Fate is not like the other children, she is a little bit crazy, maybe some ADD, a creative strain of autism, a brew of gentle wolf, part fox, part hound. She has a  sense of humor, a joy of living. She has no interest in pushing sheep around, but a passion for running circles around them, which she does with gusto and enthusiasm.

We accept her for who she is and love her for who she is. Like the both of us, she is an outlier, she lives apart from the normal lives of dogs and border collies. Once in a while, when she is running madly around, she turns, tongue hanging to the ground, and gives me her pirate stare. I’m read! What next! Let’s Go!

I love having a crazy dog, perhaps because I am crazy also. We connect with the craziness in each other.