Border collies with drive will try and her almost anything. On our morning walk, Fate saw a baby bird just a few feet ahead and went into her herding crouch. The bird watched Fate and pecked away at some seeds on the ground. Every time Fate got close, the bird hopped away. Border collies like Fate are herders, but not really hunters. The chase-kill prey drive has been bred out of most of them, at least the kill part. Fate tried to get around the baby bird, but she didn’t go for that and flew up into a tree.

The bird kept up with us as we walked up the hill, I think the bird liked having Fate around. Fate eventually gave up and tried to herd a chipmunk, she sailed off into the meadow hopping up and down. That didn’t work out either. A good thing we have sheep.