"Omg something I did not expect this must be the literal end of the world we're all going to die and a meteor is coming to destroy everything all because one small change has occurred!"
When my GSD was a puppy she would have taken a few steps and then either checked back to make sure I was there or sprinted back at me because she was frustrated I wasn’t keeping up. Similar story with other shepherds I’ve known from friends
Mine is similar, I was so used to having dogs that would take off that I'd panic if I dropped the leash when getting him out of the car or something. But then I realized, he's not going anywhere if I'm not. I've left the fence gate open before and he won't leave, I can leave the front door open, he's not going anywhere.
He was a rescued street dog so I feel like he knows how much it sucks out there and isn't about to leave his safe, comfortable home.
I live in a very rural area and would just leave the back door open for my rottie-mix to come and go as she liked. More often than not she’d go out for 15 minutes of sniffing all the smells, do her business, and be back laying at my feet. 2 days ago was her last day with us and I’m still a mess. I’m sorry this is a bummer but she was such a good girl and having her immortalized in some small way in the corner of the internet makes me feel a little better.
I had a ginger Tomcat like that. I only trapped and neutered him because he was keeping me up screwing at all hours of the night. I took pity on him after picking him up from the vet so decided to give him a night locked in a bathroom to eat, rest and recuperate before turning him out. Which I did.
That evening when I returned from work, he decided that he was moving in with me.
He'd come on walks, follow directions, not steal my food, and always shit where he was supposed to shit. Frankly at that point in my life he was the most civilised house mate I'd ever had.
My shep mix is like this. Even if we’re at the dog park he will only go so far away from me before coming back. Sometimes he will get really into playing and go a little further away and I’ll see him mentally freak out a bit when he realizes he can’t see me. We might be a lil codependent, tho.
My GSD would get annoyed and grab my arm to pull me. He clearly thought that the leash was *his* way of commanding me.
GSD’s are something else though. Mine could also open doors, lock/unlock deadbolts (sometimes out of spite) and ring the doorbell. When going to the dog park he would use his nose to tell me how to start the engine, shift out of park, and then use my turn signal *in the correct sequence*. If he had thumbs I swear he would have driven himself there.
Probably the breed most sensitive with everything about their human. Body Language, voice, scent, routine.....they are completely attuned to what's going on with their humans.
It must be a smart sheepdog thing, I have a sheltie that would behave similarly to the border collies in the video. She ran out the front door the other day because she thought it was run around the yard and play time but noticed immediately that the front gate of our fence wasn't closed, a prerequisite to run around the yard and play time, so she stopped about ten feet outside the door and looked at me and when I told her it wasn't playtime she came right back in the house.
Sled dogs were specifically bred to ignore humans if feedback from.the ice says it's not safe to much when the boss says mush. They are preternaturally stubborn dogs because they were bred in a way to encourage knowing better than their owner in emergencies.
Most dogs would do something similar but genuinely believe huskies and mals are bringing different energy
The culture they come from is also very different. They’re working dogs, but they were still considered to have their own spirit, which couldn’t be owned by someone else. So I think that stubborn, independent attitude was valued in a way rather than breed out of them.
My dog was once in “I’m a big scary dog on a leash! Hear me bark mode” and then the leash suddenly came off.
He was extremely distressed. The whole point is I hold him back, and he is big and scary. He just stood there not barking and then glued himself to my side.
It was a very embarrassing moment for him in front of a teenaged puppy (the dog was his size, producing testosterone, but still a puppy).
He is also a poodle, a standard, but a small one, so he isn’t actually all that scary to begin with (although his bark is quite intimidating).
I used to have a husky and a golden retriever. The huskey would wonder off like this and the golden would retrieve her just like in the video. Especially if they went swimming. The husky would head out into the water and the golden would swim out to grab her collar and drag her back to us.
TIL I need a golden retriever. Love our husky but she heads for the pond across the street the second she realizes she’s free, leaving me to stand there and wait until she comes out.
It’s because huskies firmly believe they’re smarter than you and they’re walking you, not the other way around. The human is lost by dropping the lead.
I trained my Samoyed for a year and a half, had a trainer come in for an hour every three weeks. To her, training was just an excuse to eat more treats than usual. She knows all the stuff I taught her, she just refuses to do them unless it’s on her terms
I have noticed same with Weimaraners. They are smart enough to not respect if given chance. We had ours loose in middle of nowhere, farmer said it killed their sheep and was claiming money for that, but our dog lost a fight to a badger, a bloody one. So not plausible and we would have noticed.
Best hunting dog ever as a child, would spot me for approach even before I can see the target.
