WHAT IS A PURE COLLIE?Do you mean a KC reg or a farm bred collie. its very hard to tell. Collies can come in lots of coat colours (that colour included), different coat types and lengths, prick ears, tipped ears dropped ears..could go on for ever with differences.Where the owners given any sort of paper work with this pup,and did they see the parents..its very diff to say but what ever it really is a cute little puppy.
at a guess i would say he could be - too young to say but nothing crys out that he isnt a reall sweety too
Looks like a blue Border Collie to me (although without papers or known parents, it would be considered a Working Sheepdog).
Looks like he could be a blue and white Border Collie. This was Skye, my KC reg Border Collie, at 7 weeks old
What a gorgeous pup As the others have said, its possible he's a blue, blue/white collie. Can i ask why you wonder if hes a cross? Jann xx
The rescue tag ,, ''Guava is a 9 week old collie cross puppy. Poor Guava was found abandoned on a beach with her sibling and her mum. She was luckily rescued by a wonderful person and is now waiting patiently for her perfect forever home. This lovely collie pup will need an ACTIVE home to keep her clever brain busy.''
They often call them collie crosses if not sure of parentage (no papers etc) ;-) He really is a lovely looking boy and i'm sure he'll get snapped up soon by a collie nut Jann xx
There is 3 of them .. I have sent the link to the person i had in mind to show him ... Your right though will not be there long ..
I'm stumped to think what he could be crossed with, if he's not 100% collie. He's blue - and that's a recessive colour, meaning BOTH parents must have been, or carried, that colour. It's a common colour in BCs but not too many other breeds. The only breeds I can think of aside from BC that can be blue, are so different that he'd look nothing like a BC! (for example: Great danes, Staffies, Weimaraners [same dilute gene], Dobermanns, Shar Pei.....)
Yes, I would say he's a pure collie and not a cross. Collies come in so many colours and shapes that a good deal arent what you would call breed standard but I still think it's very easy to tell a pure BC from a cross.
Very true - that was one I didn't think of! Having looked at the rescue website, Mum looks a real classic working Border Collie - no idea who dad was of course. The other two pups are black & white but one looks as though it is smooth-haired - unlike mum & the others. So, Dad would have been smooth haired, whatever breed he was, but carrying a longhaired gene. Of course there are plenty of smooth-coated BCs, so it doesn't rule out him being one.
I don't know a lot about collies but to me something about his head shape stands out as not being what I'd really expect of a collie if I'm honest, but tbh with rescue dogs he could be anything from a 3/4 collie to even three or four generations ago having another breed in, there will be no way of telling, but he does look sweet.
