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Rough Collie

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dog breed

Key facts

Other names
Collie Long-Haired Collie
Origin
United Kingdom
Height
Males
Coat
long double coat
Colour
colour-headed white blue merle, sable merle, double merle sable, mahogany sable, shaded sable tri-coloured

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Dog (domestic dog)

The Rough Collie or Long-Haired Collie is a British breed of long-coated herding dog of medium to large size. It is identical to the Smooth Collie in all respects but the length of the coat. Dogs of both breeds were bred for herding sheep in Scotland. In the twenty-first century the Rough Collie is commonly kept as a companion dog, or may be bred for showing. The recognised coat colours are sable or merle in various shades, tri-coloured or colour-headed white.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rough Collie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.