As someone who has a husky/shephard, I can say that not only are they escape artists, they are also long- distance runners.
Mine is dumb as a box of rocks. Not an ounce of german shep intelligence whatsoever. 🥰
Huskies have lots of brain cells just none of them agree with each other. Like every once and a while all of them will align and you’ll be amazed and then there’s the 99.9%. Lol
My experience is they have an impeccable sense of direction and will eventually return to the spot they left you at after about 20-30 miles of round trip running.
Husky/Shepard owner, can confirm
Mine's got the intelligence of the German Shepard, but it loses 99% of the time to her Husky chaos. Smart enough to plan and execute heists on food and toys, too chaotic to get away with it
I had a husky/shepherd that required a $600 iron crate because it nosed its way out of three of the wire ones. We tried giving him his own room but he ate through the door.
Oh, your Husky is very smart. Smart enough to know that "come" and "inside" are not words that agree with what your Husky wants to do. You husky wants to be in the woods, chasing deer, getting into a swamp, fighting with a skunk, and only when they're VERY hungry...coming home.
Also have a husky/shepherd. He's got the independence of a husky and the intelligence of a shepherd. But that just means that he understands my commands and sometimes deliberately does the opposite because he thinks it's funny.
But he also breaks up my cats if their playing turns to fighting and stops them from scratching on my furniture, without me having to say anything.
I have a husky-Samoyed and sometimes he escapes and we just sit in the front yard while he sprints around the neighborhood, pees on everything he can, and comes back inside after about 45 minutes/when he gets thirsty/when he remembers what a milkbone is and that they only exist in the portal to heaven we keep on our kitchen counter.
I once had to bring some tools to my buddies house for some renovating he was doing. I had caught sight of a husky on the roof of one of the houses just chilling. He came out to grab the tools and saw me just staring down the road. He told me not to worry the husky does it all the time..
My girlfriend and I always joke that our husky is defective. She is almost completely silent, no "awowowowow" or anything, only barks to get our attention for outside or to play. But multiple times she could have escaped, but just didn't.
The only husky traits she has are that snow is her favourite and if I call her in from the yard and she's not ready to come in she will make full eye contact with me and then look away as if she never heard me.
Yeah. My boy is old now, but in his younger years he was constantly escaping. Thankfully, most of the time he was just interested in neighbors' yards (and yup, he was already neutered).
A few times I had to search in the neighborhood. Huskies are derpy and dramatic, but they are definitely smart dogs.
I thought it was pretty hilarious that the husky seemed pretty willing to follow along, but then the collie dropped the lead and seemed to think the husky was resisting and then the collie got assertive.
“I am the cry of the revolution! I am freedom itself- Urk! Ugh, fine. I will begrudgingly return to my cage for now. But soon! Freedom will ring! For all puppers!”
lol bro was wandering off all absentmindedly. ITME
*no but fr, this is me the second my wife lets go of my hand at a public event, you’re gonna find me halfway across the room staring at some random painting no one has noticed*
My mastiff got herded by a collie once. They were both off lead in a big field outside town, my boy ran over to play and the collie just casually ran round him and guided him back to me, then sat down. It was so cool to watch, and I don't think my boy even realised he'd been played.
My border passed more than 10 years ago, and there's not a day that goes by that I don't think about her; so much so that I just can't bring myself to get another dog. When we got her I was 18 and home for my first year of college, and between our extended family and our neighborhood it was a moment in time when there were a lot of younger kids from toddlers to about 8 years old. Those first couple years were hysterical; every time there'd be a cookout or function at my folk's house or a neighbor's our dog would herd the kids. She wouldn't nip at them or be aggressive, she just made it her mission to keep all the kids in their designated area and everyone got a kick out of it.
My mother had an Australian cattle dog who was an immense help to her in their country acreage. When he'd see her get the milk bucket down he'd go and herd her little cow to the barn to be milked, he'd herd the chickens into the henhouse at night-he spent his days keeping Mom's chickens in the yard and the neighbors' chickens and dogs out of the yard. Anytime there were little kids in the yard he kept them herded into a nice little knot and if any of them veered too close to the road they were nudged away.
My husband asked me dad once if Redbone was the smartest dog he'd ever had, and my Dad gave him such a hard and fast **NO!** that I was momentarily surprised, until he continued with, 'he's the smartest dog I've ever **seen**!'.
We have a border collie red setter cross. He loves, and I mean *loves* to herd the kids. Best part of his day, when we go to the green for a big run and he gets to herd the kids who live on the street.
Honestly, more accurate to say it's what they're *bred* for. Herding dogs don't need to be trained to herd; it's largely instinctual.
Iirc it's thought to be an extension of the instinct to keep pups grouped together?
