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    help with the new guy!

    well we got our new sheltie :) We named him laddie. We got him from a rescue organisation. He's such a good boy, great temperament from what I can see so far. He gets along great with Penny although I can definately tell that he hasn't been fixed yet. Being quite the " male" around her lol. He's...
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    We got him!!! Meet Laddie

    hello! well today was the day. We went to pick up our new sheltie! We named him Laddie. He's about two years old. Got him from a rescue group. He was all the way in northern quebec so he had a long trip today. He is absolutely huge! I can't believe how big he is, if someone would tell me...
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    Penny (sheltie) pictures :) all grown up now...

    We got some pictures done of Penny, thought i'd share!!:) my babygirl is all grown up now...
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    Change a dog's name?

    Hello! Well it's all final. If all goes well on July 16th we'll be able to pick up our new Dog! I'm so excited! We actually managed to go through the rescue process and got approved right away which I never thought we would coz we dont have a fenced in back yard. Petfinder.com is such a great...
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    Playmate for Penny?? Keep your fingers crossed!

    Well we have been looking around for ages, and have put in an application and got approved!! Not 100% sure yet that we'll get him but keep your fingers crossed everyone! this is the little guy http://search.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=6513269
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    should we or should we not?

    Hello, how is everyone doing?? I've just been overseas for 2,5 weeks, staying with my family which was awesome. Penny was very well taken care of by my friend but she was ever so happy to see us again today:) anyway I have sort of a dilemma... My stepson's hamster died a few weeks ago and we...
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    bladder infection common after spaying?

    Hello! We got penny spayed last week (as some people might remember) she was doing great until we started to notice she was peeing a lot more than usual, took her to the vet today, my poor girl has a bladder infection:( has anyone ever heard of that happening after a dog getting spayed? I...
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    penny got spayed! poor girl...

    Well we finally got it done today. Dropped her off early in the morning and then I had to work all day while worrying. But everything went well, they spayed her and also removed one dew-claw (she had an extra one). She's doing fine now but really drugged up. Now I have to keep her calm for a...
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    Help with a name???

    Well for anyone who's read my post " would it be weird to call" we got it settled. My hubby called today and left a message, she called back a couple of hours after appologizing very much. She said she'd been so busy and they'd had some problems getting everything in order with Penny's mom coz...
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    would it be weird to call?

    I have sort of an " issue" going on. We bought our Shetland Sheepdog last year (she just turned a year march 9th) we did our breeder research etc. (maybe not as well as we should have) and went to visit and asked questions. The price of the pups was $600 which was pretty much what all other...
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    I dont know what to do... :(

    i'm so upset... my stepsons hamster got out again. It has like a million times before but we always find it right away. We finally fixed the cage so he couldn't get out anymore. Well now my stepson must have not closed the lid on properly last time he took him out coz yesterdaymorning the...
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    Dull puppyhair??

    Hello! My sheltie penny is almost a year now and her coat has grown in quite nicely:) It's shiny and looks really healthy. There is only one things... around her ears her hair is much different than the rest of her hair. It's really soft and much duller of colour (more brown rather than...
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    who do you get to take care of your dog?

    Does anyone ever go away without their dog? And if so who do you get to take care of him/her? We're going away for two weeks in May and I'm having such a hard time finding someone to look after my " zoo" The cats/hamster/fish/lizzard isn't such a problem. It's finding someone who's willing to...
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    wintertime (imageheavy!)

    Just wanted to show some pictures of Penny in the snow, she really loves it!:) anyone else's dog crazy about snow as well?
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    My baby is in heat!!

    Well Penny finally has gone into heat. At ten months of age. She is bleeding quite a bit and is very clingy to me but other than that she's doing good. I know we should have gotten her spayed, we just weren't able to save up the money up until recently and then we felt it was better to wait...
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    Removing Dew Claws??

    hello, first of all HAPPY NEWYEAR!!! to everyone. Haven't been around in a while, been really busy with work. We are wanting to spay our sheltie within the near future, and when we had first talked about that with our vet she suggested that we'd get Penny's Dewclaws removed at the same time...
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    biting out of frustration?? Need help!!

    My sheltie is 8 months old now and she's a really good dog. She knows sit and stay and down etc. when she feels like it (like most dogs at this age) Her chewing on our walls has gotten a lot less, and when she is mouthing when we play when I tell her no she'll usually stop and start licking me...
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    My fast growing sheltie:)

    Penny is getting so big! I just thought I'd share some pictures She went from this: to this: amazing how fast they grow up eh!
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    59 kittens...

    I was going through the " free pets" section of the Supershopper today. That is a local magazine here that exists only out of add's that people can put in there for free all they ask is that you buy the magazine in return. As I started reading I was just shocked and I had to count.... 59...
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    is this too much money or normal??

    Hello, I just posted about a rescue dog that we are looking to adopt... We were gonna make an appointment to go see her this saturday and very much looking forward to it, we were just waiting to see the adoption policies and how much the fee was. I was thinking around $100... turns out...
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