what kind of dog is lassie
Lassie is a fictional female collie dog character created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home. However, Knight may have been influenced by another female collie named Lassie, featured in the 1859 story The Half-brothers written by British writer Elizabeth Gaskell.The Half-brothers is a short, sentimental story in which a female border collie named Lassie, loved only by her young master, saves the day.alf collie, Lassie was owned by the landlord of the Pilot Boat, a pub in the port of Lyme Regis. On New Yearâs Day in 1915 the Royal Navy battleship  HMS Formidable  was torpedoed by a German submarine off Start Point in South Devon, with the loss of more than 500 men.