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Collie Trivia
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We have gathered Collie Trivia from around the Internet and from books. If you have any more trivia to add, please send it in an email with refreence information to holly@rainybank.com
The name of the dog that played Lassie in the original Lassie Come home was a male named Pal (1)
Collies can have severe reactions to several common drugs (3)
- Immodium
- Loperamide
- Ivermectin
Collies come in two coat types, Rough and Smooth. Rough Collies have longer coats, Smooth have shorter coats (2)
The rough collie was used in the Scottish highlands for herding sheep
The smooth collie was used in the lowlands to drive sheep to market
There can be both rough and smooth collies in the same litter
Collies come in four colors
- Tri-Color(Black, white, brown)
- Sable (Brown and white)
- Blue (Gray, black, white, brown)
- White (White body, head one of the three other colors)
Since the original Lassie film star in 1943, there have been eight official Lassies
Lassie was always played by a male because males are larger and have more coat.
The original rough collie color was all black
June Lockhart, star of Lost In Space, played Timmy’s mother in the Lassie television series.
Blue Merle Collies were originally called Tortoise Shell because of the marbled color
There are many theories about the origin of the name Collie. The most popular are:
- They herded Scottish black faced sheep known as Colley sheep.
- The original Collies were all black and the Anglo-Saxon word for black is Coll so these were Collie dogs.
The first Lassie story was published in the Saturday Evening Post on December 17, 1938.
The first Lassie novel was “Lassie Come Home” by Eric Knight
In the 1940s and 50s several Lassie movies were made:
- Lassie Come Home (1943)
- Son of Lassie (1945)
- Courage of Lassie (1946)
- Hills of Home (1948)
- The Sun Comes Up (1949)
- Challenge to Lassie (1949)
- The Painted Hills (1951)
- Lassie’s Great Adventure (1963)
- Lassie: A Christmas Tail (1963)
- The Magic of Lassie (1978)
- Lassie: Best friends are Forever (1994)
- Lassie (2005)
The original Lassie television series ran from 1954 to 1974
Lassie Come Home (1943) stared now famous actors Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor as children.
The Lassie Radio Show aired from 1946 until 1949
Lassie Television Series:
- 1954 to 1973 Lassie
- 1972 Lassie’s Rescue Rangers (animated)
- 1989 to 1991 The New Lassie
- 1997 to 1999 Lassie
- 2011 Lassie the Animated Series
Lassie Made for TV Movies:
- Lassie: Flight of the Cougar (1967)
- The Adventures of Neeka (1968)
- Peace is Our Profession (1970)
- Well Of Love (1970)
- Sound of Joy (1972)
- Lassie and the Spirit of Thunder Mountain (1972) animated
- Lassie: A New Beginning (1978)
- The Story of Lassie (1994)
Lassie Books:
- Lassie Come Home
- Lassie
- Lassie: A Dog’s Life
- The Lassie Method
- Magic of Lassie
- Painted Hills
- The Story of Lassie
- Lassie: A Christmas Story
- Challenge to Lassie
- The Sun Comes Up
- Lassie: The Prize
- Forest Ranger Handbook
- Lassie and the Lost Little Sheep
- Lassie’s Forest Adventure
- Lassie: Rescue in the Storm
- Lassie and the Mystery of Blackberry Bog
- Lassie and the Secret of Summer
- Lassie: Forbidden Valley
- Lassie: Treasure Hunter
- Lassie: The Wild Mountain Trail
- Lassie and the Mystery of Bristlecone Pine
- Lassie and the Secret of the Smelter’s Cave
- Lassie: Lost in the Snow
- Lassie: Trouble at Panter’s Lake
- Lassie: Adventure in Alaska
- Lassie and the Shabby Sheik
- Lassie: Old One Eye
- The Adventures of Lassie
- Lassie and her day in the Sun
- Lassie and her Friends
- Lassie and the Big Clean-Up Day
- Lassie and the daring rescue
- Lassie and the Lost Explorer
- Lassie Shows the way
- Lassie: The Great Escape
- Hooray for Lassie!
