SheltieTalesSheltieTalesA blog about Shelties, especially rescued Shelties, and their people. In this blog, you'll find stories of and about Shelties, Sheltie rescue, and the emotional aspects of dog ownership and rescue. 
Articles
Help: MISSING FEMALE BLUE MERLE SHELTIE
2007-11-03 22:16:00 I’m desperately searching for my missing sheltie. Please visit & distribute my website by email or any other method to get the word out: www.findshaka.com Thanks, CHRIS addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2FSheltie Tales.com%2F2007%2F1 1%2F03%2Fhelp-missing-female-blue-merle-s heltie%2F'; addthis_title = 'Help%3A+MISSING+FEMALE+BLUE+MERLE+SHELTI E'; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Female , Blue , Missing , Missi
Three happy adopters and four happy Shelties!
2007-11-01 01:07:00 We are so lucky to have some of the world’s best Sheltie adopters. They send us photos of happy Sheltie Moms and their Sheltie kids! This is one of those great photos taken by Bobbie’s husband, Todd Blackley. From left to right are Bobbie Pyron and her rescued, handsome Sheltie-boy Teddy , Linda Broussard and ... More About: Happy
Evie and Jackson - Partners in Crime!
2007-10-31 16:40:00 Evie is very happy these days to have another youngster here as curious and as intrepid as she is when it comes to investigating the unknown. Thanks to Evie, Jackson is learning that when Jim enters the room it’s cause for running and barking at the top of our lungs. Sound the alarm! Things are ... More About: Crime , Partners
Google Page Rank 5!
2007-10-31 07:03:00 I guess I’m exposing my inner (and outer!) geek, but I just have to brag a little. This blog has finally received a Google Page Rank , which is a number from 1 to 10 that indicates how “popular” a web site is. The rankings depend on many things, like the number of “hits” a site ...
That darned cat!
2007-10-31 06:54:00 I’m allergic to dogs, and even moreso to cats. Naturally, we always have about a dozen to 18 dogs around. (Hey, what are allergy medications for, anyway?!) Years ago, when Merlin died, his Sheltie-sister (cousin, actually) Ellie was really lonely. I worked about 18 hours a day (some things never change!), so I knew that ... More About: Humor
Too funny!
2007-10-31 06:38:00 Here’s another laugh-’til-you-cry story from Hondo at the Wild Bunch (as always, unedited, just as John wrote it), told from the viewpoint of a stray dog: I was walking down the road and it was raining. I have spent many a day and night walking on the road since I’ve been a stray but not ... More About: Funny , Humor
Adoption Day: Gigi
2007-10-31 06:34:00 Sometimes, things just come together. A week or so ago, we took in a new rescue, a pudgy little sable-and-white girl named Gigi . This adorable year old was a bit overweight (but not obese) and needed a dental, but she was sweet as could be and loved to cuddle. We assumed that she’d be easy to ... More About: Adoption
Sheltie stolen from Kansas in 2002-still missing-have you seen Racer?
2007-10-30 20:23:00 My name is Katie Roberts-Gilliam and I am still desperately looking for my blue merle Racer . Our 3-yr old boy was stolen from our ranch in September 2002 in Overbrook, Kansas . He was intact, had 2 piercing blue eyes, full white collar, had a Home Again microchip registered with AKC. We have no idea where ... More About: Stolen , Missing , Sheltie
The Ellen Show, or Rescue Organization Policies
2007-10-22 23:13:00 Disclaimer: I did not actually see the episode of The Ellen Degeneres Show that has created such a controversy in the dog rescue community. My observations about those events are thus based on what I’ve been told. That, however, doesn’t really affect the principal thoughts in this blog entry. Background (about the Ellen Show episode): Apparently, ... More About: Organization , Stuff , Policies
When it rains, it pours
2007-10-22 22:49:00 I’m currently in Vancouver, BC (CAN) on a business trip. When I left the house (I always have to qualify my answer when somebody asks me “How many dogs do you have now?”), we had 11 dogs in the house. Before I got to Vancouver, we had 13! In fairness, one of those 13 is a ...
Adoption Day: Laddy
2007-10-19 00:43:00 Last night, Laddy’s new mommy and daddy, newly-married and newly-honeymooned, came over to complete the adoption. When I brought Laddy into the room where the couple were waiting, his face lit up like a kid at a birthday party. I’d been telling him all day that “Today’s the day, your new mommy and daddy are ... More About: Adoption
A couple of laughs
2007-10-19 00:31:00 In a newsletter, The Good Companion, published by an Australian performance dog club (ACT Companion Dog Club), I found the following two items of interest. These are printed by permission: “The ACT Companion Dog Club Inc gives permission for the reprinting of articles appearing in The Good Companion, except where copyright has been stated, although ... More About: Humor , Couple , Laugh
Today?s chuckle
2007-10-17 23:29:00 The following was sent out on the SheltieRescue list by Brenda Lux: A Scottish Laugh Scotsman walking through a field sees a man drinking water from a pool with his cupped hand. The Scotsman shouts “Awa ya gowk yon’s foo o’ coos skitter” (Translation - Don’t drink the water, you fool; it’s full of cow shit) The ... More About: Humor , Today
Sugar?s rescue story
2007-10-16 22:25:00 I want to share with you my website about a recently rescued Sheltie named Sugar . She is our second Sheltie but our first rescue. The website is called Sugar’s Blog. You’ll find lots of pictures as well as Sugar’s rescue story and also an ongoing blog from Sugar’s perspective. I hope you’ll enjoy it. addthis_url ... More About: Story , Rescue
Shelties I Have Known: Merlin
2007-10-15 04:47:00 In 1969, the woman to whom I was married at the time acquired a Sheltie. I’d never even heard of the breed before then, but I immediately fell in love with them. The woman was a bit, ummm, un-centered and did some really weird things to force the poor little guy to prove that he ... More About: Behavior , Training , Merlin
Indy, a very special boy
2007-10-13 03:08:00 A few months ago, we rescued a little Sheltie boy named Indy (Independence) and a little Sheltie girl (Gracie) at the same time. Gracie was placed very quickly and settled into her new forever home quickly. But I just liked Indy so much that I didn’t want to hurry him out the door. We hung ... More About: Special
Advertising. Or, Why We Need This Blog To Succeed.
