When Border Collies are too gifted:
“My latest pastoral masterpiece captures the subversive interpretation of canine pathos of duplicity and diaphanous tension revealing a multilayered genius that illuminates my uncontrollable obsession with herding those #@!! sheep into a pen! They refuse to stay within the lines!”
“Should I grow a goatee? Or would that be too avant garde dog?”
A brush with genius, Susan S.
@ NTM: [not scornful] *snerk*
Hey, Big Boy…. do ya come by this place often? [wink, wink; nudge, nudge!!]
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS OMG I’m, like, so TO-tally imbecilic.
When I opened up CO, I saw NTM’s intro, about a different pic. Then the blasted ‘puter got all hung up. When I re-opened it, the new item about doggeh art wuz there and I DI-unt SEE that it’s a PYRIT gem.
*runs to the corner and kicks a dirt-clod in shame*
*points and laughs at Fird*
(not really)
HEhehehehehe! Silly Girl!
(Hmmmm…. this corner’s really pretty comfortable
)
I often think that a Pyrit post is actually by NTMTOM. Maybe they’re related.
PS: “diaphanous tension” = especially elegant!!!
Border goatee? Dicey proposition.
“….that illuminates my uncontrollable obsession with herding those #@!! sheep into a pen! They refuse to stay within the lines!”
ROFL!
The perfect characterization of the Border Collie: really smart and really OBSESSED!
Those $%&* sheep are grass with this little darling! Love the doggie.
In the first photo puppy has a ” Did I do that?” look on his face.
In the second photo, puppeh is all like, “Coming, Mom!”
Jean Arf, master of Baa-Baa-ism
(people used to flock to his shows)
*groan**giggle*
*applause, applause*
What a gorgeous puppy!
That is not a Border Collie. It is a bi-black Shetland Sheepdog pup and quite adorable too. Never put it past a Sheltie to actually be painting a masterpiece with its paint brush. The saying amongst Sheltie owners is that if Lassie had been a Sheltie, Timmy never would have fallen down the well.
True! That little nosie is pointier than BC:s nose would be. Still, reminds my late bc as a puppy well enough to make me squee in delight and make grabby gestures in front of my laptop.
Ok, a black-and-white caterpillar would probably have similar effect. I’m as obsessed as my dog used to be…
Or if he had, Lassie wouldn’t have had to run back to get help
yes, yes, yes, Timmie would have stayed where Lassie (the Sheltie) put him (or at least barked him to death!) I know from personal experience, my Sheltie Peanut just never shut’s up when we are outside playing…he even goes bananas barking and herding the lawnmower!
“barked him to death” =
Wow, Susan L., thanks! I didn’t know about bi-black Shetland Sheepdogs! Cool.
I used to have a collie. Wonderful dog. She was so small people thought she was a big sheltie.
Bi-black? Hmm. That makes me sort of bi-curious, in a manner of speaking. No, really, I had to look that up (I don’t recommend it, you’ll get a lot of other results). So it’s sans tan.
Smartest dog we ever had was a collie/GS mix. Whip smart, she was. Just a really clever girl. Of course, the stupidest dog we ever had was her daughter, so… I don’t know what that means. I’ll shut up now.
AND he did my taxes. Got me a honkin’ refund, too. Thanks, Genius Dog!
Those %#$@ sheep are a waste of my time, but I can’t resist herding them!
Wait is that Sheltie playing D&D (see blue dice on first pic) while painting?
Genius!
That teeny tongue in the top photo simply slays me!
Put me on the waiting list for one of this pup’s early works.
Yes! Yes! I call for a tongue-hance… please?
…must bury nose in puppy fuzz…snorgle round fuzz-bound belleh… aargh, floofeh waggleh tail…
*SPLORT* (it’s all over for me, folks)
I am slayed by this cutie!
I see he/she has adorable long eyelashes which simply are the icing on this adorable masterpiece…
“sniff sniff sniff” (“whatcha doin’?”)
“snif–WOOF!!” (“Painting–SQUIRREL!!”)
“woof? wurf wuf baroo?” (“Squirrel? with three noses?”)
Such a cute puppy!!!!
ROFLMAO @ Pyrit. those rasam frasam sheep!
THAT DOG IS SO INCREDIBLY ADORABLE I COULD JUST DIE!!!! (Unfortunately, if I died, I would miss a lot of my life, so I’m trying not to.)
What’s with the “Rate this” bit? Somehow this seems to contradict the whole CO philosophy of generously embracing teh Qte in all its many and varied forms.
I have a wonderful photograph of my grandmother in 1920 with her pet sheltie sitting next to her. It is a formal studio photograph, and my grandmother has just a hint of a smile and her arm over the dog’s “shoulders” but the sheltie is grinning like a madman. She was 12.
I would love to see this pic. Sheltie’s are the most amazing dogs and I love my to death (he’s 11).
Dogger… lol
i guess the term dogging hasn’t quite caught on in the US.
not in public anyway.
Ha! Oh, Sharpy.
BWAHAHAHA!
Shelties know how to have a good time!
That baby also knows how to have a good time!
That Border Collie might be so cute that it’s painful to cast your gaze upon it.
My bordercollie has no sheep to herd, so he herds my cat.
My cat has been plotting his death for months.
OH MY GOD GNWEIOGYGQWNIMXOQIENGROLSQUEE! I want to cuddle it!