Allright, you dog lovers. I need help. I know that Border Collies are a recent breed, and that Lassie goes back at least to the forties. And I remember the Dumb sheep dog in the Warner Brothers cartoons who uttered that classic line, "Which way did he go?, Which way did he go?." English Sheep dogs go back further than Border Collies, I'm told. Someone said in another thread that shepherds only used sheep starting in the 6th or 7th century. I am real ignorant about the history of the use of dogs to heard or protect sheep. Can anyone educate me?

An unplowed field.

Jerry