COLLIES

Collie makes reference to many races of dog, that they have like Scotland origin. The exact origin of the name is uncertain, but it thinks that cabbage can come from the early Scot (l) (coal), that means black. Another explanation places to the Collie like a regional word of the Anglo-Saxon meaning something useful.

The high mountains of Scotland are the natural home of the Collie. The shepherds have used to this race like ovejeros dogs by centuries, but the modern forms of these races were developed in England at the end of the 1800. This early class of Collie is referred like the Scottish Collie in century XIX and principles of the XX. The Scottish collies were heavier and less desarrolados than the present dogs. The ancestors of the modern Collie were exhibited for the first time like “Scotch Sheep-Dogs” (Scottish ovejeros dogs) in 1860, in Birmingham, England, in a canine exhibition.