Beautiful dogs Pam. I love border collies. I have had a few and B/C crosses over the years.

Hi all, here's a pic of my alpaca with some of her mates. Lolly Pop is the one walking in front on the right.
I've never put a pic in a post before so I hope it works and isn't too big, sorry in advance if it is.

Cheers, Jules

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Your dogs are beautiful, Border Collies are so gentle.
Here is our family,
Missy , the border collie who was our working girl and is now gently retired, like us, and is 18 years old.
Jafaar, the Rottweiler who was our son's dog and is so special to us even though we have to keep her on the thin side because of her arthritus.
Reggie, the rabbit chaser, who is a mixture but thinks he is a Great Dane.
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sorry about the bad picture but they wouldn't pose for me
Marion

Meet our Golden Retrievers, Jewels, front, and hopefully in pup again, and Nugget at the back and a proud Dad.

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Then we have 2 of our birds, hand-raised cockatiels, Buddy, who is actually a female, and Olly a male who wonders why Buddy won't answer him when he says "What ya doing?". My son was practising taking photos when he took these.

Buddy

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Olly

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We have 2 standard poodles, the white one is KC she will be 11 xmas eve, and Tarot who is 12 and a half...and Mr 2 the corella who passed away last week....tina
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Tina, I can see why you miss him so much - he's georgeous. If you put any more photos of him on you're going to end up talking me into getting one :) my son has been trying to talk me into getting a bigger parrot for ages but I've been trying to put him off.

Thank you you lot its been great seeing peoples pets.
Thanks Jan border collies are the bees knees as far as Im concerned.
Jules you are the first person I have known to have a pet
alpaca !How did she get her name?
Marion welcome back! I was thinking of you at the concert did you have a good time? Missy looks delightful, old dogs are one of my favourite things.You dont get to be an old dog unless someone loved you. My Sally is getting up there she is 15 now.
Jafaar is a special dog to you of course (I can relate to your feelings for her) she does not look too thin to me.
Reggie would need to think he is a great dane to mix it with the big girls!
Goldhills your golden retrievers look fabulous, Jewels and Nugget are obviously more than friends!
It looks as if Buddy enjoys getting his picture taken.
Tina here KC has a nice smile and Tarot looks like a pop star from the 70s LOL!
What can I say about Mr2.. you must miss him terribly. Im sorry you lost him so young.
Any more? cheers pam

Hi YQ, Lolly Pop got her name because her mum's name is Poppy. Sally, my very good friend and the breeder we bought her from, likes to give the cria (babies) names that have something to do with their parents, and she likes sweet names too. She has others called Cuddle Pie, Miss Muffet, Sweet Pea, Sugar Plum, Mr Fudge, Bubbles, Tinkerbell and many others.She has about 50 at the moment but there are a few girls who are pregnant including my girl who is due in May. I can't wait.

Cheers, Jules

Jules, you are so lucky to have the Alpaca.
Does anyone at your place spin and weave the hair, it is so beautiful to work with.
We had Angoras and sheep so I had plenty of wool and mohair to spin but had to pay top price to get a bit of Alpaca hair.
Everyone has such well loved pet families it is good to see.
Nothing like coming home and being met with a wagging tail and a big grin of welcome from them.
Pam, the concert was just beautiful, they had 2 nights of concert so I did the dressing for one of them, amazing how so many quite young ladies can go from schoolgirls to ballet and tap dancers and take on another look completely.
I just love them all.
Marion