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Last weekend I went down to the Irvine Animal Shelter adoption event to drop something off to the BCR group. One of the dogs at Collie rescue really caught my eye:

fascinating collie coat!

He looks like someone stuck a Lassie head onto a Samoyed body! Sweet boy, and apparently his ears/hearing and eyes/sight are just fine!

Also, while checking something on Google Maps, I discovered I managed to (sort of) photobomb the street view shot:

me

Somehow I managed to miss a car with the google rig strapped to the roof tooling around the street. But that's definitely me standing by my car. In a geeky way, this is almost as neat as when the satellite shot caught Frieda (my old husky) on the driveway.

Date: 2012-12-04 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lordgloria.livejournal.com
Your Friendly Neighborhood Dog Know-It-All here! The collie is a lovely example of the colour phase known a "white." I had a collie when I was a 'teen who was a sable like Lassie (his name was Seaside Sunny Bonnie Prince Laddie.) They also come in tri-color and merle.

Date: 2012-12-05 10:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furtech.livejournal.com
Sables are my favorite rough-collie color: all those years of Lassie. I'm also loving the look of the smooth sables-- like Calicougar's Cody.

Date: 2012-12-05 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lordgloria.livejournal.com
Smooth Collies are so elegant. Sables are my favourite colour phase, too (though I admit to liking Collies in any colour!) My mother had sable Collies when she was a girl.

Date: 2012-12-04 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com
Sometimes I think I want a CHW (color-headed white) collie, and then I think about how often I have to wash my black ones. Nope nope nope.

Date: 2012-12-05 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furtech.livejournal.com
"Color-headed white"-- I had never heard the term! Wow...it really is a striking coat. But I agree about the grooming: with the hikes we take, he'd look like a sable most of the time from the grime.

Date: 2012-12-04 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wyoon.livejournal.com
Wow.. Neat collie

Date: 2012-12-05 01:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gilmorelion.livejournal.com
*mad-scientist voice*

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! The head-transplant is a SUCCESS!!

*lightning and thunder crashing*

Date: 2012-12-06 06:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c-eagle.livejournal.com
Doggie dipped in bleach... yikes! :D

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