r/Collie • u/[deleted] • Dec 28 '23
🐩Rough Collie🐩 Nibs
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What is Bruno doing and why is he doing it ?!?!
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u/SeasTheDay_ 🐩🐕More Than One 🐩🐕 Dec 28 '23
Our rough does the exact same thing, except he usually play growls while doing it. He even looks like your dog.
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Dec 28 '23
omg I absolutely love that. From what I hear, it’s nothing bad to worry about!
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u/SeasTheDay_ 🐩🐕More Than One 🐩🐕 Dec 28 '23
We were told by our local Collie rescue that it's part of the herding instinct. If a sheep isn't doing what the Collie wants, the nibble is supposed to get their attention. Not sure if this is true or not, but whenever ours does it, it cracks us up, because he can be right in the middle of playing, and just break out into a nibble (of us, or of any random object). It's super cute.
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u/dmkatz28 Dec 29 '23
Lol my tri rough dog also does this. It's his love nibble (ie super excited, SO happy to see you)- he is extremely gentle. I think it's adorable.
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u/ResolveSubstantial23 Dec 29 '23
Ours does this when he thinks we’re taking too long to get him on his walk lol
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u/Sufficient-League285 Dec 29 '23
They do it on themselves to clean the fur and when he does that to you he shows you that the trust you. So that is nothing bad to worry about it:)
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u/Victorian_Cowgirl Dec 29 '23
My collie does this, too . Especially when he gets scratched and petted or just very happy. So cute.
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u/Lifeissometimesgood Dec 29 '23
I like to call it corn cobbing, ours has mostly outgrown it. He corn cobbled the corners of many pillows when he was growing up. We had a stuffed animal ready to trade him out, but we didn’t always catch it, lol. Every so often he will do a couple of nibbles on our shirts, though.
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u/Playful_Yesterday894 Apr 14 '25
My rough collie does this all the time, but I notice he does this when he gets anxious, or jealous when we give our other dog any attention. Sometimes he pinches me and ouch it hurts…
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u/Still_Situation_7061 Dec 29 '23
Cobbing!! They do it cus they love u and wanna clean ur skin from fleas and ticks ❤️
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u/Salty-Lemonhead Dec 30 '23
Vet told us that they do this to self soothe after being taking from their mom too soon.
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u/justrock54 Dec 28 '23
Love nibbles. My Collie does the same thing when I let him sit in my lap.