@RickiTarr I used to think that too, until my wife (then in her 30s) met her biological mother and her extended family! They were all so exactly like each other!! My wife grew up in a family of engineers/scientists and her bio fam are artists and teachers; which she is as well. Plus I’ve noticed tons of idiosyncratic behavioral traits she shares solely with the bio fam and not the adoptive fam. Very curious! So, yeah, maybe!
@RickiTarr A woman in my running group has a herding dog that tries to keep everyone together. Her husband runs on a narrow strip of dirt along the bike path and it drives Murphy (the dog) crazy
@RickiTarr you should see my collie if more than just me walks him. Drives him to distraction trying to keep us together and going in what he imagines to be the right direction. He's only ten months so if I fancied a change of lifestyle I'm sure it wouldn't take that much more effort to train him to herd properly.
@RickiTarr I grew up with a collie who had powerful herding instincts. It drove him to distraction that my sister and I liked to play away from one another at opposite ends of the yard.
He always loved it when I told him to go get the chickens. He’d round them up and bring them to me. He got pretty mad at me the first time I took him to the beach. There was a flock of seagulls out on a sandbar. I told him to go get the chickens and he ran down to round them up for me. He was unimpressed when they all flew away. He never fell for that trick again.
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