Not exactly, if he found some random object and used it that would be a lot closer. This is more monkey see monkey do with the leash, the dog has been taught that is how they are pulled around probably from being pulled around.
They're not OP's dogs. They belong to a Douyin creator called [牧哈兄弟](https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAAa_bNjoOiyZROEt2xU9gIQUjPyWVGBC4QBklUhZLnrzc). They have a lot more content focusing on these 3 dogs.
I know a couple that has 4 Australian Shepherds, one died a time ago and they took in a new 4 year old one, that the owner couldnt properly take care of and that wasnt trained much. I asked them if it isnt too much work to train 4 dogs. They said no. You have to train the first Aussie and after that that dog will teach the new dogs. They are very adamant that everyone has to follow the rules, they have to follow and that they internalized.
They are great dogs, incredibly affectionate and so intelligent. I didnt teach lots of commands directly, ours just picked it up. But they are also strong minded and stubborn.
This is exactly it.
For a pup by itself you have to coax it to sit on command.
If you have a dog that knows how to and a pup that doesn't, you say say SIT, the older one does, you congratulate them, the pup knows what to do and then gets congratulated.
Working dogs are best trained with a mentor.
And they give soo soo soo much love.
Long time ago my dad had a new GF who came with a bunch of cats and dogs. Two German shepherds and a Maltezer, the last one was unruly and couldn't be contained, but the shepherds were very obedient. And always together. If you called one and made him perform a trick he would paw at the other until he also did the trick. And one of my favourite things to do with them was take them outside to the shed, then hold one in place while someone took the other for a lap around the building. When at the third corner we'd release the one being held, causing it to bolt after the other, who was already almost back so he would see that and bolt after the first one. It could take 15 minutes of running laps before they realized the futulity.
Collies seem to sit right at the very special intersection of being really smart and really dumb while also having a lot of energy. They're great dogs but they need some kind of job and if they're not given one they'll invent one.
> and really dumb
Nothing dumb about border collies if we're going by dog intelligence. They are frequently ranked #1 in terms of learning the most complex tasks and memorizing the most commands. A collie named Chaser (RIP 2018) holds the world record for memorizing the names of 1022 items.
But as you say, they absolutely need to focus all that intelligence and energy into a daily routine, otherwise they will get frustrated and drive their owner nuts. They also keep winning agility competitions, to the point where some competitions restrict them just to give other breeds a chance. Border collies are like a super-breed.
Australian shepherds would be a close second.
Omg I can absolutely hear the frustration of the collies with their husky friend. xD hahaha, omg this is sooo funny. My late husky buddy would have done exactly that, likely ran outside of visual distance too. xD
Husky just doesn't give a damn. Freedom, lovely, what's that smell. I'm telling you, they're running on cat OS and they all have ADHD.
My last husky didn't wait for freedom. He just created many incidents of freedom for himself. In this situation, he would just likely start the sprint of running too far ahead, miss me, run right back, but not close enough to grab the leash, run behind me and repeat until he realized that I had turned around and was going home without him.
It was easier to not watch as he liked to run on the train tracks when trains were close enough to toot the horn at him, or cross four lanes of highway with heavy traffic. Did I worry while he took his sweet time coming home, absolutely. Because he was a rescue there were certain things he really didn't like, being on leash or tied to his run when he was outdoors. I could not train that out of him. We got him when he was 6 months old and had him for 13 years.
He was houdini at getting every type of mechanism that attached his collar to the run open. Then we finally found a climbers carabiner that had to be tightened by hand like a nut. We replaced his run made of airplane wire at least 3 times a year. Everyone thought we were cruel because he had a metal chocker collar. His old owner used to tie him up with very short rope. He ate every collar that wasn't metal. The only saving grace was he never learned how to throw that collar.
He also could open locked sliding doors, turn door knobs and dig or plain hop over fences. He knew how to get out of a kennel that had 4 zip ties and the regular mechanism that was supposed to keep it closed. He had very bad separation anxiety and would destroy the house if he wasn't kenneled. He was usually ok in the kennel after we got our female and her kennel was right next to his. We did Howe have to zip tie both kennels together because he figured out how to open both the cages if he banged the side of his kennel properly. His name was Hero. I miss him alot.
People keep talking about how smart the collies are, implying that they're much smarter than huskies. That does a mighty disservice to huskies.
Huskies are incredibly smart. They're just fucking stubborn, highly independent shits and much more difficult to train. They need stimulation and are disinterested in mundane tasks or commands.
