A while ago, I wrote a blog titled "Herding Dog Scared by Sheep." To date, it's turned out to be one of the more widely read articles I've posted here at Presto Dog. It concerns the fact that our tri-color Collie named Dougie got spooked one day when he saw several sheep grazing in a park near where we used to live.

Recently, we've discovered that although this particular herding dog of ours doesn't seem to be interested in animals, he's taken some kind of an affinity to birds. When we go out to the back yard, Dougie can be seen gazing up to the skies in the hope that a bird will fly overhead. If one does, he'll immediately give chase, happliy barking all the time he's shooing it away.

We think he's really asking the birds to stop by and play with him but his presentation skills aren't that finely honed yet and he only succeeds in scaring them off.

So I guess the poor guy'll have to content himself with hanging out with his canine family here at the Presto Dog Phunny Pharm: Lyric, Lily, Declan and Maggie. These four dogs are all sable 'n white Shelties. I'm sure Dougie the Collie must sometimes feel like Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians. It must make him really introspective when we take him to dog shows where he gets to see even more (you guessed it) Shelties. But that's life as he knows it.