October 10

Ebray (nicknamed Ebby) is approximately 6 ½ years old, purebred black and white border collie about 44 lbs.  He is very friendly, wants very much to be with people and loves to run!  He is mostly housetrained and is learning to like his crate.  He loves kisses, and loves to be rubbed and petted!

Ebby has had a tough life…our best guess is he was kept in an outside “run” or tied out where he could see cars and trucks or livestock but not chase or herd them.  So he is frustrated, and he has taken to chasing his tail (“spinning” as we call it).   His tail and foot were chewed when we got him due to his spinning.  We are working with him to stop his spinning, but it will take a long time and patient owners to get him over his behavior/manage his behavior.  We are clicker training him to reduce his spinning and redirecting his chasing/spinning to chewing on a rawhide and he is coming along quite well.

The best home for Ebby would be with a quiet family who lives on a quiet street, who would walk him a lot and love on him.  Ideal would be someone who has a privacy fence so he would not get excited by vehicles passing by.

Ebby gets along well with other dogs as long as they are not too frantic.  He play growls a bit but has never been aggressive with our dogs or us.  He is shy at first, but warms up to people quickly.  He is cat aggressive, so cannot live in a home with cats or other small mammals.

Ebby is neutered, up to date on shots and flea/tick preventative and microchipped.  He is being fostered in central IL near Peoria.  For more information on Ebby please email comebyebcrescue@hotmail.com or go to http://www.comebyebcrescue.rescuegroups.org

August 29
Ebby is a gorgeous 6 year old male Border Collie, who’s had an awful start in life.     Despite a razor sharp  BC mind and a physique that was made for activity, poor Ebby was left out (or tied) in a yard by himself.  For 6 long years.    When he began to develop troublesome behaviors, his owners dumped him at an overcrowded shelter, that had neither the room nor the facilities to deal with a stressed BC.   Ebby had already started his last walk to the gas chamber when an alert and sympathetic rescuer volunteered to take him.  Thank you, Flo!  

Come Bye BC Rescue agreed to take Ebby in and begin his rehabilitation.   First he needed time to decompress, to wander freely in a fenced area and explore.    He’s being fostered in a semi-rural area where not many cars pass by, since Ebby gets very distraught at the motion of cars and exhibits compulsive tail chasing—the very tip of his lovely plumed tail is bare from his pulling the hair out.     Ebby hadn’t been groomed in a long time, and getting his coat back in shape is still a work in progress.   Grooming is complicated by his explorations in the woods out back, since his fine undercoat grabs up little green stickums and knots them into clumps, from  his head to his hips.

Ebby’s still learning to walk on lead.   He’s got the hang of housebreaking pretty well.   He’s nervous around other dogs still, however many times he’s invited to play.    But we’re hopeful that as time goes on, his BC sense of fun will recover and he’ll learn to play rather than avoid other dogs.  

Keep in touch, and we’ll keep you updated on Ebby’s progress!

For more information on Ebby, please contact Mary.