Source: Grew up with huskies and have spent my entire adult life rescuing them. Currently have a pack of three (was four, but one just recently passed :( ).
when i saw this vid making the rounds before, someone said:
"having a husky and a border collie on the same walk is like having an arsonist live under the same roof as a firefighter"
I had a Husky, and if you dropped the leash she was fucking gone. We've lost her for a few days one time but she always came back. They are quite adventurous.
I grew up with Huskies, they are varying degrees of libertarian/anarchists. They don't need us, but if you're down to party, you're welcome to come along. I love them rotten.
Putting Border Collies with a Husky has to be annoying for the Border Collies. They know what they are supposed to do and do it, the Husky is like a toddler not knowing anything.
Anyone who’s ever been around a Husky can confirm, they just do whatever they want, always in their own little world lol
I think most breeds that aren't border collies would run off sniffing everything unless they are trained really well.
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Have whippet. Can confirm.
Please tell me you've named it Devo...
No, but I did consider the name “Goode.”
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"Omg something I did not expect this must be the literal end of the world we're all going to die and a meteor is coming to destroy everything all because one small change has occurred!"
Followed by "Oh. This couch is nice. Time for a quick six hour nap."
i have a whippet pup right now, and i grew up with whippets, so can confirm
When my GSD was a puppy she would have taken a few steps and then either checked back to make sure I was there or sprinted back at me because she was frustrated I wasn’t keeping up. Similar story with other shepherds I’ve known from friends
Mine is similar, I was so used to having dogs that would take off that I'd panic if I dropped the leash when getting him out of the car or something. But then I realized, he's not going anywhere if I'm not. I've left the fence gate open before and he won't leave, I can leave the front door open, he's not going anywhere. He was a rescued street dog so I feel like he knows how much it sucks out there and isn't about to leave his safe, comfortable home.
I live in a very rural area and would just leave the back door open for my rottie-mix to come and go as she liked. More often than not she’d go out for 15 minutes of sniffing all the smells, do her business, and be back laying at my feet. 2 days ago was her last day with us and I’m still a mess. I’m sorry this is a bummer but she was such a good girl and having her immortalized in some small way in the corner of the internet makes me feel a little better.
So sorry for your loss. I lost my Shiba Inu two weeks ago. I know the pain well right now.
So sorry to hear this ♥️
She’s on an endless sniffing tour now and wouldn’t want you to be sad so keep thriving to respect her memory!
I had a ginger Tomcat like that. I only trapped and neutered him because he was keeping me up screwing at all hours of the night. I took pity on him after picking him up from the vet so decided to give him a night locked in a bathroom to eat, rest and recuperate before turning him out. Which I did. That evening when I returned from work, he decided that he was moving in with me. He'd come on walks, follow directions, not steal my food, and always shit where he was supposed to shit. Frankly at that point in my life he was the most civilised house mate I'd ever had.
My shep mix is like this. Even if we’re at the dog park he will only go so far away from me before coming back. Sometimes he will get really into playing and go a little further away and I’ll see him mentally freak out a bit when he realizes he can’t see me. We might be a lil codependent, tho.
My GSD would get annoyed and grab my arm to pull me. He clearly thought that the leash was *his* way of commanding me. GSD’s are something else though. Mine could also open doors, lock/unlock deadbolts (sometimes out of spite) and ring the doorbell. When going to the dog park he would use his nose to tell me how to start the engine, shift out of park, and then use my turn signal *in the correct sequence*. If he had thumbs I swear he would have driven himself there.
Probably the breed most sensitive with everything about their human. Body Language, voice, scent, routine.....they are completely attuned to what's going on with their humans.
Of course, that’s how they can control us. :)
It must be a smart sheepdog thing, I have a sheltie that would behave similarly to the border collies in the video. She ran out the front door the other day because she thought it was run around the yard and play time but noticed immediately that the front gate of our fence wasn't closed, a prerequisite to run around the yard and play time, so she stopped about ten feet outside the door and looked at me and when I told her it wasn't playtime she came right back in the house.
Sled dogs were specifically bred to ignore humans if feedback from.the ice says it's not safe to much when the boss says mush. They are preternaturally stubborn dogs because they were bred in a way to encourage knowing better than their owner in emergencies. Most dogs would do something similar but genuinely believe huskies and mals are bringing different energy
The culture they come from is also very different. They’re working dogs, but they were still considered to have their own spirit, which couldn’t be owned by someone else. So I think that stubborn, independent attitude was valued in a way rather than breed out of them.
My dog was once in “I’m a big scary dog on a leash! Hear me bark mode” and then the leash suddenly came off. He was extremely distressed. The whole point is I hold him back, and he is big and scary. He just stood there not barking and then glued himself to my side. It was a very embarrassing moment for him in front of a teenaged puppy (the dog was his size, producing testosterone, but still a puppy). He is also a poodle, a standard, but a small one, so he isn’t actually all that scary to begin with (although his bark is quite intimidating).
