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
Bella and the Boys
2008-05-28 00:47:00 I don’t have a photo of this event, but everyone tells me to post the story of how Apache’s brother Sarge also from Sheltie Rescue of Utah, herded Bella back to us when she ran away. To start, I had a bad experience when Bella was a puppy getting off leash. I had ... More About: Behavior , Training , Boys , The Boys
Bella and Apache
2008-05-28 00:33:00 I finally downloaded photos from my camera so I can now show pictures in this post. Sorry it’s taken me so long, like most people I snap away with my digital camera never to really look at the photos for several months or years. I did discover some happy dogs when I did finally look ... More About: Apache , Bella
Ahhh?the sweet fragrance of a?wet dog?
2008-05-27 09:00:00 When you’ve got 10 or 12 or 20 dogs in the house, smells are unavoidable. And not all of them are as lovely as “wet dog”, either We get dogs who are incompletely (or simply not) house-trained, dogs who are old and have incomplete control of some bodily functions, and dogs who get sick ... More About: Sweet , Fragrance
Shelties I Have Known: Annie
2008-05-25 12:10:00 We’ve had two Annies in our lives. One, about which I will write another time, was ours. She was amazing and I look forward to telling her story. This, though, is the story of a rescue named Annie. We were contacted by a person in St. George, UT, who said that he had just taken a Sheltie ... More About: Loss
Rescue Fatigue
2008-05-25 08:28:00 Our good friend Cynthia Heyman (a/k/a Cynthia Blue) is taking a break from Collie Rescue , as I just learned in this post from her blog, Tip-Tail. For those of you who don’t know, Cynthia is Collie Rescue of Utah. Barbara is on her board of directors and helped Cynthia formalize her Collie rescue work (e.g., ... More About: Foster , Collies
Gone At The End
2008-05-25 08:09:00 Barbara told me when we talked today that Ginger’s reached the end. And I’m still in Australia. That sucks. They were at the vet’s a couple of days ago and Dr Cox (at Cottonwood Animal Hospital) opined that Ginger might have at most a few months left. There’s no one thing that’s identified as being the ... More About: Loss
Recent fundraising activities
2008-05-18 01:30:00 If you’ve read the last few postings in this blog, you’ll know that one of the major consumers of my time, and Barbara’s, was the 2008 ASSA National that happened just a couple of weeks ago. We’ve finished doing the numbers from that event and are not unhappy…not a bit. National Sheltie rescue made about ... More About: Fundraising , Activities , Recent
Down (under) and out
2008-05-18 01:26:00 Greetings from Sydney, Australia! in a previous post, I said that I was in Dublin, Ireland, and was on my way to Australia to scuba dive and then for two weeks of technical meetings. Well, I returned safe and sound from diving ? which, by the way, was absolutely incredible! We spent about half of ... More About: Stuff , Sheltie
Take a short breather
2008-05-10 20:40:00 I must humbly apologize for the lack of contribution to the blog. Spring has sprung and between spring grooming and yard, critter care, I don’t have time to do anything it seems! This is a breather moment for me and really just a big excuse/avoidance in regards to a rather messy house. Like I’m the only one on ... More About: Humor , Short
Ginger
2008-05-07 14:52:00 About a week ago, this woman called Julene (one of SRU’s board members) about a Sheltie that she wanted to relinquish. Turns out that this woman’s mother really owned the Sheltie, whose name is Ginger , but had become unable to care for her. From the information we got, it would seem that the owner had ... More About: Foster , New Kids on the Block
More About Misty
2008-05-07 14:39:00 Here I am, sitting in my hotel room in Dublin. Yes, Ireland. It’s a beautiful day in a wonderful city, but here I sit, writing a post. I must be trying to make up for all those weeks without blogging I just finished giving my paper at the conference (XTech 2008), which is the ...
Leavin? on a Jet Plane?
2008-05-05 20:14:00 It was tough to walk out of the house this morning at 6:30. I’m sitting in San Francisco International Airport’s international terminal, in the United Airlines Red Carpet Club, writing this post. As we almost always do when Barbara takes me to the airport, we brought Star and Sly along for the ride. They’re our ... More About: Plane
Recovering a Lost Dog
2008-05-04 22:06:00 If you’ve been involved in rescue for any length of time at all, you’ve encountered the problem of finding lost dogs. Barbara and I have dealt with this problem a bunch of times, so far with 100% success (knock wood). We’ve developed a number of strategies and tactics that have served us very well, learning ... More About: Lost
?Way too long?
2008-05-04 21:49:00 I feel like I’ve let you all down. It’s been several weeks since I’ve written a blog entry, and even longer since anybody else did. I hope you can forgive me once you read my excuses On the day when I wrote my prior post, I was on my way to a business meeting ... More About: Long
The Passing of a Friend
2008-04-08 00:48:00 A good friend of mine (not to mention a good friend of Shelties in general, Sheltie rescue, and performance Shelties) died a few days ago. Jean Clodwick finally lost a long battle with cancer. Jean and I became friends at the 2004 ASSA National right here in Utah when we both became embroiled in a controversial ... More About: Friend , Passing
The 2008 ASSA National, or How To Go Crazy In One Easy Step
2008-04-08 00:38:00 Readers will note that I have gotten progressively less responsible as the weeks drag on. Meaning, of course, that I haven’t blogged in something like two weeks. I need to be fed plain kibble for a week, or something similarly punitive. I really do have good excuses though, although the dog did not eat my homework ... More About: National , Crazy , Stuff , Easy , Step
Chewie, Chewie?He?s Good
2008-03-24 18:15:00 Just over a week ago, I blogged about the current “State of the Pack”, promising I’d blog about some of the newer dogs individually. Well, I don’t have time even today, but a promise is a promise Today, I want to talk about one of the puppy mill dogs that we received from up ... More About: Good , New Kids on the Block
Vote For Your Favorite Name for the ISSA Newsletter!
