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Black Bob was the name of a fictional Border Collie from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders; his 'owner' was Andrew Glenn, a bearded shepherd. Black Bob originally appeared as a text story in The Dandy on 25 November 1944; in that story, Black Bob follows his owner's nephew who is playing truant and tries to bring him back to school.
Border Collie: The Other Coast: Adrian Raeside: One of the family dogs. Koko the Pup English bulldog: Koko the Pup: Edgar Henry Banger: Anthropomorphic dog in a gag comics series, published by DC Thomson between 1939 and 1941. [59] Kolin Kelly generic Krazy Kat: George Herriman: A brickmaker. Kreeg mixed breed Sojourn
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The principal registry for Border Collies in the United States is the American Border Collie Association (ABCA), which is dedicated to the preservation of the traditional working dog. [40] The breed was also recognised in 1995 by the American Kennel Club (AKC) after occupying the AKC's Miscellaneous Class for over 50 years.
Chaser could identify and retrieve 1,022 toys by name, [5] which was the result of a years-long research effort initiated by Pilley on June 28, 2004. [6] Pilley documents the following milestones as Chaser’s vocabulary grew over time: 50 words at 5 months, 200 words at 7.5 months, 700 words at 1.5 years, and 1,000+ at 3 years.
The Dog, the Border Collie of the comic strip Footrot Flats. Colleen, a female collie in Road Rovers. Nana, a female Border Collie in Snow Dogs; Shadow, collie from Enid Blyton's book Shadow the Sheepdog. The collie type is not identified in the text, but the illustrations in an early edition look vaguely like a border collie.
Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a 1940 full-length novel, Lassie Come-Home. Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fictional female collie of the same name, featured in the British writer Elizabeth Gaskell 's 1859 short ...
An alpine tree line is the highest elevation that sustains trees; higher up it is too cold, or the snow cover lasts for too much of the year, to sustain trees. [2]: 151 The climate above the tree line of mountains is called an alpine climate, [14]: 21 and the habitat can be described as the alpine zone. [15]