[HOLD ME BACK BRO!](https://youtu.be/duMdVGXuwX4?si=YpTaQmRZHUv-HPb5)
My Schnauzer-Yorkie would be running as fast as he can. 😂😂 He’s my Velcro boy, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t love his running space.
My dogs would bolt. I don't even dare try this with my misbehaving little brats. But then again I have bulldogs.. they don't give a damn.
I used to have a husky and a golden retriever. The huskey would wonder off like this and the golden would retrieve her just like in the video. Especially if they went swimming. The husky would head out into the water and the golden would swim out to grab her collar and drag her back to us.
TIL I need a golden retriever. Love our husky but she heads for the pond across the street the second she realizes she’s free, leaving me to stand there and wait until she comes out.
It’s because huskies firmly believe they’re smarter than you and they’re walking you, not the other way around. The human is lost by dropping the lead.
Having two huskies, I like to say that to a husky, training is more of a helpful suggestion.
Training is just trying to clearly communicate your wishes for a husky to consider. They'll understand you, they may or may not care.
Oh!! So Huskies are the Cats of the Dog world?! lol
I trained my Samoyed for a year and a half, had a trainer come in for an hour every three weeks. To her, training was just an excuse to eat more treats than usual. She knows all the stuff I taught her, she just refuses to do them unless it’s on her terms
Same with mine.
Orange cat energy ☠
I have noticed same with Weimaraners. They are smart enough to not respect if given chance. We had ours loose in middle of nowhere, farmer said it killed their sheep and was claiming money for that, but our dog lost a fight to a badger, a bloody one. So not plausible and we would have noticed. Best hunting dog ever as a child, would spot me for approach even before I can see the target.
So what I hear you saying is that huskies are the cats of the dog world. 🤔
You take me from the Forrest ,I take your peace
Have husky, can confirm
Two out of three ain’t bad
The husky was always a lost cause to be fair
I always see missing Husky’s on that Nextdoor. They’re escape artist.
As someone who has a husky/shephard, I can say that not only are they escape artists, they are also long- distance runners. Mine is dumb as a box of rocks. Not an ounce of german shep intelligence whatsoever. 🥰
Huskies have lots of brain cells just none of them agree with each other. Like every once and a while all of them will align and you’ll be amazed and then there’s the 99.9%. Lol
And when they do align, they do something dopey.
...it's almost always "Chase this squirrel through the woods for 10 minutes until I 1. tree him 2. lose him and find another squirrel.".
My experience is they have an impeccable sense of direction and will eventually return to the spot they left you at after about 20-30 miles of round trip running.
Just like us, they have their share of dopes
Husky/Shepard owner, can confirm Mine's got the intelligence of the German Shepard, but it loses 99% of the time to her Husky chaos. Smart enough to plan and execute heists on food and toys, too chaotic to get away with it
I had a husky/shepherd that required a $600 iron crate because it nosed its way out of three of the wire ones. We tried giving him his own room but he ate through the door.
Oh, your Husky is very smart. Smart enough to know that "come" and "inside" are not words that agree with what your Husky wants to do. You husky wants to be in the woods, chasing deer, getting into a swamp, fighting with a skunk, and only when they're VERY hungry...coming home.
Also have a husky/shepherd. He's got the independence of a husky and the intelligence of a shepherd. But that just means that he understands my commands and sometimes deliberately does the opposite because he thinks it's funny. But he also breaks up my cats if their playing turns to fighting and stops them from scratching on my furniture, without me having to say anything.
I have a husky-Samoyed and sometimes he escapes and we just sit in the front yard while he sprints around the neighborhood, pees on everything he can, and comes back inside after about 45 minutes/when he gets thirsty/when he remembers what a milkbone is and that they only exist in the portal to heaven we keep on our kitchen counter.
I once had to bring some tools to my buddies house for some renovating he was doing. I had caught sight of a husky on the roof of one of the houses just chilling. He came out to grab the tools and saw me just staring down the road. He told me not to worry the husky does it all the time..
My girlfriend and I always joke that our husky is defective. She is almost completely silent, no "awowowowow" or anything, only barks to get our attention for outside or to play. But multiple times she could have escaped, but just didn't. The only husky traits she has are that snow is her favourite and if I call her in from the yard and she's not ready to come in she will make full eye contact with me and then look away as if she never heard me.
I say the same exact thing about my husky. Quietest dog in the neighborhood!
