Breed: Border Collie cross Date of Birth: Approx. 1999 Weight & Height: 18kg, 18″ KC Registered Name: Red Mollie Yellow Mollie KC Agility Grade: Retired BAA Agility Level: Veterans Flyball Team: Leeds ‘Owlers Flyball Titles: FD FDI FDG FDA

There is no way to accurately describe Mollie. She’s an experience. She’s got stumpy legs and a barrel body and a big head, she’s got no back-end awareness (or front-end awareness, actually), her eyesight is going and she’s missing a few teeth. But she makes up for it in enthusiasm, and somehow the enthusiasm wins.

Mollie loves swimming, loves puppies, loves destroying soft toys, stealing food, and woo-wooing at other dogs, but most of all she loves flyball. She’s daft as a brush, madly affectionate towards people she knows and loves, and can materialise herself a ball in any situation. They gravitate towards her, somehow.

She is reckless and fearless and gets excited about vet trips, and as she’s been so many times she knows all the vet nurses, exactly which kennel is best, and how to sucker cuddles off everyone. Her numerous vet trips are due to the plain fact that she is unbelievably clumsy. It fits in with the fearless, reckless lifestyle; no other dog would chase after a ball and plough through a wall head first because it was the shortest route.

Mollie is a rescue dog; she was found as a stray in May 2004, having recently had puppies. She was walking on the moors, very footsore, very bald, and very overweight. Luckily she was found by a friend of a friend, and found her way to us.

We know that someone, somewhere, loved her, fed her, and taught her beautiful heelwork, but they didn’t bother to find her and so we are lucky enough to have her now. Loud arguments and angry shouting are the only things to upset her, although touching her paws and attempting to brush her gorgeous coat does make her angry.

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