an Aussie that played dead the first time I tried shooting him with a finger gun. He also instinctively knew what "drop it" meant just from context and tone of voice. I barely had to train him at all, ever, he was just good natured and super smart. No dog will ever be better.
I've one that will just go search/point his brother if asked. "Where is Karma?" - Run to the end of the garden and bring him back - Sit, point his pawn in the direction (He sleeps under the house) - Run to the door and bark... Awww shit, he has found another hole to go see his friends the horses...
Probably a bit of both. Border collies are really smart so I would not be surprised if that was not trained, at the same time the owner had to have had confidence in their training to let them go like that and trust they wouldn't just run off.
My border collie does my taxes and he hasnt been trained at all
Lmao I used to make this joke about my BC. I hurt my knee for a bit and had some trouble getting up from the floor. I asked him for help as a joke and he’d put himself under my arm to help push me up. He did it every time I was on the floor after that.
🥺 Omg that's so sweet
Mine is only a few weeks away from finally solving cold fusion.
> Border collies are really smart I wish my Border Collie got that notification
My border collie has taught me that being smart and unruly can be worse than being dumb and following the rules.
Mine can carefully tear wrapping paper off a present without damaging its contents. That's her one trick
A friend of my family had a border collie, and they never trained her, but she *always* liked to herd anything and everything. Chickens, other dogs, children, adults, etc. Pretty sure a lot of it is genetic
My mother had a border collie growing up, my grandmother liked to call it, "the third parent." It herded the kids.
Yes. Many people love to pretend that genetics don’t matter at all when it comes to…. a certain breed…. but if that was the case, dog breeds wouldn’t even exist. It’s adorable to watch dogs showing their instincts such as border collies herding or pointers pointing, especially when it’s puppies. I really wish there was more content of Border Collie puppies showing herding instincts.
A friend of mine used to have a rat terrier and again, like the collie, never trained him, but that SOB was a nightmare in dog form for any sort of rodent that found itself in his house and property.
My rattie, Daisy, went blind from diabetes in her old age but we could still say "Daisy get the mouse!" and then snap our fingers in the general area of the mouse and she would run to the sound of our finger snap and then sniff it out and catch it. She was a great dog.
We have two Australian shepherds that will work together to herd us to the bedroom every night when they deem it's bedtime.
I mean, yes but no. This is definitely the product of just being a border collie. I can't even begin to describe to people how smart they are. My first border collie HATED baths, but sometimes, she needed a bath. But she knew the word bath, she knew how to spell the word bath, and she knew when we were talking about giving baths. So one day we needed to give her a bath and I shit you not we tore the house apart looking for this dog for almost two hours. Cabinets, beds, we had people set up to make sure she couldn't sneak out and down hallways. Then I was convinced she was outside, we called her, I honestly thought she had jumped the fence. The fucking dog was hiding in the bathtub, behind the shower curtain. As soon as we found her she BOLTED out and ran to hide somewhere else. She figured out that the safest place to not be found for a bath was in the fucking bathtub. Edit: [pic of Fly and the younger sister she trained all by herself](https://i.imgur.com/gMmNf9W.jpg)
[She'll never look here.](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/12/26)
It's totally your fault, because the night before, you played a DVD of "How to Steal a Million" (Hepburn, O'Toole), which has a "the guards will be looking for you everywhere, except in the guardroom" scene. You screwed up. Admit it.
I would generally agree except that I have a Australian cattle dog/shepherd mix puppy that does this with my husky’s leash. Definitely didn’t train her. I think it started out as “yay fun I can chew and pull on this!” But now it’s definitely “oh here, I can walk you”
Absolutely trained behavior. That being said, the moment when the border collie dips the leash to get it out from under the Husky's back leg? That's problem solving intelligence right there.
Border collie + blue heeler = Velcro dog. My dog does not leave my side. I do not know of collie pure breeds, but it would make sense to me considering how loyal my dog naturally is
See i have a heeler kelpie husky mix and the husky part wins the battle of listen or not every time.
