can border collies be good house pets.?

Question

with an acre of land which include a pool for it to swim in.
and are their border collies without the herding instict

Answer 1

Some BCs are extremely high energy. Mainly the American lines. To have such a dog and not give him jobs is, imo, not fair to the dog and can be a huge headache for the owner. I have seen many in pet homes and the owners were running themselves ragged trying to keep the dog busy enough. They need to have their energy focused on something.

If you want one, get one from English or Scottish lines, they are much more sane.

I think it is a shame the way American breeders have ruined this breed by making it into a psychotically busy animal.

Answer 2

All border collies are born with the herding instict...That has been breed into them...Border Collies to watch them herd a group of cattle is a beautiful thing to see...They are the smartes breed out of all the breed...About being a house pet,If you can train him not to get excited in the house,They would be excellent house pet...I have 1 mix breed: HE'S corgie/border collie and he also has the herding instict...I would think so,corgies are the smalles breed in the herding group and the shortes (THEY HAVE SHORT LITTLE LEG)...And he is very good in the house and very easy to train...Border collies and corgies are very smart and easy to train...But the border collie get bored very easy,If you don't keep them busy...Both are great dogs and their bonding is you a life time...

Clowmy

Answer 3

My in-laws had a border collie who was an inside dog for many years. Cloie did very well inside and was a good companion to them. She died last year of old age. The herding instict was never a problem for them

Answer 4

You have an ideal place for a border collie. Yes they will always want to herd, but mostly at this point he'll just try to herd you. They are smart, and extremely devoted. My Border collie is fun, playful, friendly and just way, way smart. And the way he looks at me? He makes me melt! They like having a job to do, Buster's job is to keep the younger dog on track, and he takes his responsibility very seriously.

Answer 5

I have three Australian Shepherds, they have a similar temperament to Border Collies. Training is the key factor, training, exercise, discipline and reward. Any dog will adapt to household living with the right training and level of exercise. If you're not willing to devote the time it takes for exercise and training, then get a less active dog, you'll both be happier.

Answer 6

You seem to have a great place for a border collie! Yes, all border collies have hearding instincts.
They're very smart dogs and need lots of things to keep them busy; if they don't have something to do, they will FIND something to do, and chances are, you won't like it! Haha! Just keep them busy, and give them lots of excersise and attention; they're very sociable dogs.

Answer 7

It sounds like you have a really good home for a border collie. Just remember they are super intelligent and need lots of mental stimulation as well as physical excersise. They excell at clicker training, targetting, agility etc. Check out this website.......
http://www.maryray.co.uk/freestyle.html

Answer 8

A homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same as another but with a different meaning – such as mean (verb – to intend) and mean (noun & adjective – average) – such words are both homophones and homographs. See OED and Chambers

Some sources state that homonym meanings must be unrelated (rather than just different), or that the words must have a different origin. Thus read (present tense) and read (past tense) would not be homonyms, whereas mean (unkind), mean (intend), and mean (average) would be.

Heteronyms (also sometimes called heterophones) are words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings (in other words, they are homographs which differ in pronunciation or, technically, homographs which are not homophones). For example, the homographs desert (abandon) and desert (arid region) are heteronyms (pronounced differently), but mean (intend) and mean (average) are not (Ie. they are pronounced the same, or are homonyms).

Capitonyms are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings when capitalised (and may or may not have different pronunciations) – for example, polish (to make shiny) and Polish (from Poland).

In derivation, homonym means "same name", homophone means "same sound", homograph means "same writing", heteronym (somewhat confusingly) means "different name", and heterophone means "different sound".

Significant variant interpretations include:

#Chambers 21st Century Dictionary [1] defines a homonym as "a word with the same sound and spelling as another, but with a different meaning" (italics added). Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [2] also says that a homonym is "one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning" (italics added), but appears to also give homonym as a synonym for either homophone or homograph.
#Cambridge Dictionary of American English [3] defines homonym as "a word that is spelled the same as another word but that does not have the same meaning" (the same as what above is called a homograph).
#The entry for homonym in The Encyclopaedia Britannica (14th Edition) states that homographs are "words spelt but not sounded alike", and homophones are "words alike only in sound [i.e. not alike in spelling]" (italics and comment added).
The Encarta dictionary [4] defines heteronym as "each of two or more words that are spelled the same, but differ in meaning and often in pronunciation" (italics added). The "Fun with Words" website [5] says that a heteronym is "One of two (or more) words that have the same spelling, but different meaning, and sometimes different pronunciation too" (in other words, what is called a homograph above).
Homonym has a specialised meaning in scientific nomenclature, see See also below. Homograph is sometimes used in typography as a synonym for homoglyph, and heteronym has a specialised meaning in poetry – see Heteronym (literature).

Further examples:-
A further example of a homonym which is both a homophone and a homograph is fluke. Fluke can mean-

A fish, and a flatworm.
The end parts of an anchor.
The fins on a whale's tail.
A stroke of luck.
All four are separate lexemes with separate etymologies, but share the one form, fluke. Similarly, a river bank, a savings bank, and a bank of switches share only a common spelling and pronunciation, but not meaning.

The first homophones that one learns in English are probably the homophones to, too, and two, but the sentence "Too much to do in two days" would confuse no one. (Note, however, when read with a natural rhythm in many dialects, to has a schwa and is not homophonous with too or two.)

There, their, and they're are familar examples, as are lead (the metal) and led (the verb past participle).
Moped (the motorized bicycle) and moped (the past tense of mope) are examples of homographs; they are not homophones, because they are pronounced differently.
In some accents, various sounds have merged in that they are no longer distinctive, and thus words that differ only by those sounds in an accent that maintains the distinction (a minimal pair) are homophonous in the accent with the merger. Some examples from English are:-

pin and pen in many southern American accents.
merry, marry, and Mary in many western American accents.
The pairs do, due and forward, foreword are homophonous in most American accents but not in most British accents.
The pairs talk, torque, and court, caught are distinguished in rhotic accents such as Scottish English and most dialects of American English, but are homophones in many non-rhotic accents such as British Received Pronunciation.
Homophones are sometimes used in message encryption to increase the difficulty in cracking the decryption code. In this case the clear text is altered prior to being encrypted and the decrypting party substitutes the homophones for their true meaning after decrypting the message

Many puns rely on homophones for their humor.

Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields. See also polysemy for a closely related idea.

Quote:-
His death, which happen'd in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton toll'd the bell
Thomas Hood, "Faithless Sally Brown"

hope this helps!

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

yes i had one at one time there pretty smart dogs