Help With Breed Guesses

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this is lady my bc/acd mix. their faces have similar colorings. and both also have almost identicall tick marks on their front legs hard to see on lady in the pic. but they also have very similar head shape. andthat dog is body type like lady use to be about 6 years ago :) prob not a good guess but it's a guess lol
 

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Border Collie/ACD mix or maybe a Border Collie crossed with a Border Collie mix. The face doesn't look Rough to me. Rough Collies have a distinctive face shape.
 

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Border Collie. Purebred, probably, though I wouldn't entirely rule out mixed with a collie. But, probably a collie would fill out the coat and give a little more depth to his body - at least the the mixes I've seen did.

No ACD - an ACD mix would almost certainly be smooth coated or much more moderated coat and the ticking should be heavier. Plus, ACDs are just heavier through the chest. Plus, there's no particular reason to look for ACD in this dog every feature can be explained by Border Collie genetics.

Sables tend to have that white spot on the head that is described as a sure mark of an ACD - there are only a couple pictures here, but you can see some sables at http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_ColorSable.html and http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_ColorSaddle.html
and for ticking http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_ColorTicked.html
 

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Border Collie. Purebred, probably, though I wouldn't entirely rule out mixed with a collie. But, probably a collie would fill out the coat and give a little more depth to his body - at least the the mixes I've seen did.

No ACD - an ACD mix would almost certainly be smooth coated or much more moderated coat and the ticking should be heavier. Plus, ACDs are just heavier through the chest. Plus, there's no particular reason to look for ACD in this dog every feature can be explained by Border Collie genetics.

Sables tend to have that white spot on the head that is described as a sure mark of an ACD - there are only a couple pictures here, but you can see some sables at http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_ColorSable.html and http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_ColorSaddle.html
and for ticking http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_ColorTicked.html

:hail:

By the way, I love that website.
 

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I would probably just play it safe and say border collie or border collie mix since you can't really know for sure.
 

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My MIL breeds collies so I see them all the time, rough and smooth. The first thing I said to myself was cute collie... LOL! I totally thought rough collie until I saw the ticking on the legs. So I think Rough Collie/Aussie mix. You can see outlines of the distinctive "mask" around the face that rough collies usually have.
 

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My vote is Rough Collie X Border Collie...somebody wanted a shepherds shepherd.
 

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I'll have to go with purebred Border Collie. If not, he's really close. He sorta reminds me of Jake's Saddle-Sable Dad, Lad.

Either way, that ticking on him has stolen my heart!
 

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Looks like a Border Collie to me. There might be a bit of something else in there, but I see BC. He's beautiful. :)
 

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Apparently someone on site has id'd him as purebred and I think he's going into foster care with BCR as we speak, so, hand over that popcorn, I win! And bless those folks in the Pacific NW, they rock. Apparently the dog's story is that he was given away as a youngster when the people who originally bought him "found out" they were moving to an apartment. As my friend put it, "Since Border Collies wither and die in apartments" he was shuffled off to the first convenient person.
 

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He's a beautiful dog. . .in structure AND markings. I'd have to agree with your shelter's guess.
 

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