Smooth Collie

The Smooth Collie is generally a sociable, easily trained family dog.

The Smooth Collie is a breed of dog developed originally for herding.

With the Queen's interest, it became fashionable to own Smooth Collies.

The Smooth Collie is slightly longer than it is tall, with a level back and a deep chest.

The early history of the Smooth Collie, like that of many dog breeds, is largely a matter of speculation.

Both the rough and smooth collies are double-coated with Smooths having a shorter or "smooth" outer coat.

Dogs : Deep River Joy Ride, best in breed among smooth collies, not even considered for the Thalberg Award.

Both Rough and Smooth collies are descended from a localised variety of herding dog originating in Scotland and Wales.

The Scotch Collie breed consists of both the Rough Collie and the Smooth Collie.

Collies range in trainability from the "average" Rough and Smooth Collie, to the arguably most biddable of all breeds, the Border Collie.

AKC Collie, separated into two varieties or breeds: Rough Collie and Smooth Collie.

Some collie breeds (especially the Rough Collie and the Smooth Collie) are affected by a genetic defect, a mutation within the MDR1 gene.

The Shetland Sheepdog, Rough Collie, Smooth Collie and Old English Sheepdog are more popular as family companion dogs.

In order to mute their dingo characteristics and make the dogs easier to handle, further crosses were made with Scottish smooth collies, producing speckled red and blue dogs that were often born tailless.

The Smooth Collie today is considered a variety of the same breed as the Rough Collie in the United States, meaning that they can interbreed and some statistics are kept only for "Collie" rather than for both varieties individually.

Some dog breeds (especially the Rough Collie, the Smooth Collie, the Shetland Sheepdog, and the Australian Shepherd), though, have a high incidence of a certain mutation within the MDR1 gene; affected animals are particularly sensitive to the toxic effects of ivermectin.

It was sometime during the mid 1900s that the use of the prefix Scotch was generally dropped as the breed had become extremely popular and the prefix Rough or Smooth differentiated the two coat types as "Rough Collie " and "Smooth Collie."

Certain types of collie (for example Rough Collies, Smooth Collies, Shetland Sheepdogs and some strains of Border Collie and other breeds) have been bred for many generations as pets and for the sport of conformation showing, not as herding dogs.