Archives: March2009

• Layla’s Charm

  The other day we were visiting one of our favorite Sheltie blogs, Reilly the CowSpot Dog. If you haven’t already, you should drop by and read all about Reilly’s adventures! http://cowspotdog.blogspot.com/ Reilly’s mom had found these great little Sheltie Charms on one of their adventures, and she was sharing three of them with some of their readers. How fun is that? Well, we had a nice suprise in the mail today, a super cute card with Reilly on it, and [...]

• Teeter Training

  Layla has been playing around on her booja board and her little tippy plank thing for a while now, so I thought maybe it was time to get out the real teeter and give it a try. Honestly, I was expecting something along the lines of what Rogue did when she learned the teeter. She just ran as fast as she could to the end and banged that teeter as hard as she could. LOL I think Rogue got satisfaction [...]

• Sad Day for Rescue

  This day has been a long time in coming, sadly. We have a “rescue/sanctuary” (that I will leave unnamed) in our area that was started by a very well intentioned, intelligent, caring person. However, in the last couple of years her good intentions have outweighed her reasonableness. As a result, she has taken in far more animals than she can care for properly. Our all breed rescue has tried helping her take dogs to adoption events, only to have her [...]

• The Fetching Bag

  So, we’ve been putting together a little bag full of items with all kinds of different textures that Layla can fetch. Here’s a picture of what she’s got in her bag. We started out with just basic stuffie type toys, and we’ve been adding things to the bag as time goes on. The plastic pudding cup is one of her personal favorites. LOL I took some pictures of her fetching some of the stuff, but my lighting was worse than [...]

• Layla’s teeth

  If you have a weak stomach, and can’t stand the site of a little blood, I apologize in advance! For anyone else though…Layla had to go to the vet today to have some baby teeth pulled that just refused to come out on their own. If you’re like my husband you won’t appreciate these next pictures at all, but I couldn’t believe how long the roots were on these two canines. I just had to take a picture and share. [...]

• Weekend Update

  This week is getting away from me quicker than I expected. LOL We had a really nice weekend! Friday started off with an obedience lesson for Twist and Raven. We have lots and lots to work on before the Utah Sheltie Specialty at the end of April. That’s good though. Saturday and Sunday we spent at the DOCNA trial. I only had Zoe entered, but then they offered day of trial entries, so I broke down and entered Raven for [...]

• Hurry Up and Wait!

  The next few days are going to be busy. I am sitting waiting right now for a client to pick up their dog. I hate waiting for people. It seems like that’s what a majority of my time is spent doing with the boarding kennel. Waiting for people to pick-up/drop-off dogs. It wouldn’t be so bad if you could count on them showing up at a specific time, but you just can’t. People tell you that they’ll be there at [...]

• Layla in Snow
• Surprise! More Snow…Lots More Snow!

  We were supposed to be going to Salt Lake today to train with the dogs, but those plans have changed now! We got up to 9 inches of snow this morning and it’s still coming down. I think this might be the most snow we’ve had from one storm all year. Bleh! Just when everything had melted and the mud had dried out so we could play outside again, here we’ve got another batch of snow. LOL (Glad I resisted [...]

• Rogue Update 03-05-09

  I have a little ranting to do…and a little raving too. Bear with me. LOL I got ahold of Dr. Overall and she agreed that it would be appropriate to add amitriptyline to Rogue’s daily meds at this point since we haven’t seen progress with the fluoxitine alone. I spoke with the vet here in Salt Lake today shared her recommendations, and he agreed to call in the prescription. Here is my rave. The vet in Salt Lake asked me [...]