Above, Sage (background) and Chance in early spring 2003


CGC
b. 11/30/02

We acquired Sage in the early spring of 2003. Sage was bred on a farm in Maine on the Canadian border. She came from working lines, though she was not registered. A single man bought her at 10 weeks old, and after having her for just a week, decided he couldn't take the energy level of a Border Collie puppy, and called Nathalie Vadim, a Border Collie rescue colleague in Maine. Nathalie took the pup, but called for help in fostering her. I took one look at that face, and I fell in love. The next day we met Nat in Portsmouth, and took Sage home.

Left, Sage and Clyde, early spring 2003. Right, Sage with Flash in the house.

Sage has more personality than any dog I have ever met. She is mischievous, and yet very bidable. If we hadn't retired from sheep farming by the time we got her, she would have made an excellent working dog. She has loads of "eye" and now uses it to herd Flash. Why she has chosen Flash as the object of her "eye" is unclear, but every day when we go out, Sage walks backwards in front of Flash, head down, fixated on him. When he gets close to her, she whirls around two or three times in front of him before moving on backwards. She has the quirkiness of the Border Collie in large amounts.

The five photos in the group above are Sage at about a year old.

In these photos, above, Sage is about 2 or 3 years old.
In the third photo she is with her full sister Folly (owned by Pat Kuchma of Connecticut), a year younger than Sage.
In the 4th photo she is with Chance, who was about 5 years old then.

The five photos above and the ones below were taken of Sage at 5 1/2 years old at the 2008 NEBCR Reunion.

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