2shelties
Posted : 3/2/2008 3:10:09 PM
I only have one BC and he's the first one I've had any experience with, so take this with a grain of salt, cause I may have just gotten lucky, but....my BC is awesome. He's no more active or crazy than any other dog I've had, and in fact he's calmer than my shelties. He's great with my kids, not herdy at all, and not neurotic, which was my impression of BC's. He needs moderate mental and physical exersize, but I don't have to entertain him 24/7 or run 5 miles a day with him, he's very velcro and is very happy to just be with me throughout my day and do what I do. We take a daily walk and a couple times a week, weather permitting, we go to the park for the dogs to run off leash, play ball, etc. Some training sessions here and there, some cuddling time, and he's a happy guy. What many people might find annoying is that he is right there, all the time. If I get up, he gets up, if I talk, he looks at me, when I wake up in the morning, he's staring at me. He understands words and entire phrases...yesterday morning, I said to DH, "I'm going to go feed the dogs in a minute", and he got up and went to wait by his dish. Normally when I feed them, I say to them, "Lets go eat", so I was impressed that he figured out "feed the dogs" meant he was going to "eat".
Basically, he doesn't need tons of physical exersize, he just wants to be part of what's going on. Oh, and I live in the burbs too with a tiny unfenced yard.