- Lassie and the Cub Scout
- Lassie and the Deer Mystery
- Lassie and the Firefighters
- Lassie and the Kittens
- Lassie Finds a Friend
- Lassie’s Brave Adventure
- Lassie: The Busy Morning
- Lassie: The Sandbar Rescue
- Lassie’s Long Trip
- Lassie to the Rescue
- Lassie: Hayloft Hideout
- Lassie Under the Big Top
- Lassie: Treasure at Eagle Mountain
- Lassie: Danger at Echo Cliffs
- The Puppy Problem
- Digging Up Danger
- The Big Blowup
- Water Watchdog
- Skateboard Dare
- Dangerous Party
A new Lassie animated series is scheduled for broadcast by ABC in 2011.
Texas A&M University has had a Rough Collie named Reveille as a mascot for it's football team since 1966. As of 2008, there have been eight Reveille's.
Colleen was the name of a female Rough Collie in the animated series Road Rovers from 1996
Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon (played by Mel Gibson) has a Collie named Sam that has appeared in all of the Lethal Weapon movies.
President Calvin Coolidge had four collies
- Boston Beans
- Rob Roy
- Prudence Prim
- Bessie
President Lynden B. Johnson owned a White Rough Collie named Blanco
President Herbert Hoover owned a Scotch Collie named Glen
Ken-L-Ration sponsors a dog hero search since 1954. Several Collies have won this award
- 1954 - The first dog honored was Tang, a Collie that pushed two children out of the way of an automobile
- 1957 – Blaze, a white faced collie saved a young girl from an enraged sow that was mauling her
- 1961 – Duke saved a girl from burning to death when her skirt caught fire from a back-yard trash fire
- 1964 – Buddie herded goats from a burning barn
- 1966 – Hero saved a two-year old from being trampled by a horse
- 1989 – Buddy alerted a disabled grandmother to a house fire
Collies have been used as sentry, messenger and ambulance dogs for the military around the world since 1904.
Blaze the Wonder Collie was a three part comic published from 1949 to 1950
The color of Lassie as described in Eric Knight’s original book, Lassie Come Home, was tri-color, not sable. It is in paragraph 5 of the first chapter.
“they all agreed that if a finer dog than Sam Carraclough’s tricolor collie had ever been bred in Greenall Bridge, then it must have been long before they were born.”
Collie stories by Albert Payson Terhune (this is not a comprehensive list of Albert Payson Terhune books):
- Lad: A Dog (1919)
- Bruce (1920)
- Buff: A Collie (1921)
- His Dog (1922)
- Further Adventures of Lad (1922) Republished as: Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1941)
- Lochinvar Luck (1923)
- Treve (1924)
- The Heart of a Dog (1924)
- Wolf (1925)
- Najib (1925)
- Treasure (1926) Republished as: The Faith of a Collie (1949)
- My Friend The Dog (1926)
- Gray Dawn (1927)
- The Luck of the Laird (1927) Republished as: A Highland Collie (1950)
- Lad of Sunnybank (1929)
- A Dog Named Chips (1931)
- The Way of a Dog (1932)
- The Book Of Sunnybank (1934) Republished as: Sunnybank: Home of Lad (1953)
- Real Tales of Real Dogs (1935)
- True Dog Stories (1936)
- The Critter And Other Dogs (1936)
- The Terhune Omnibus (1937) Republished as The Best-Loved Dog Stories Of Albert Payson Terhune in 1954.
- A Book of Famous Dogs (1937) Republished as: Famous Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1937)
- Grudge Mountain (1939) Republished as: Dog of the High Sierras'' (1951)
- Dogs (1940)
- Loot! (1940) Republished as: Collie to The Rescue (1952)
- Wallace: Glasgow's Immortal Fire Dog (1961)
- Great Dog Stories (1994) Collects five stories from The Heart of a Dog and five from My Friend The Dog.
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