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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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Just about everybody I know has a digital camera by now, and even a casual search on the Web reveals literally millions of pictures people have taken of their dogs and posted. I love to look at them, even though I tend not to post pictures of my own dogs (or anything from my personal […]

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If you’re reading this blog, there’s a pretty darned good chance that you’re interested in animals as pets, particularly dogs, especially Shelties. Right? And everybody who believes that animals, whether pets or not, should be treated humanely want to be sure that they “support the right causes” – including writing letters to their city officials, […]

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Chauncey URGENTLY needs a foster home or permanent home. Please call Barbara at 801-942-4762 if you or someone you know can help. Thanks!
Chauncey was a stray in a rural community in Idaho and landed in a very small shelter. That shelter needed help and turned to a large shelter in Boise. […]

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