"Hey! You're the woman that keeps yelling at us!"

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Chins-n-Sheltie

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Recently, Renaissance Fair came to town. We live three blocks away, so the girls and I spent all day, literally, walking back and forth and to and fro in the market. Sada almost had her brains bobbled out off-roading in her stroller, but whenever we paused, she was right at hand level to be loved on. Oh, Fly was SO jealous! They wore their beautiful Renaissance collars and we frequently passed the Humane Society's cookie booth!

As I was standing beside the booth, chatting with some of the lovely ladies, I heard some woman say, "Hey! Look, that's the woman that's always yelling out of her car at us." I turned, looked at her, didn't' recognize her from Adam and felt seriously disturbed. I never yell at people, I don't even honk my horn at people! I turned away to redistribute lamb shaped cookies to Fly and Sada, when she said it again, this time to me directly.

I thought I was about to get pummeled or something! What had I DONE? Then she tapped her partner on the shoulder again, pointing at Fly, "Look, just like George!"

Aaaah. I realized with great relief that they were my father's neighbors with the tri-sheltie. Who recognizes humans anyway? I mean, really! They finally got to see my girls up front instead of me gesturing to the back seat of my car. I apologized about my ridiculous habit of running down ANYONE with a sheltie and insisting on telling them how gorgeous their dog is. They laughed and said that though I seemed a little crazy, they could understand. Maybe, this is something I'll consider in the future... Not everyone is as wild about shelties as I am.
 
What a great story!

My Mom does the same thing. She met one of her closest friends now, by pulling over on the side of the road and getting out when she saw someone with a Setter walking down the side of the road.
 
I don't think you are strange at all! We were walking our dogs not long ago and a car came by, slowed down and was creeping along beside us. I looked over and the woman was pointing behind her so I looked behind me thinking she was trying to alert us to something, but there was nothing there. All of a sudden a sheltie head popped up in the back seat and looked at us! We all laughed and waved, and then she drove off!! It's funny because we didn't notice shelties until we got one, but now we look for them!
 
Haha, too funny!

You know, in my area its not uncommon at all for people to slow down or stop in cars to talk to us about our dogs, but I've never done it myself. But that doesn't mean I think that the people who did stop were strange, we're just too shy to stop ourselves. :smile2:
 
If I see a dog that even looks like it has Sheltie IN it--I always ask breathlessly, "Oh, is your dog part SHELTIE?" I mean, who the heck cares what other "parts' it may have--the fact that is may possibly have SOME SHELTIE in it is good enough for me!

Lori
aka the neighborhood weirdo
 
Traffic in my area is too heavy for people to pull over to chat but I certainly get stopped by people on foot who own/have owned shelties.

Chins-n-Sheltie said:
Aaaah. I realized with great relief that they were my father's neighbors with the tri-sheltie. Who recognizes humans anyway? I mean, really!
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I can completely relate to this! There are a lot of dogs in my building and we owners often chat if we run into each other with our dogs. However, I can't seem to recognize them without their dogs when they are all dressed up to go to work or out! In the beginning, I had quite a few occasions of momentary confusion when they started talking to me like I knew them but, nowadays, even if I can't place them, I just assume they are other dog owners! :lol:
 
So, I think we seriously startled some people in France this way - they were holding a Sheltie puppy in their arms, a mother and son, and I squealed and pointed to the pup - they kinda smiled, then we whipped out my DH's wallet with pics of our girls... their English was limited but they seemed amused and were nice about it.

Probably thought "crazy Americans" but we couldn't help ourselves! :lol:

And once when we were visiting our breeder and standing in the driveway, a lady drove by, stopped, backed up and honked - there she was with a Sheltie in the car window. We were all delighted about it! LOVE those random encounters.

Sharon
Asta and Ally
 
I am so happy to hear that I'm not the only person that stops every time I see a Sheltie. My partner says that I'm crazy always stopping to check out the other Shelties. I to have had people stop to admire my little boy and girl. Maybe Sheltie owners are crazy, but you do meet nice people that way and meet some really beautiful Shelties.:smile2:
Becky Mom of bristol and Charlotte
 
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