Hope springs eternal in the mind of the border collie. Winter doesn’t matter, cold doesn’t matter, ice doesn’t matter, heat doesn’t matter, exhaustion doesn’t matter. Even just doing work doesn’t matter.

Border collies do not have an off switch. Every time she goes outside, Fate rushes to the gate and watches the house. She has absolute faith that somebody, anybody, will eventually come outside and let her into the pasture, where she can follow her sheep.

She’ll sit there all day if she can. She will never go into the road, get hungry, fall asleep. Her eyes will be riveted on the door, she is willing it to open, and eventually, it does. Border collies never lose faith in work, it is always around the corner.