The_Blind_Star

Do you find there's a big difference between "pet-line" BCs and "working-line"? I grew up on a sheep farm and the collies the farmer had were unstoppable balls of energy and cleverness, and while I know pet BCs are also very intense and need lots of mental stimulation, I've never seen a pet that could match a working collie's energy and stamina. I was told this was specifically to do with separate breed "stock" but I've wondered if that's true or if it's purely that working collies will, by definition, do more work and have a level of fitness accordingly?

That makes sense! I always thought of working line collies when someone would bring them up, so I thought it was totally insane when I learned that people would have them as pets in a big built up city. Then I saw the difference between the average pet collie vs a working one and it made slightly more sense.