What is an Old-Time Scotch Collie (OTSC)?
An OTSC is the same Scotch Collie that was so popular 100 years ago. Some branches of this family have diverged in the past century either through selective breeding (Rough Collie) or crossing with other breeds (English Shepherd, Australian Shepherd), but some have remained more or less true to form, it is these remnant old type Scotch Collies that are referred to as OTSC. OTSC is also the same thing as McDuffie’s Old Time Farm Shepherds (OTFS). J. Richard McDuffie considered his dogs to be Scotch Collies but shied away from using that name because of its long association with the show type collie. Because Mr. McDuffie left no written standard as to what constitutes an OTFS, the only dogs that can rightly be called OTFS are those directly descended from Dunrovin’s Ole Shep and his littermates, yet these 4 dogs were not the only old type Scotch Collies left in existence. The name Old-Time Scotch Collie allows us to define a standard and enroll other dogs of this sort and keep the ball r
