Recent content by Tonya

Thank you! I would never have thought of the bell on a collar idea! I think that will help a lot as it will totally eliminate that silent attack that she thinks is so funny. I'm going to do the squirt bottle also.

Love, love, love.....and time. Your dog sounds a lot like my Luckie..we got her at a year old. She had never set foot in a house and had not been socialized at all. She was terrified of EVERYTHING and everyone. She would hide in a corner of my bathroom when we got her. I would have to gently...

I'm hoping for some pointers from someone else who has experienced this... We rescued a one-year old sheltie a year ago. She came from awful living conditions and was pitiful when we got her. She was afraid of everything and everyone, and our cat quickly picked up on that. A year later...

Time and love.... I'm no sheltie expert by any means as I'm only a year into owning my first. BUT! My Luckie came to us a year ago at a year old. She was afraid of EVERYTHING. She pretty much lived in a bathroom (by choice) as she adjusted. If she got outside the fence, she bolted like a...

I grew up with collies, and as a military family, we never had fences on post. Our dogs were mostly house dogs who were walked frequently and occasionally tied out. As an adult, I didn't initially have a fence for my two rescued collies. They also spent most of their time in the house. I did...

I'm probably about to get blasted here, but I have my border collie cut every summer. She loves to hang out in the garage and outside a lot, and I live in middle Tennessee where it can get extremely hot. I just can't buy into the theory that they're cooler with mounds of fur. She LOVES her...

I discovered this site a few months ago, and I'm so glad I did. It makes me smile every single day. I love all dogs, but collies have always been my passion. I got my first when I was two months old and my last one died several years ago. There were six in all between the ones my parents...

I'm two weeks into sheltie ownership, but I've owned collies since I was two months old. I'm forty now, and I've had six collies, so I feel like I can speak for them in this slightly biased forum. Lol! My collies have ALL been silly, playful and full of life. They all had impeccable manners...