Chickentrain's Dog Q&A

I need to help finding a breed again! So things have changed and I am no longer getting a Samoyed. I now need a psychiatric assistance/service dog, I will probably be looking at breed rescues so I don’t want something too uncommon, but I also don’t want a breed that has too many really bad health issues.

What I need:
60cm tall at minimum
Not too destructive (I need to be able to skip a day of lots of doggy activities with out it destroying things)
Gets a long with cats
Be able to be trained as a service/assistance dog

Dog breeds I am looking in to:
Rough/smooth collie (Not sure they are what I want)
Bernes mountain dog (worried about health issues)


Another YES for the Collie. I've had them and worked with them and well bred ones are calm and intuitive of their handler's needs, once past the puppy stage.

There is a website for the American Working Collie Association that has stories of the many jobs collies can do. In particular, this story of an assistance collie is relevant to your situation and appeared in our breed magazine. It is just so touching:

http://www.awca.net/freqflier.htm

And the rest of Cole's story:
http://www.awca.net/cole.htm

By the way, I have not found collies to be particularly barky as far as herding breeds go. Farm collie types, yes, Shelties doubly YES (which is what I have now), but not collies.
 

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