Dear Keiva: We had Border Collies for about ten years, and I paid a lot of attention to them. My feeling is that they feel they have a contract to help the shepherd, whose judgement they frequently are tempted to doubt, but they still look on the sheep as prey being conserved for an eventual banquet. I still say that when they are "giving eye" they are saying under their breath "I'd chew the bejesus out of you if I could get away with it!" There was an article in Smithsonian a couple years ago about their being used to herd geese off turf which the geese want to eat, and into the pond, where there is nothing the geese want. So the geese get discouraged with being hurt, which would get the bleeding hearts up in arms. The geese are really getting to be a nuisance, and I thought it stupid that they were allowed in hundreds close to runways at Dulles. They could easily cause plane crash by getting into engine intake.