Before I moved to Utah I’m not sure if I’d ever seen a Praying Mantis…just knew about it from science class and photos and such. Here in my own backyard I seem to trip over them all the time. What is it about Utah and the Praying Mantis — do we have an […]

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Laddie wrote a few thoughts a couple of posts back and that prompted me to share some of my thoughts about Laddie and other dogs like him.
When Laddie came to us, I think it would have been fair to say that he had the potential to be a mild fear-biter. By that, I mean that […]

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There’s this fella named John Perkins who runs an outfit called The Wild Bunch. It’s just him, his wife, and a passel of dogs, many of them Shelties, ranging from…well, who can tell how many of them there are. John has this incredible talent for story telling and his tales usually make me reach for […]

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Hi der. Dis be Laddie. I’s not so yust to da puter so ya kin jus be pashint wid me.
I lik libin here wid Jim n Barbara. I got to meat mi foreber famili a few days ago. Deyre reel nice peepl. I liked um lots, but dey cuddnt take mi home rite way. Dey […]

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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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So, it occurred to me tonight that it might be a Good Idea if I said what I hope this blog will accomplish. Obvious? To you, maybe! Some of us are slower out of the gate than others.
In this space, we plan to talk about Sheltie Rescue and all the things that go with it. […]

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My friend Cynthia Blue (as she is wont to call herself) finally persuaded me to start a blog in which the stories of Sheltie Rescue can be told. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished — I will get her for this!
This first version of this blog (ummmm, about version 0.1) feels pathetically amateurish, especially […]

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