Barbara and I don’t travel much with our dogs. Most of our travel, because of my job, tends to be international or long-distance domestic, and taking one or more dogs would be difficult and expensive. In the past, though, when we had the time to actually drive somewhere within a few hundred miles to go […]

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Evie’s Mom-to-be, Judi, had to go to Spokane to have heart surgery. Evie worried about her and wondered what she could do to help her Mom through her surgery and to get well fast so that Evie can go home and snuggle with her. Here is a photo of Evie pondering this […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Ok, we made the decision to have TWO dogs. Of course it needed to be a Sheltie for the newcomer. Hunee is absolutely the most loved AND pampered Sheltie on the face of the earth for the past 10 years, we felt . Needless to say it was a tough decision to have another, although […]

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I was reading the post about Tommy, and how Barbara and Jim have hopes that he might be able to serve as a therapy dog at some point in the future. I just couldn’t resist sharing my own experience with my rescue, Twist. He is a 6 year old Sheltie who came into […]

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You may be starting to wonder “Doesn’t this guy ever get around to Shelties?” since this is my second blog entry on Alex, the African Grey parrot. But there’s a common thread in the topic of Shelties and the topic of Alex: intelligence. One of the reasons I love Shelties so much is that they […]

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I’m heartbroken. Today, I learned that Alex, the famous African Grey parrot, died on September 6, 2007. Alex, in case you don’ t know, was the subject of a 30-year experiment in learning – specifically avian learning (ALEX is actually an acronym for Avian Learning EXperiment). But Alex was much more than merely an experimental […]

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