I'm an adventurous, outdoors-y and playful person, and until last summer, a proud owner of a border collie mix girl myself. I have also recently become a PADS volunteer and I hope to get a future service dog to raise soon. I have been told that I did a wonderful job with my girl, and people would often jokingly ask me how much do I charge for dog training. I had taught her new tricks at her 11th year of age, so I do not believe in "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" ;) I have also talked my neighbour and friend into adopting a dog, and helped (of course, with my girl) with socialising of a fearful/agressive female staffordshire that she fell in love with. The dog was adopted at 3.5 y.o. and she is now behaving like a puppy. It was a real joy seeing her becoming a new dog, feeling free enough to start developing her own character and little quirks. She is my second favourite dog in the world, and reason why I do not believe that fearful dogs are incorrigible. Oh, I have also given a CPR to another dog who jumped into the river (he loved to swim) but got a stroke and sunk - we saved his life (my then-boyfriend jumped after the dog into the river to fish him out), but unfortunately stroke did its part, and he had some balance problems later on in life, which I am still sad about.