The first collie regsitered  with the AKC, in 1885.

• Lassie
• Colleen from Road Rovers
• Jessie, the dog from the satirical novella Animal Farm by George Orwell, is portrayed as a Border Collie in the 1999 film version
• Laddie from The Simpsons
• Flo & the other puppies in All Dogs Go to Heaven
• Blanco, pet of Lyndon Johnson
• Reveille, official mascot of Texas A&M University
• Lad of Sunnybank, from the series of novels by Albert Payson Terhune
• Wilson of the 1984 Manga series (and 1986 Anime) by Yoshihiro Takahashi, Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, and ex-circus dog.
• Fly and Rex, Border Collies from the movie Babe, and the original book The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith.
• Thunder and Lightning, Granny Aching’s near-telepathic sheepdogs in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel The Wee Free Men and its sequels.
• Laddie, an extremely dense but photogenic film-collie in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Moving Pictures; a satire on too-perfect film-dogs such as Lassie.
• Murray the dog of Paul Buchman & Jamie Buchman in the TV series Mad About You

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Born in the late 1860s, Old Cockie is one of the first well-known collies and is credited for stamping his type on the ancestors of today’s American rough collies. It is also believed that he introduced the genes for the gorgeous sable colors present in the collie.

The drivers, a couple with a large breeding farm in Alaska was moving their animals to Arizona, were charged with neglect and had to await their trial. Meanwhile the collies were still considered their “property”. The Shelby, Montana city officials feared what would happen to the dogs, especially since the small town did not have the resources to care for so many sick animals.

Texas A&M University’s official mascot is none other than a purebred American Collie. The first Reveille was a black & white stray mutt. Several students returning from a party found her and smuggled her into the dorms. The next morning, a bugler played “Reveille” causing the little dog to bark - and assigning her a permanant name. Although pets were against the rules, everyone fell in love with her. The next football season, she was named mascot.

There have been 7 Reveille’s since, with the most current being a registered collie who began her duties on May 12, 2001.

The most famous of Albert Payson Terhune’s collies at Sunnybank. Lad is also the subject of Terhune’s first novel about dogs entitled “Lad: A Dog”, published in 1919.

Lassie is a fictionalized sable & white rough girl collie character who has been beloved for more than half a century and depicted in books, movies, cartoons, and television shows. The most famous Lassie parts have been in the movie “Lassie, Come Home”, her 1930s & 1940s adventures on the radio, and the 17 year television series “Lassie” which began it’s run in 1957.

The first Lassie was played by a collie male named “Pal”. There have been 9 generations of Pal’s decendants to play Lassie since, all of which have been male. It is said that Lassie was played by a male in the television series so that the children co-staring with him could grow up and Lassie would still look like a good sized dog in comparison (female collies are smaller than the male).