Mine could crabwalk up and over a chain link fence. My sense is that’s not uncommon in huskies.
Yeah. My boy is old now, but in his younger years he was constantly escaping. Thankfully, most of the time he was just interested in neighbors' yards (and yup, he was already neutered). A few times I had to search in the neighborhood. Huskies are derpy and dramatic, but they are definitely smart dogs.
Lol I can't with this. They're like monkey/dog/cats all in one
I briefly had one that could scale my tree and and jump over 6ft fence. Someone else has her now
They're cats in dog bodies. It's horrid.
Jaja the border collies are smarter than the cats
Lost cause? That not his task or purpose.
Isn’t there a song about that 😋
Who let the dogs out?
Meee and youuuu, setting in a honeymooooooon
-Meatloaf
the husky - "the streets are calling and i'm going"🐶
The collie is the kid who reminds the teacher that she forgot to assign homework.
The border collie did a wonderful job how it brought the husky back, very intelligent doggo.
I love that little, "I SAID get back here" lunge when pulling him back.
The dog became an obedient sheep pretty quick lol
I thought it was pretty hilarious that the husky seemed pretty willing to follow along, but then the collie dropped the lead and seemed to think the husky was resisting and then the collie got assertive.
The collie got assertive only after the husky decided it wanted to play tug of war with the collie.
And the husky’s reluctant “Do we have to?” face.
Husky to the Collie: "YOU ARE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!"
“I am the cry of the revolution! I am freedom itself- Urk! Ugh, fine. I will begrudgingly return to my cage for now. But soon! Freedom will ring! For all puppers!”
*Classic* sheepdog. Exactly how they treat stubborn sheep. Husky gettin' herded.
lol I can relate. I always use the analogy that I’m a balloon and he’s the kid holding onto it, connecting me to earth.
That’s a very sweet image of you and your pup 🥰 I feel the same with my herding retriever mix
lol bro was wandering off all absentmindedly. ITME *no but fr, this is me the second my wife lets go of my hand at a public event, you’re gonna find me halfway across the room staring at some random painting no one has noticed*
Herders ..
My mastiff got herded by a collie once. They were both off lead in a big field outside town, my boy ran over to play and the collie just casually ran round him and guided him back to me, then sat down. It was so cool to watch, and I don't think my boy even realised he'd been played.
My border passed more than 10 years ago, and there's not a day that goes by that I don't think about her; so much so that I just can't bring myself to get another dog. When we got her I was 18 and home for my first year of college, and between our extended family and our neighborhood it was a moment in time when there were a lot of younger kids from toddlers to about 8 years old. Those first couple years were hysterical; every time there'd be a cookout or function at my folk's house or a neighbor's our dog would herd the kids. She wouldn't nip at them or be aggressive, she just made it her mission to keep all the kids in their designated area and everyone got a kick out of it.
My mother had an Australian cattle dog who was an immense help to her in their country acreage. When he'd see her get the milk bucket down he'd go and herd her little cow to the barn to be milked, he'd herd the chickens into the henhouse at night-he spent his days keeping Mom's chickens in the yard and the neighbors' chickens and dogs out of the yard. Anytime there were little kids in the yard he kept them herded into a nice little knot and if any of them veered too close to the road they were nudged away. My husband asked me dad once if Redbone was the smartest dog he'd ever had, and my Dad gave him such a hard and fast **NO!** that I was momentarily surprised, until he continued with, 'he's the smartest dog I've ever **seen**!'.
That’s adorable 🥰. Thankfully you can share with Reddit because otherwise only you and your mastiff know - and your mastiff would never admit to it .
herding dogs, that what they are trained for. Also incredibly intelligent.
We have a border collie red setter cross. He loves, and I mean *loves* to herd the kids. Best part of his day, when we go to the green for a big run and he gets to herd the kids who live on the street.
Honestly, more accurate to say it's what they're *bred* for. Herding dogs don't need to be trained to herd; it's largely instinctual. Iirc it's thought to be an extension of the instinct to keep pups grouped together?
You're right, I worded it wrong.
>COME HERE YA FUCKIN PRICK!
Butcher ? That you
OI
Would this count as using a tool to perform a task?
Not exactly, if he found some random object and used it that would be a lot closer. This is more monkey see monkey do with the leash, the dog has been taught that is how they are pulled around probably from being pulled around.
You can tell that it is dead serious as well. No tail wagging until it's handing off the leash.
Teachers pet
What a narc. ACAB All collies are bastards.
This was beautiful to watch. “The leash must be held!” Good thing your other dog saved the husky from whatever horrible fate was obviously looming.
