Are there tailles BCs?

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I have a friend whose dog passed last year. The dog, Dooley, was a surrender at a shelter and came w/ AKC papers. I know it's not that hard to fake a registration, but I got to wondering...

Dooley was a very calm and quiet dog, a dedicated ratter, and very soft, but not shy. There was not so much as a stump of a tail, and I always suspected her of being an Aussie in disguise. Any body know of any naturally tailless BCs?

Here's a picture of Dooley. (She was always a fat dog!)

[Liz P]

Possible but unlikely. Odds are that she was an Aussie who fell closer to a BC like personality on the spectrum of possible Aussie personalities.

[desertranger]

There are enough Tri Aussies here to make people confuse them with Jin. Never seen a tailess BC. That would throw off there balance.

[JaderBug]

Tail-less Border Collie... isn't that essentially (with other exceptions) what a McNab is??? (I've always had kind of a hard time understanding what's special about a McNab vs. Border Collie, despite using the search feature on here numerous times)

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Tail-less Border Collie... isn't that essentially (with other exceptions) what a McNab is??? (I've always had kind of a hard time understanding what's special about a McNab vs. Border Collie, despite using the search feature on here numerous times)

 

Thanks for the input! I did some poking around and came up with this website:

 

http://www.legacyconnemaras.com/McNabHistory.html

 

It seems that Mc Nabs are sometines tailless, but not exactly BCs. Interesting reading...

[JohnLloydJones]

Never seen a tailess BC. That would throw off there balance.

 

I believe that the docked tail is what gives aussies that typical "sproing" when they run. As for a tailless BC -- it would probably be automatically assumed to be an aussie. I presume a natural bob tail could occur naturally, but I've never actually heard of one. I know one McNab that the owner insists is a natural bob tail -- I'm not sure how you would be able to tell the difference unless you saw the pup newly whelped.

[ShoresDog]

You can indeed tell -- the vertebrae all of a sudden stop, and there is scarring on the stumpy end when a BC's tail has been cut off. My Daisy has a docked tail (not by me! she's a rescue), and my vet tells me she can tell that it was cut off. Poor Daisy!

[desertranger]

Found a few images but not enough to tell there's a difference.

[toney]

There have been several "tailless" topics over the course of the last few years. You can do a search, if you are interested, but tailless border collies, while rare, are possible- due to simple accident prior to birth- another pup pressing against the tail area and preventing development, or a mother dog biting the tail off at birth. Both tailless dogs I have known are called...what else? Bob.