With working collies you will need to make sure the nieces respect the dog(s) and its/their boundaries. Collies have an instinctual lightening snap. If you want a dog that would never ever ever snap at a child under any amount of provocation, don't get a collie.
And on that vein... I
wish tourists didn't feel compelled to approach my working collies
. Bad enough if the dogs are on the ground, but some of them will approach a dog on the back of the quad bike.
It really makes me seethe - which I have to conceal, as if the dogs picked up that vibe, I'd have a problem for sure!
Honestly - you wouldn't approach a dog in a car with an open window, so why do people think it's safe or sensible to approach a collie on the back of a quad bike?!!
If the dog doesn't want the attention (and most such people seem completely unable to read collie body language
), the dog has only two options. 1. Bite. 2. Run away. Mine so far have always taken the latter option - but most often when this happens I am stopped at a gate while I open or close it. So now I have my collie dog on the road, scared and running away and at risk of being hit by a car and/or causing an accident.
Sorry, must be the sleep deprivation making me even more of a grumpy old woman than usual.