Wildwood Press

We’d barely left the condo when little sable and white Bonnie Lass—predictably—became extremely anxious. Outside of a scary ride as a tiny pup in a plane from her breeder in Kansas to her condo home in Michigan, she had not been inside a vehicle. Here she was in a strange vehicle with two strange people. [...]

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Read about the wonderful dogs I grew up with in my new book, A Tree Grows in Trout Creek. There’s a border collie named Bippo in the story called No More Pets. Calling Coyotes is the adventure that led to my being allowed to get the dog of my dreams. The story Crossing Bridges is [...]

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Here’s another great shelties site: www.tiptail.com! Tip Tail is about three collies, one border collie, dog training, agility, flyball, dog training and collie rescue. And the human behind it all is Cynthia! Take a look!

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This adventure started with an email from our friend Bob who had received an email from his friend Nancy who worked in a veterinary office. An elderly couple, both in ill health, was looking for a home for their tiny two year-old Shetland sheepdog. My friend wanted to know if I knew of anyone who [...]

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Rescuing shelties! What could be better than that? I’ve just added this wonderful sheltie rescue site to my favorites! Just click on the SHELTIE TALES “blog-button” on the right column to learn more!

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Sometimes, I forget these TV couch potatoes of mine were actually bred for working. But, when they decide I’m the only thing around here that even remotely resembles a sheep, they remind me that they really are working dogs by going directly to work. It happens every day! When I try to get from one [...]

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Tootsie was a very very small honey-colored dog. She was the tiniest Shetland Sheepdog that her family had ever adopted. She was so small that her family often could not even find her. But the trouble with Tootsie wasn’t so much that she was so small. No, the trouble with Tootsie was that she liked [...]

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When you were a child, in thoughts sweet and wild, did you wish you could visit a zoo and take home a camel, or any such mammal, to live forever with you? Did you dream with rapture of the day you might capture a lion, tiger, or bear, a kind furry beast who’d join in [...]

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