Apologies upfront, I know this a purebred forum, but I've been a member here for a while. We got a pup from "friends" (farmers whose property neighbours my brother's).  We met the mother a couple of times, a lovely healthy purebred Golden Lab (who is actively used for retrieving.)  They'd always been careful, but obviously not this time.  The obvious assumption was that it was their farm dog (or dogs?) who is a working Kelpie. Its my daughter's dog.  She actually wanted a Kelpie, but I said