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Pippa gets Pro Plan Sport because the breeder recommended it, but she has grown really bored with it. I went to our locally owned pet products store and they gave me samples of a bunch of brands. They gave me a lot of the Fromm brand, as I type, she is eating (as in bringing a mouthful at a time...

I think you are right about the anxiety. I took her for a walk tonight, where we practice some of our commands, like sit and stay. I like to practice in an environment where there are distractions--like the neighborhood. She was doing great--not a single spin, until a motorcycle went by. She got...

Pippa is in obedience school at a local pet store. Every command I give her, she has to do a complete revolution with her body before she does the command. When I ask her to sit, she looks at me, spins around, and then sits. Is this a Sheltie thing or is she just nervous in the pet store where...

We went to a puppy obedience class at one of the local pet stores. Pippa would just plant her bottom and not move while she was on her leash. I use a Martingale collar on her. While we were in the class, I let her walk around with the leash dragging (in the enclosed area) for a little bit...

I guess my Pippa is officially shedding. I let her out of her crate and she ran outside full speed in her usual "yard circles." You could literally see the white hair of her ruff coming off. It's all fun and games until she gets on the furniture! :biggrin2:

We are in the Bellevue area, but I work at Nippers Corner which is close to that area.

Home Depot Trip Pippa went to Home Depot today and met many admirers--key to her socialization process. The guy at the store told me dogs were not allowed, but my dog was better behaved than the kids I saw there :wink2:. She was a perfect lady, but did not like the bumpy cart in the garden center.

I found Bullwrinkles (the big bag) of the smaller bully sticks at my local Big Lots last week for $3.00 a bag-I bought all the bags they had. It sells for 20 bucks at PetSmart. Pippa loves them because they are smaller.

I posted this on Pinterest (it's my most re-pinned pin) last year about my pom going to the Rainbow Bridge. I hope it comes through here. I love the poem. The pic was taken just before. I know she wasn't a Sheltie, but the poem is so powerful. It gave me strength to let a new furbaby into my...

Here's Pippa is with her "new" glued ears. She has taken to it quite well. She has not taken to the fact that we have opened the pool and she is not allowed inside the fence (the second photo,was to irresistible not to post, she is playing "pathetic pup")--will have to teach her how to get out...

Good grief! I have no idea why I was so freaked out! She took the gluing like a champ. Her ears have a sort of crease from where they were tipped before, so it was easy to find the natural fold when I put slight pressure on the tops of her ears. Afterward, she kind of went berserk--nothing that...

I found a breeder who had a puppy and I gave her a detailed description of our home and how the pup would be cared for, but I never heard from the breeder again (our house was "built" for pups/dogs--it has had mostly terriers grow up in it and every precaution for keeping a dog safe has been...

He is a cutie! He looks like he has some Catahoula in him and not heeler. Either way, so glad you rescued him!

If you have an Iphone, set the ringer to "dog bark"--made that mistake once. My husband walking around with his arms up like a zombie growling at Pippa--yes, we are weird. She circles him wildly. She has a thing for used fabric softener sheets (and here I spent all this money on chew toys)...

I'm going to try glue first--she has more hair in her ears than a 90-year old man. The tape seems a bit intimidating. Thanks so much for all your suggestions. I feel better knowing that I don't have to do the bridge thing to keep her ears together. She IS cuter with her tipped ears--I miss them!