Blue Moon Guirmere Links
Blue Moon Guirmere Working Border Collies
Imported UK ISDS and US working lines, pups and stud service
Registry Information
ISDS International Sheep Dog Society
Founding registry for the border collie since 1906 located in the UK.
American Border Collie Association ABCA
Largest registry for the border collies in the USA
Australian Working Border Collie Registry AWBC
Registry for working border collies in Australia
Interesting, Funny or Informative Sites
The Truth about the Border Collies
Humor about border collies and their owners.
Little Hats
Great site for newbies to herding!
ISN International Sheepdog News
Excellent magazine from the UK
List of breeders and trial information.
Border Collie Museum
Site with history and lore and interesting information.
Black Dog Farm
Huge number of links about everything
to do with border collies and more.
Purebred Dogs into the Twenty First Century
A must read if you are concerned about the genetic health of our dogs.
Agility
Power Paws
Web site of Nancy Guyes and Jim Basic, California USA
C Spot Win Agility
Stacy Peardot, Colorado USA
Paws on the Wind Sports Dog Training
Ann Croft in SanDiego, California USA
Blue Moon Sports Dog and Sheepdog Training
Australian based, agility, herding and flyball
Border Collie Rescue
Border Collie Rescue have many fine border collies looking for homes,
please see these links for more information
Border Collie Rescue Australia
Blue Moon Guirmere Working Border Collies Home Page
Glenfillan Sheepdog Trials
Once it took the field
we forgot its ripsaw profile
and the tail barely a rope fray,
no rudder, and the whole
satchel-with-legs look of it
alongside the Sampsons
and Delilahs of the breed.
Locked in its work trance,
mind over sheep-fuddle,
streaking out low it collected
and bullied them as though
they were stray thoughts
of the shepherd who stood,
cap over brow, canny,
whistling his dog through all
the right moves: when
to charge, lie low, display
just the exact hint of threat
to back that big ewe down,
then go neat-footed, closing
the distance, adjusting
the angle, black-and-white
verb to the flock's blackfooted
milling.
How long after these canids
willingly approached our fires
did it take for some magus
to train one up to these workaday
marathons, this serious play
that involves everything from
pick-up-sticks to a log-roller's
quickstep over the backs
of Charolais built like a herd
of tractors?
Now it has queued
the flock up at the second gate,
walked them through it and home
again to that foxy whistler
who's swapped his Wellingtons
for soft Italian loafers today.
The dog cuts two out of the flock,
melds them in again, heads them
toward the pen while a beauty
without vanity shimmers unaware
of itself over the rough field,
shivers the spine as-applause
like a smattering of stock doves
flying-the white gate closes.
Brendan Galvin