My Foster Dog
by Unknown Author
My foster dog stinks to high heaven.
I don’t know for sure what breed he is.
His eyes are blank and hard.
He won’t let me pet him and growls when I reach for him.
He has ragged scars and crusty sores on his skin.
His nails are long and his teeth, […]

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I’m in Edinburgh (yes, Scotland) as I write this. I spent the day in a long technical meeting and am sitting in my hotel trying to avoid doing other work. And I have a 4-hour trans-Atlantic teleconference starting in less than an hour. Sigh…
I’ve kind of gotten used to the fact that almost no place […]

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HELP NEEDED ASAP:
Please help!!!! After two long years of being on a waiting list for an
agility dog, we have been notified by the breeder that, at long last,
our number has come up and …
WE ARE HAVING A PUPPY!!!
We must get rid of our children IMMEDIATELY because we just know how time […]

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I got this one from several sources, too. (Disclaimer: the use of the word “God” is not meant to imply any opinion about anybody’s religious affiliation or the lack thereof.)
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On the first day, God created the dog and said:
“Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in […]

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I got the following from about three different sources and thought I’d share it with all of you.
SEVEN SIGNS That Your Sheltie Is In Charge
7. You bought a custom-made “Extra Long” bed, so that the DOG could have more leg room!
6. You never forget to kiss your dog before you leave the house, […]

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Drat! I can’t believe that neither I nor anybody else has written anything in this blog in almost a month. At least I have an excuse. (Don’t I always?) As usual, I’ve been traveling. In fact, I’m writing this entry whilst sitting in a meeting room in Edinburgh (yes, Scotland).
I can’t believe how much I […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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., […]

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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 […]

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