2008-03-18 21:45:00 Hi, there…here you can click on the circle next to your favorite name for the ISSA newsletter. The name that gets the most votes wins! Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Thank you for voting! One vote only please. addthis_url ... More About: Newsletter , Vote , Favorite
Introducing the team of Alex and Missy!
2008-03-18 02:15:00 We have the most precious pair of kids here…and among them are Alex and Missy . Alex is an 11 year old Sheltie-boy who comes with Missy, his companion of 11 years who’s a female Miniature Schnauzer. Alex was her ticket into SRU. They are a real team after eleven years of companionship and we want ... More About: The Team , Team
Counting Heads
2008-03-16 23:11:00 I feel terrible that I haven’t blogged in many days. I have some pretty good excuses (e.g., my day job’s overwhelming, I’ve been working on a new version of the SheltieRescueMall web store, the 2008 ASSA National Sheltie Specialty is coming up fast, blah, blah, blah), but so what… I thought it might be interesting to ... More About: Heads , Counting , New Kids on the Block
You Say It?s Your Birthday?
2008-03-16 18:14:00 Jackie and Mom Jenny are celebrating Jackie’s 3 year birthday! Look how well behaved Jackie is with that yummy cake right in front of her. Jackie’s got quite a coat. She looks a bit chubby but she’s not…she’s just got one very big coat on a very little girl! Happy Birthday Jackie! - Barbara, Jim, ...
Evie?s New Family are Fast Learners?
2008-03-16 17:31:00 Evie is settling in with Mom Judi and family and it sounds as though she’s been working hard at training them all to know their roles vis-a-vis Evie. As Queen of the Manor Evie, while not having a pack of Shelties to put through their paces anymore, finds herself with a yard full of wildlife ... More About: Family , Fast
On a slightly happier note?
2008-03-07 22:23:00 I thought it might be fun to show everybody a video that we took late in 2007 ? of Tommy (our blind and deaf white Sheltie) and Jackson (a Corgi we rescued) playing. They played very nicely with each other, and Jackson figured out how to play with Tommy so he didn’t get scared or ... More About: Behavior , Training , Note , Happier
Sleep Gently Sweet Polly
2008-03-05 21:42:00 We miss you more than there are words to describe. I needed you to be in your crate at meal time to bark at me to remind me that I hadn’t given you your breakfast or dinner yet. I need you to be on the ottoman next to the bed each night. I need ... More About: Sweet , Sleep , Loss
The Pain of Another Loss?
2008-02-27 03:39:00 Last weekend, we became the rescuers and fosters of five puppy mill dogs! I’ll blog about that whole deal separately, but this post addresses the almost-instant sadness that derived from one of these rescues. A small tri-color (almost bi-black, but she had small amounts of sable around her muzzle) Sheltie girl came to us in obviously ... More About: Pain , Loss
Life without dogs
2008-02-23 23:35:00 I found this very appropriate note on Sheltie Nation and thought all dog owners could relate. Unfortunately the author is unknown, but for those that have multiple dogs, I’m sure you could have authored this. Jim and Barbara I especially thought of you. Sarah (aka Bella’s mom). If I Didn’t Have Dogs … I could walk ... More About: Humor , Life
OK, It?s Officially Pouring!
2008-02-17 03:56:00 OMG! We have seventeen ? that’s 17 ? you know, a one followed by a seven — dogs in the house right now. Five new ones are puppy mill dogs, three with serious emotional issues and others with health issues (including one with a paw that looks like it was savaged by another dog). And ... More About: Foster
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
2008-02-15 02:27:00 I wasn’t very happy when groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Feb 2nd and declared 6 more weeks of winter. This has been a long, snowy winter. I’m glad that we won’t have another drought this summer, but I’m tired of shoveling and having to scrape my car off every other morning. Watching the ... More About: Snow
When it rains?
2008-02-15 02:26:00 Well, we’re officially overwhelmed again. Last night, two older puppy-mill girls joined our program. These girls were rescued (along with something like 115 other dogs?) from a puppy mill in Missouri a couple of weeks ago. A number of groups around the country volunteered to take in some of the dogs. One of the wonderful ... More About: Foster
Keeping Up With the Joneses
More articles from this author:2008-02-11 05:31:00 We try very, very hard to ensure that every Sheltie in the area we cover (Utah, Idaho, parts of Nevada, parts of Wyoming, and elsewhere as needed) who is in need of a new home gets one. But it’s not easy. We’ve rescued Shelties from all of the following sources (and probably others that I ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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