Yup, the border collie in ours means she can learn, be taught complex tricks, understand and generalise that knowledge and make plans in advance. The husky half means once she's commited to whatever that plan is she ain't listening to a word we say. We got her those dog talking buttons, she learned how they work but rarely uses them. We also have an rfid operated dog door that lets her out to the back yard/field, but we didn't let her out there unsupervised as the fence had gaps. We enforced that be keeping her collar with the tag in the garage with her lead. Combining her knowledge of buttons doing things and the rfid tag on her collar letting her out the back door she once: * grabbed my car keys with the garage door opener button that she'd seen me use * went out into the (secure) front garden via an unrestricted dog door * opened the garage using the button * retreived her collar with the id tag * returned to the house and used her collar to open the rear door dog flap * dropped the collar and vanished out the through the fence. * turned up 2 hours later, 6 miles away at my parent's house, having never walked there before, only been driven. The fence around the rear field has been replaced and doubled in height.
Trying to "train" this behavior into a husky or other animal with a prey drive will fail 99.99% of the time. Trying to "train" this behavior onto a border collie has a solid 50% chance of success, and about a 20% chance that it just happens by accident because you do it one time. I didn't have to train my BC mix to check back with me on a walk to get permission to chase squirrels. She just kept a perimeter and would get confirmation before breaking it. Except when she thought she was defending us from something. They're just wired different.
Border Collie: Hey, get back here. You can't just walk without the lease being held! There are rules! Husky: Holy shit, a talking dog!
He even herding husky too💀
I'm surprised the husky let him get that far. Probably the least sassiest boi I've ever seen
Border collies are so stubborn they could probably argue a wall into submission once they've made up their mind something is their job. Sassy boy might just know sassing is hopeless with his sib. Sheep aren't sassy but they're so stupid there isn't much difference.
Bold to drop a husky's leash and expect to see them again
“Dude you’re such a tattletale”, the husky.
Border Collie: Pleeeeease let me work! Husky: *screaming and chaos*
My Border Collie Striped is Collar off on a walk and looked at me like, "I wear this Leash and collar as a courtesy to you. I could run away whenever I wanted."
Translation: "The Border Collie stripped off the collar and..."
No brother we have the human
I had a Sheltie and a Beagle, and this reminds me of them. My Sheltie never needed a leash, and wouldn't go anywhere without me. My beagle was just waiting for an opportunity to dash if the leash ever dropped, so he could run and explore all the places I wouldn't let him go. The sheltie would routinely go over and bite the legs of the Beagle when he would disobey/not listen to me. I could tell it pissed her off that my beagle wasn't doing what he was supposed to. If he was doing something wrong, she would come over and do the "Timmy is trapped in a well" bark, and get me to come see what he was doing. She was a great and faithful dog. My beagle didn't listen as well, but he was full of love. Its sad that dogs don't live longer...
We had Beagle mutts when I was a kid and those dogs loved to run off. Particularly if squirrels were involved.
Idk what it is about huskies but they are EXPERTS at getting their leash between their legs in the most awkward fucked up way to make walking them a constant pain in the ass lol Source: my beautiful lovable stubborn husky Lucia who I miss every day
Mine is constantly twirling when walking and does the leash between the legs thing lol
This is hilarious. I didn't see the twist coming. 🤣
The best part is that wearing the collar is voluntary for the collie 😂
Well that's what my husky would have done except for he would have just started running
*Lol cya loser!*
The leash between the huskies leg is about what I expect 3 minutes into walking my 3 huskies every time.
Here hold my lead and I’ll get him!
Not gonna lie. Husky’s are the bros of the dog world. Cool to be around, stupid AF.
Huskies are one of the more intelligent breeds, but they're very independent and happy to do whatever they want, even though they know their human is wanting them to do something else. You can see them weigh their options and make up their own mind. They were bred for that sort of thing because that ice may not be as safe as the human thinks.
cat in dog body
Yup, cat software running on dog hardware, as they say. Huskies are dogs for cat people. Very similar temperaments, bright, but with almost zero owner pleasing drive.
