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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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