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Update: Vet Visit Hi Everyone, Thank you for all the well wishes, that is very sweet of all of you :) So...we walk into the vet with both of our shelties, since they always go everywhere together and the vet picks them up and hugs them and says "I just love dogs with skinny noises!" She is...

I came back vcation yesterday to find the one cyst on her back/butt area burst or she bit it open. It looks like a gunshot wound, it's literally a huge hole. I cleaned it up with warm water, a compress and bacitracin. She goes to the vet first thing in the morning. Thank you for your replies...

My 3 year old sheltie has 2 sebaceous cysts. One on her back in the center and one on her back-butt side area. They are about the diameter of your ring finger tip. The vet said to apply a warm compress to extract the nasty stuff and put bacitracin on it. Which I have been doing. She actually...

My rescue sheltie Indie is not a fan off thunder so I picked up a thunder vest for her and it calms her down a bit. Its 4th of july weekend though and Im dog sitting for my sisters two pit bulls and my moms pug and my two shelties. Im hoping my wife brings the vest when she heads up...

This post really pulls my heart stings. Our recently rescued Sheltie - Indie was completely bald when the Police had to remove her from her original home. Se had a little patch of fur on the top of her head. Can you even imagine a bald Sheltie? She had fleas and mange so bad that she lost all of...

Pack of Shelties rescued in Japan Today on Yahoo homepage, there is an article that you might have read. A Japanese Sheltie rescue organization risks radiation to rescue a pack of Shelties left behind in the radiation zone after the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami in Minami Soma...

going up the stairs that have no risers We have stairs with no risers and had to teach both our puppy sheltie Finley and our new adopted 5 year old sheltie Indie how to go up. This is what we did, it may work for you! Sit in the middle of the stairs - like on stair 6 or 7 with some yummy...

I have 2 Shelties: Finley 19 pounds and Indie 23 pounds. The flea and tick medicine is marked either "up to 20 pounds" or "21-55 pounds". Since Finley is right on the cusp of 20 pounds would it be better to give her the 21-55 or the 0-20 dose?

My shelties are used to their daily 2 mile walk and being in Chicago its getting harder and harder to take them on that walk. We just rescued a sheltie and now the two of them are constantly doing that play bite vicious looking sheltie wrestle. It tires them out no question. So my...

We did not get Indie from any of the Illinois Sheltie rescue organizations, we do not have a fenced in yard and we rent, therefore our application was quickly denied. We rescued Indie from Shelter from the Store in Madison, WI. Which is not that far from where we live. Indie went to our vet...

Shelties are high energy dogs arent they? I mean my two Shelties wont stop moving for a second. If they are wrestling they are chasing one another or demanding I throw the Frisbee to them. If they arent doing that they are staring at me wondering when their daily three mile walk is going to...

Any suggestions on whether or not I should give her vitamins or supplements to help with her skin/loss of fur and help with her general overall health?

Thank you for all the wonderful advice! We brought Kinsey home today and her and Finley haven't stopped playing since. She ate her food with no problem and we are so excited she is in a good home now. She has some fur loss due to stress and a shaved area on the nape of her neck where a mass...

Well we got our new baby. We drove from Chicago to Madison,Wi and made it in about 2 hours and a bit of change. My Finley met Kinsey and it was like they were long lost sisters. Both are high energy dogs but fortunately Kinsey is pretty quiet and always has been (why do I not believe that)...

Our Sheltie Finley is going to have a new sister tomorrow! Since we got Finley as a puppy (12 weeks), we have never adopted an older Sheltie. We have adopted a 2 year old sheltie and bringing her home tomorrow for the first time. We know the basics; she will be nervous, unsure and maybe...