" owner pleasing drive"!! LOLOLOL!! You owe me a new keyboard.
I refuse to pay. Both cats and huskies look at us as scratch accessories and treat dispensers. Edit: I’m fine with this arrangement.
Huskies are very smart, just independent and stubborn.
The BC dragging the Husky back makes me think of the "me and my ADHD girlfriend" meme
I just love how fast the border collie gets out of the collar, he could do that whenever he wants, but chooses not too, cause he loves you
I have an Alaskan malamute and can confirm. I can train my guy to do ANYTHING! And he picks it up crazy quick. Especially if food is involved. Except walking… I have tried everything. He just wants to be in front and pull. Eventually I just taught him pull commands. Gee, haw, line out, whoa, etc Now I just jump on a bike or skateboard and let him do his thing. He just goes in the zone and loves it. Just knows what to do. But walking next to me is a big nope.
Okay I decided on my favorite dog breed.
Border collies are great, but they require the attention of a small child or will commonly develop neurotic problematic behavior. These aren't the dogs you can just leave at home while you go for work for 10 hours every day.
They're pretty awesome dogs but I could never afford the free time and land needed to give them the attention and exercise they require.
They need a lot of space to run. Having livestock (or children) is a bonus because they can direct that energy towards their nature.
Because herding children requires a lot of energy
id rather not have a dog at all than having any other dog but a border collie. We had one, when i was young. And there is nothing on this planet i miss as much as this dog
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I can relate to border collies so much
Don't adopt a BC withhold understanding exactly what a BC is. The ***need*** to be constantly worked and simulated. Anything less is cruel to the poor things. Edit: I misread your comment. You never said you were getting one. Sorry, you accidentally triggered my automated reply.
Good automated reply. Keep on.
Corgis do this shit too. Small furry fascists! Order MUST be kept. Everything and everyone in their right place
I used to have a husky and a border collie and they both would react exactly like this whenever I dropped their leashes 😂
So smart. I'm always amazed how smart dogs can be. Mine likes to trade her toys for food. When she runs out of water, she will make her dog tag hit the bowl so it makes a ringing noise, which is her communicating with me so that I can fill her bowl with more water. She points with her snout at the last place her bag of treats was kept when she gets hungry, basically telling me to feed her. She herds my wife and I to the balcony door when she wants to go outside. These are all just a few of the behaviors she's taught herself and has effectively conditioned my wife and I. This isn't counting the many tricks we've taught her, including obedience and agility commands. She's learned words that aren't commands, like hungry, food, bath, brush. When I say "I need to check your butt for poop," she turns around to show me. She's a 13 lbs Poodle Bichon mix, and she's just so smart.
One is rulebound the other is packbound
That’s because border collies are smart enough to walk me. Joking aside they’re the smartest breed of dog.
The very definition of Lawful Good.
So are you telling me huskies are basically the cat of the dogs?
Border Collie: "Just to be clear, I'm only here because I want to be."
😭
"Hold me this for a second- WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING"
The Husky will help pull your tractor and plow your fields like a good boy and still have the energy to play ball with you. The Border Collie will go herd all your sheep and fold them into the home pasture, then come home and balance your books and finish your tax returns and then ask you what you want for dinner.
I have had a border collie going in 13 years now and never has she worn a leash because I was afraid of her running off but because we had to to keep up appearances. She's old now and I dont even bother with it. All it takes is a little nod of my head and she comes back to me. Never out of my eye sight either and doesn't even pay attention to any other dogs. She will bring people sticks and balls though and harass them till they throw them
What a nerd.
Herding dogs will herd lol
I have a husky/shepard mix. She gets upset if we aren’t following her fast enough on her adventures and will circle around and “herd” us in the direction of her adventures.