International Sheepdog Society

We discovered that our breeder has registered her pedigree with the International Sheep Dog Society. I never knew there was such a thing but there is lots of interesting reading at : http://www.isds.org.uk/

They have some lovely Collie themed presents as well as dog whistles etc for sheep dog trials.

Their information about dog names says that the Society permits the use of only one, simple working name for a registered dog.  Working on the fields, perhaps with more than one dog, a shepherd will be able to cope with names such as "Ben", "Meg", "Cap" or "Moss".  But names such as "Philip", "Flossie","Pretty Boy", etc. would be impossible to work with. They are happy to accept non-English language names.  The test is that the names should, ideally, be single-syllable.  This is the same advice we were given by a relative who had had a collie but unfortunately we had already named her. So lets hope the name is OK !  I am only planning to have one dog so hopefully the name will work out. Once we got her we thought of some other names such as Mystic which would have been nice. Meg was a name we had in reserve as well.