They're not OP's dogs. They belong to a Douyin creator called [牧哈兄弟](https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAAa_bNjoOiyZROEt2xU9gIQUjPyWVGBC4QBklUhZLnrzc). They have a lot more content focusing on these 3 dogs.
Thanks for sharing the source. Sucks that people (not necessarily op) not only reupload their video but edited their own (English) caption onto it
It was so close
I know a couple that has 4 Australian Shepherds, one died a time ago and they took in a new 4 year old one, that the owner couldnt properly take care of and that wasnt trained much. I asked them if it isnt too much work to train 4 dogs. They said no. You have to train the first Aussie and after that that dog will teach the new dogs. They are very adamant that everyone has to follow the rules, they have to follow and that they internalized. They are great dogs, incredibly affectionate and so intelligent. I didnt teach lots of commands directly, ours just picked it up. But they are also strong minded and stubborn.
This is exactly it. For a pup by itself you have to coax it to sit on command. If you have a dog that knows how to and a pup that doesn't, you say say SIT, the older one does, you congratulate them, the pup knows what to do and then gets congratulated. Working dogs are best trained with a mentor. And they give soo soo soo much love.
Long time ago my dad had a new GF who came with a bunch of cats and dogs. Two German shepherds and a Maltezer, the last one was unruly and couldn't be contained, but the shepherds were very obedient. And always together. If you called one and made him perform a trick he would paw at the other until he also did the trick. And one of my favourite things to do with them was take them outside to the shed, then hold one in place while someone took the other for a lap around the building. When at the third corner we'd release the one being held, causing it to bolt after the other, who was already almost back so he would see that and bolt after the first one. It could take 15 minutes of running laps before they realized the futulity.
I love that little guy who bought the husky back bahahaha. He said 'we have a PACK formation and we are STICKING TO IT, Roger.' Smart fur babies!!!
You know who's boss.
Two border collies AND a husky? Christ, the energy demand of this pack must rival cities! They seem pretty chill though, so great job!
Vacuum manufacturers love this one weird (revenue boosting) trick.
I have a husky and I can confirm, this is the expected behavior
I first read this as "I am a husky and I can confirm.."
"Dude, chill. I'm coming. Sheesh" - every husky all the time
in every family there's just that one person 😂
You can practically hear him say "But mooooom"
Dammit, Moon-Moon.
God border collies are the best.
*after a few years of constant training Left to their own devices they can be little terrors!
Collies seem to sit right at the very special intersection of being really smart and really dumb while also having a lot of energy. They're great dogs but they need some kind of job and if they're not given one they'll invent one.
> and really dumb Nothing dumb about border collies if we're going by dog intelligence. They are frequently ranked #1 in terms of learning the most complex tasks and memorizing the most commands. A collie named Chaser (RIP 2018) holds the world record for memorizing the names of 1022 items. But as you say, they absolutely need to focus all that intelligence and energy into a daily routine, otherwise they will get frustrated and drive their owner nuts. They also keep winning agility competitions, to the point where some competitions restrict them just to give other breeds a chance. Border collies are like a super-breed. Australian shepherds would be a close second.
2 out of 3 dog dentists recommend leash floss.
It's good for your canines.
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Omg I can absolutely hear the frustration of the collies with their husky friend. xD hahaha, omg this is sooo funny. My late husky buddy would have done exactly that, likely ran outside of visual distance too. xD Husky just doesn't give a damn. Freedom, lovely, what's that smell. I'm telling you, they're running on cat OS and they all have ADHD.
To my eyes there are 3 owners and only 1 pet husky. Such cute babies!
Takes three just to herd 1 husky around, why am I not surprised.
The husky being a husky. Didn't even ran away, just casually strolling and sniffing the surroundings lol!
Aww, let’s also give the good girls some love too. Good ‘ol’ border collies. So obedient. So faithful.
Omg it's the Wii music
Nintendo has some bangers
The last 30 seconds: “Am I being detained?? Am I under arrest? What’s your badge number??”
Every dog has their advantages. Border collies are good for rounding people up, huskies will maintain the peace.
The collies are too much 😭 the last ones herding instincts really kicked in at the end lol
The other 2 are like " look at Bob...smh ".
Love it! I did love the initial—what ARE YOU DOING DAD look upon initial drop!1 Bravo to you. Great training
"I DONT CARE IF YOU WERE ADOPTED AND DONT LOOK LIKE US, YOURE STILL OUR BROTHER AND BROTHERS STAY TOGETHER"
_We were wolves once... Unhand me, you sheep_ - The Husky, probably
Mine would instantly just be GONE. Like, out in the Magellan cluster somewhere.
we don't deserve border collie
That one dag deserves a whole honey ham & scritches for superior performance in the line of duty.
