Border Collie & Aussie Hats

Border Collie and Australian Shepherd owners share a particular kind of pride: the dog is smarter than they are, and everyone in the house knows it. The AKC calls the Border Collie an "intelligent workaholic," and cites Chaser, a Border Collie who knew the names of more than 1,000 objects. The breed grew out of sheep work, including an 1873 trial in Bala, Wales, where collies penned sheep guided only by hand signals and whistles. Most of these dogs now herd a family, a backyard and a frisbee instead. These hats are for the people on the other end of the leash. Badges name the breeds, BORDER COLLIE MOM and AUSSIE DAD. The longer lines carry the brags: a dog that does the taxes, a vocabulary of 1,000 words against the owner's 12, a frisbee treated as religion, and an Aussie whose full-time job is watching you. IT'S NOT DOG HAIR IT'S AUSSIE GLITTER is a phrase already printed on hats, tees and mugs across the market, because anyone who lives with an Aussie knows the tumbleweed of fur that follows them through the house. I HERD YOU is the pun on every herding-dog shirt, here in thread. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear it to the agility trial, the disc-dog field or the dog park, or give it to the friend whose collie outsmarted the baby gate again.