Product Description

A delightful opportunity to join the Sheepdogs of Kings Green Farm at work and play. Stunning photography, a superb soundtrack, optional director's narration make for an entertaining DVD that you and your dog loving family and friends will want to watch over and over again. . . . Be sure to check out the credits . . !

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18051 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-09-01
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 75 minutes

DVD Description
Imagine up to twenty sheepdogs and border collie puppies racing through fields, woods and bridleways, over styles, swimming, digging, exploring, playing together, spending a day by the sea – and Mel shooting a Sega Ad whilst nursing a litter of pups! Now capture the fast action, hilarious antics and delightful puppy scenes, with stunning video photography. Set it to 18 powerful, inspiring and varied music tracks which fit the scenes perfectly, then add a delightful slideshow of 32 photographs by acclaimed sheepdog photographer Andy Nickless. The result is a unique movie showing the dogs and puppies relaxing together in ways the average pet owner never sees. Border Collie Sheepdogs - Off Duty! is a great gift for all dog lovers and children.

Special Features
Slideshow of 32 beautiful sheepdog pictures.

Synopsis
A dog lovers 'ultimate movie' with Sheepdogs and puppies filmed relaxing and at play accompanied by eighteen music tracks.

Customer Reviews

Even working dogs need time off!
A friend bought this DVD after seeing a review by Barbara Sykes (who described it as a "must see" in Freedom of Spirit magazine). The blurb says, "If you like dogs - you'll love this DVD" and it's right! It's a film about what Border collies do on their days off, but I think anyone who likes to see happy dogs of any (or no particular) breed will enjoy this. The action isn't set-up stunts or highly trained manoeuvres, just dogs being dogs and some gorgeous puppies being puppies. There are funny bits and touching bits; the photography is great and instead of a narration each chapter has its own music track, obviously carefully chosen to suit the character or the action. It also means it doesn't matter what language you understand - you only need to speak 'dog'!
80 minutes may seem like a long time to set aside to watch someone else's dogs having fun but you can always just pick and choose through the chapters. If you're like me, though, you'll find 80 minutes just flies by.
Highlights for me? The mad dash through the gate to be first out - whatever gets in the way - and the puppy who lets her playmate out of the kennel but really it's hard to single out any one scene or dog. Look out for Mel's accident and subsequent op but don't panic - she turns up fit and well later in an ad! There's also a slideshow of lovely photographs, some of which I think have also appeared in various sheepdog books.
If you like dogs, see this video; if you don't - buy it for someone who does. They'll thank you for it!

It's Collie time !!
What a great DVD, my brother in law bought it for us for Christmas. Watching it made us laugh and cry there are not many feature films that can do that !
Seeing so many collies having so much fun together was excellent, so much so we have now have four !!
A must for all dog lovers.

just a lovely film
it,s lovely to see working dogs relaxing
and not working all the while,it was different
and funny.