Recent content by Fragglejh

So after a week where the whole family ended up with the stomach flu (apart from the dog, thank goodness!) Georgia is completely back to normal! The food bowl is being drained in the usual fashion, that being sniff to check it out first, a good look round to make sure no one is going to...

Thanks for all the suggestions. Been keeping an eye on Georgia and trying her occasionally with her food. She was turning her nose up again so I began to think that trying her with different food would be an option. The bag we have is not massive but is close to the end so I was thinking that...

Georgia is 15 months old and has been eating her Acana Lamb and Apple since before we welcomed her into our home a year ago (wow how time flys!). Last night we went to feed her, she sat as she always does, but when we clapped our hands to say 'go eat' she walked to her dish, smelt it and then...

Georgia loves shoes. I have repaired 3 pairs so far and one was just too chewed to rescue. She is so quick at stealing stuff and I'm sure she has the ability to make herself invisible or something as you just don't catch her in the act. It's only when you go in the yard and she the shoes...

Only just started to do a bit more reading around on this forum having spent most of my time reading about either dog training or puppy related stuff. Now that my sheltie is 1 and I'm much more used to her quirks I'm finding awesome stuff that I can bake for her too. I'm totally new to the...

Georgia was a regular vomit queen on car journeys. We always put her in a crate as we thought this would help her feel more secure and also keep the mess contained. I don't think her car sickness was really to do with motion, but more to do with being anxious. If we even took her near the car...

It's amazing how fast shelties are. Mine (a tri) is super fast. During her regular funny five minutes (where she goes totally bonkers and runs around like a shes on fire) she literally leaps across sofas and regularly jumps from half way up a 9 stair staircase like she is flying. I haven't done...

Tried this advice and so far so good. She was not amused when I totally ignored her and she soon got bored and wandered off. Every time she came back in the kitchen and started to jump I did the same thing and off she went again. It's only been a day, so I won't hold my breath but if I get a...

Thanks for all the moral support. I think I just needed the 'yes, it's not just you' from a few others to make me feel a bit more positive about things. I'll try a few of the suggestions and see what happens. If I have to crate her every time I prepare food then I guess I'll get used to it...

We have crated our girl since we got her at 4 months old (she is now 7 months). I wasn't keen on having her in our bedroom at night be we put her crate on the landing area just outside our bedroom. We keep our door open at night so we can listen out for our kids, so she can also hear us. She had...

I'm pretty new to sheltie forum (only posted once) and I just knew that as soon as I said my Sheltie doesn't bark that much that I was tempting fate. So, my problem is this. Whenever I go into the kitchen and start preparing food be it anytime of the day, my Sheltie starts barking at me and...

Thanks for the welcome. I can't believe how one little dog can make such a difference in our lives. Where once my son would struggle being in the same room as a dog, he now can often be found sat next to our happy hound giving her a tickled tummy. She just licks him and I just have to smile.

Hi, We have had our Sheltie for almost 4 months now and just love her to bits. We had been looking for a dog for a few years and had hoped to get a rescue dog from one of the local charities. However, as our son(8) was very nervous around large dogs (due to being frightened by a dog who just...