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Hi everyone! I am new to the forums and happy to see such a wealth of information on BCs on the intertubes. I had a smooth coat border collie that I got from a cattle ranch in Eastern Oregon. She passed away in 2011, but I was lucky to have her for 16.5 years. I am looking to adopt another smooth coat border collie pup sometime over the next year, to raise as a companion. We will do a lot of outdoor activities. I like the wipe-and-go smooth coat for convenience year round, but in my experience the short dense coat fares MUCH better than long hair when outside in snow. That can be as much as 2/3 of the year in Alaska, where I intend to move back in the future. I had an australian mix that had a light-density rough coat (she also passed in 2011 , at 13.5 years ) and she: became a silly morose soggy dog in the rain would get colder quicker in the winter than my smooth coat BC would accumulate pitiful hard snowballs on her underside unless she wore a jacket (she was not thrilled about that) endured me clipping her paw hair so snow didn't clump in between her toes, OR had to wear booties (THAT did not go over well), OR had to wear vaseline in between her toes (not fun for either of us) I loved my aussie and we managed her lustrous hair problem. However, I was thinking that perhaps I should avoid the whole snow/rain discomfort issue and stick to smooth coats in the future. I live in Seattle and I am wondering does anyone know of any breeders of smooth coat BCs within the Pacific Northwest? Thank you for your time, P
