{"id":1454,"date":"2016-04-28T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2016-04-29T03:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:06:32","slug":"the-best-border-collie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"The Best Border Collie Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wherever our children go on our franch, so goes our border collie. \u00a0Our kids love to take their new chicks out of their brooder and play with them in the backyard grass. \u00a0And our border collie Sassy is always nearby\u2026watching, herding, waiting&#8230; One recent spring afternoon, instead of getting a pat on the head from a child, our children, to be silly, carefully placed a chick on the top of her head. \u00a0You\u2019d think that would\u2019ve ended badly? \u00a0It didn\u2019t. \u00a0Our high-energy border collie actually stayed very still. \u00a0She would move her head slowly around as though she was being careful not to unbalance the chick as our children\u00a0continued to play with the rest of the clutch of chicks before her. \u00a0The chick on her head actually seemed quite content and chirped quietly. \u00a0I asked the children if they thought that means we\u00a0have the best chick ever or the best border collie ever? \u00a0Of course, they said, &#8220;Both!&#8221; \u00a0But, the chick was only a week old so it didn\u2019t know any better and\u00a0likely thought\u00a0that sitting on the top of a dog\u2019s head is what life is all about. \u00a0And\u00a0Sassy is a border collie, and well, border collies eat chicks. \u00a0So, I said it&#8217;s Sassy that&#8217;s the best ever. \u00a0This was confirmed a week later when my mother and father came for a week-long visit and my mother said out of nowhere, \u201cSassy is a good dog.\u201d \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t believe my ears. \u00a0In disbelief, I said &#8220;What?&#8221; even\u00a0though I had clearly heard what she said. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Simply put, dogs are not \u201cman\u2019s best friend\u201d to her. \u00a0She does not like them. \u00a0The funny thing is that as much as my mother dislikes dogs is as much as dogs seem to like her. \u00a0Sassy was very fond of her; she would watch intently and wait patiently for her at our\u00a0gated entrance whenever my mother\u00a0went out for her daily walks. \u00a0Upon returning, my mother\u00a0would give Sassy a quick pat on the head as she walked up the long driveway\u00a0with Sassy walking happily beside her. \u00a0And that&#8217;s the best\u00a0the best Border Collie ever\u00a0will ever get from her. \u00a0But, it means she&#8217;s one really special dog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1876.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1456\" src=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1876.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1876\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1876.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1876-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1876-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1876-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1876-676x507.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever our children go on our franch, so goes our border collie. \u00a0Our kids love to take their new chicks out of their brooder and play with them in the backyard grass. \u00a0And our border collie Sassy is always nearby\u2026watching, herding, waiting&#8230; One recent spring afternoon, instead of getting a pat on the head from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}