That one border collie is Lawful Good
those border collie’s awareness is something else
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The Wild is Calling! I must follow!
Had husky can confirm most stubborn dog ever!
Reward those collies. Double treats.
My last husky didn't wait for freedom. He just created many incidents of freedom for himself. In this situation, he would just likely start the sprint of running too far ahead, miss me, run right back, but not close enough to grab the leash, run behind me and repeat until he realized that I had turned around and was going home without him. It was easier to not watch as he liked to run on the train tracks when trains were close enough to toot the horn at him, or cross four lanes of highway with heavy traffic. Did I worry while he took his sweet time coming home, absolutely. Because he was a rescue there were certain things he really didn't like, being on leash or tied to his run when he was outdoors. I could not train that out of him. We got him when he was 6 months old and had him for 13 years. He was houdini at getting every type of mechanism that attached his collar to the run open. Then we finally found a climbers carabiner that had to be tightened by hand like a nut. We replaced his run made of airplane wire at least 3 times a year. Everyone thought we were cruel because he had a metal chocker collar. His old owner used to tie him up with very short rope. He ate every collar that wasn't metal. The only saving grace was he never learned how to throw that collar. He also could open locked sliding doors, turn door knobs and dig or plain hop over fences. He knew how to get out of a kennel that had 4 zip ties and the regular mechanism that was supposed to keep it closed. He had very bad separation anxiety and would destroy the house if he wasn't kenneled. He was usually ok in the kennel after we got our female and her kennel was right next to his. We did Howe have to zip tie both kennels together because he figured out how to open both the cages if he banged the side of his kennel properly. His name was Hero. I miss him alot.
What a snitch ass dog
People keep talking about how smart the collies are, implying that they're much smarter than huskies. That does a mighty disservice to huskies. Huskies are incredibly smart. They're just fucking stubborn, highly independent shits and much more difficult to train. They need stimulation and are disinterested in mundane tasks or commands. Source: Grew up with huskies and have spent my entire adult life rescuing them. Currently have a pack of three (was four, but one just recently passed :( ).
I feel like every husky should have a slogan that reads, "You're either with me or you're against me."
when i saw this vid making the rounds before, someone said: "having a husky and a border collie on the same walk is like having an arsonist live under the same roof as a firefighter"
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A minor disagreement in operation 'taking a walk'
That went quite different than I expected considering I thought it read, "Testing how my dogs behave if I drop dead"
Our German shepherd will just stare at the dropped leash and then at me like "yo is this for real? Pick that back up, human."
"Dude, what are you doing!? That's illegal!"
Border collies are walking themselves. Not only that, they're even walking other dogs
Border collies are rule and routine followers :-)
Collie: C'MON BRUH Husky: Wat
Beagle would be gonna in an instant. Sniffing the ground 3 blocks away or rolling in the nearest dog shit. Whyyyyy
Gotta be absolutely lunatic tier to drop a leash with a husky.
Two of the smartest breed of dogs, and one of the most stubborn breed :) Plays out perfectly here.
Huskies: dog hardware on cat software
I love how smart border collies are.
That border collie is very well trained, and happy
That second collie looking at the husky is like "shit we can do that?"
Husky: Nope, not playing this game with you anymore Mark...
what a bright boy he deserve a treat
My face hurts, this is the most appropriate video I've ever seen on this sub lol
Where are you going Fred?
Now those are some classy dogs 🧐
Collies "Break down in communication Sir, temporary shut down" Husky "What owner ?? where ?? who... lol
You are not the boss of me.
Border collies, the world’s smartest dogs!!
He was pissed at him too.
Seems about right for a Husky
Dammit Moon moon!
That’s very cute
Wow, such smart dogs! My very first dog was a border collie and he was very intelligent. I miss him.
He said get yo ass back over here 😂
Husky: cat software on dog hardware
They're like, "Dude, you gonna let him do that?"
Love how the collie took off his leash casually like it didn’t hold him to begin with.
It’s always the Husky.
BeShepparded
Omg this made me so happy
I had a Husky, and if you dropped the leash she was fucking gone. We've lost her for a few days one time but she always came back. They are quite adventurous.
Borders are like, hey you idiot, you've dropped the leash, and since your too dumb to pick it up... Husky said the same thing.
I grew up with Huskies, they are varying degrees of libertarian/anarchists. They don't need us, but if you're down to party, you're welcome to come along. I love them rotten.
The way the dog looks up at the walker at the end. 🥲
Putting Border Collies with a Husky has to be annoying for the Border Collies. They know what they are supposed to do and do it, the Husky is like a toddler not knowing anything.