2007-10-13 02:47:00 What is a blog for? For some people, I guess, it’s an artifact of their egos: I’m so important that everybody will want to know what I’m thinking. For others, it’s a genuine effort to belong to and participate in a community, or maybe a sincere desire to offer expertise, support, or just joie de ... More About: Advertising , Blog , Vert
Didn?t you notice?
2007-10-13 02:31:00 Nobody’s commented on the “bullets” in the sidebars of this blog! I worked a long time on those. Of course, they’re only 16 pixels wide by 16 pixels high, so the resolution isn’t very good. But each and every one of them is a tiny little sable-and-white Sheltie head with nose pointing at the item ... More About: Notice
Food. It comes.
2007-10-13 02:25:00 You know what superstitious behavior is, don’t you? For me, it’s channel surfing past the USA Network channel on satellite every night because 10 years ago they used to have good late night movies…I keep expecting, against all evidence to the contrary, that I’ll find a good movie “tonight”. For our dogs, it’s a little more ... More About: Humor , Food , Behavior , Training
BAH! (Big Awkward Headline)
2007-10-13 02:20:00 Sorry about that big, hot pink, ugly headline up at the top of the home page for this blog. It’s there because Barbara’s trying to win a digital camera from a rescue organization who’s looking for ideas about “how to let people know that video is coming to [that organization]”. It’ll be gone in a ... More About: Headline
Missing the kids
2007-10-11 03:15:00 Sigh…I’m sitting in a meeting room on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, where I’ve been for the last three days, with two more to go. The meetings are going just fine, but I really miss the Shelties and my darling wife Barbara. I’ve been a road warrior for decades now, traveling more than staying ... More About: Kids , The Kids , Missing , Missi
Introducing Michelle - Sheltie Socializer and More!
2007-10-11 03:00:00 Hi, We’ve been really lucky to have been contacted by Michelle Baksh who had a beautiful Sheltie -girl named Penny that she lost about a year ago. She and her husband live in a community where their current dog puts them at their limit so Michelle needs to look elsewhere to get her “Sheltie fix”. ... More About: Behavior , Training
Evie and the Praying Mantis
2007-10-07 00:34:00 Before I moved to Utah I’m not sure if I’d ever seen a Pray ing Mantis…just knew about it from science class and photos and such. Here in my own backyard I seem to trip over them all the time. What is it about Utah and the Praying Mantis — do we have an ...
Thoughts about Laddie
2007-10-06 04:40:00 Laddie wrote a few thoughts a couple of posts back and that prompted me to share some of my thoughts about Laddie and other dogs like him. When Laddie came to us, I think it would have been fair to say that he had the potential to be a mild fear-biter. By that, I mean that ... More About: Thoughts
Remembrance of Days Past
2007-10-06 04:12:00 There’s this fella named John Perkins who runs an outfit called The Wild Bunch. It’s just him, his wife, and a passel of dogs, many of them Shelties, ranging from…well, who can tell how many of them there are. John has this incredible talent for story telling and his tales usually make me reach for ... More About: Remembrance , Past , Days
Wer is mi mommi n daddi?
2007-10-06 03:57:00 Hi der. Dis be Laddie. I’s not so yust to da puter so ya kin jus be pashint wid me. I lik libin here wid Jim n Barbara. I got to meat mi foreber famili a few days ago. Deyre reel nice peepl. I liked um lots, but dey cuddnt take mi home rite way. Dey ...
Evie?s Mom-to-Be and Evie in Art
2007-10-03 17:41:00 I feel really good that we have an adopter for Evie that I believe is a perfect, perfect match. I think that when we get them together, Judi and Evie will be blissfully happy with each other. Evie, despite being able to intimidate every dog in our home, is a beautiful, delicate little girl who’s ...
Sleeping with Evie!
2007-10-03 17:30:00 Little Evie, who I often refer to as Evil Evie because she can put the fear of her little self into any size dog that comes into our home (Evie only weighs about 15 pounds) is becoming an even sweeter, cuddlier, more loving little munchkin. Lately I’ve been getting up very early in the ... More About: Sleeping
Losing Track
2007-10-03 02:50:00 When you’ve got 2, 3, or 5 dogs in the house, it’s pretty easy to keep track of who’s where and what their names are. Ten or 12 (or 18!) is qualitatively different. I’m ashamed to admit that we have miscounted and left a dog outside overnight once or…well, more. That’s terrible, but we often ... More About: Track
Feeding Time
More articles from this author:2007-10-03 02:44:00 Breakfast and dinner time for one or two dogs is fun. It’s reasonably quiet and calm and the furkids are appreciative of your efforts. But make that 11 like we have in the house now, and it’s absolute chaos! Barbara does the feeding (she’s the nutrition and medication maven) while I sit here bringing home ... More About: Humor , Time , Feeding 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
|
 |
|
 |
