Apparently someone on site has id'd him as purebred and I think he's going into foster care with BCR as we speak, so, hand over that popcorn, I win! And bless those folks in the Pacific NW, they rock. Apparently the dog's story is that he was given away as a youngster when the people who originally bought him "found out" they were moving to an apartment. As my friend put it, "Since Border Collies wither and die in apartments" he was shuffled off to the first convenient person.