Red often runs right into the back door in his hurry to get to work. He ran over a chicken this afternoon when I yelled “come, bye” but she squawked and survived.  This morning, at the chiropractor, I stepped into the bathroom and when I came out Red was gone. Where is he?, I asked Caitlin, the receptionist. Oh, she said he went into one of the other examining rooms to visit the woman who he met here in the waiting room. I knocked on the door, and it opened and Red came skittering out.

He seems to be developing a friendship with Lulu, one of our donkeys.  Other dogs just do not do this. She joins him when he is watching the sheep, and he doesn’t seem to notice. But more and more they are together and Lulu seems to love watching Red herd the sheep. Where is this friendship going? Border collies are wonderfully strange, they live inside of their own heads and hear and see things we will never hear or see.