No...don't feel I need to to see what the dogs get from it when i can watch the dogs, if I'm not doing it....
It's not something I want to do really. I did at points in the past, but not now.

Yes....it is, but that doesn't mean that they all want to do it....as you just said. I'm sure your collies do think it's a great job. As I said, that's good as they wouldn't be with you if they didn't (meaning your OH's working dogs).

I think we are only poles apart in that you seem to think ALL collies would prefer a life of herding to anything else, which I just don't believe is true at all. Not ALL BCs would prefer it (as you said) although I'm sure many do. Not all gundogs like to go on shoots, not all GSDs are able to work as herding dogs or protection dogs, not all corgis would want to herd cattle....as everyone said earlier in the thread, every dog has it's preferences about what it likes to do...it doesn't necessarily tie in with what it was BRED to do...

He's terrified of so much, that I can't see him not being scared of sheep! I'd LOVE to give it a go with him one day, don't get me wrong, but as you talk about herding being on another level for many BCs, Alfie is on another level when doing agility. He likes doing all the other things, but I just can't see him loving anything else in the same way he loves agility. In the same way you know your dogs would pick herding, I'm sure alfie would pick agility.