Dogs who chase shadows

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Do you have a dog who chases shadows or beams of light? Our Border Collie does this on a regular basis. He will chase any shadow he can when the wind blows and the leaves make shadows on the ground he could spend hours trying to catch them, off the ground. He even digs at them. If we pick up a flashlight he knows that it also gives him something to chase, we don't need to turn it on, he knows what it does and gets excited just to see it in our hands. The same goes for a laser pointer. We have crystals that hang in the windows and when sunlight hits them they emit rainbows which he chases also. We are careful and don't go too far because he can become single minded about this obsession.