Recent content by DoomsDay

Well, today Buster decided to take a running fit and skidded right over the keyboard to my laptop. I didn't notice at the time but he popped one of the keys off it. When I did notice, I immediately started looking for it. I found it! It was in his mouth. Sadly, he had chewed it up beyond...

Actually the roomba is on its 6th gen. Really its only the 4th model update as the second upgrades are the 4th gen series. As for pets, I have 2 roombas both 415 model and you want to add a little fun, try running them both in the same room at the same time lol. The dogs don't know what to...

My Roomba is the 4th gen version. 415 model. Woot had them on sale and I finally couldn't pass it up. I am very impressed with mine. I couldn't believe all the hair it got from the two furbies. Roxie loves the big vac. She feels she has to protect us from that evil loud monster. Its more fun...

I just recently bought a roomba and was afraid that my two shelties would think it was a play thing. Actually Roxie always wants to attack the big vacuum but Buster wants to run and hide. Now that I have a roomba, Roxy is kinda scared of it but is intrigued also. So she likes to lay on the couch...

Many many years ago we adopted a wire terrier mix. He was an ugly thing balled up in the corner of his cage. He caught my wifes eye and she knew at that instant that she wanted him. He was extremely shy and scared of everything that moved. The vet told us that he would probably only get a little...

My 5 month old pup LOVES to lick feet and legs. He will actually follow you around and every time you stop he starts licking the back of my legs. I wonder if this is the first part of them learning to herd hehe.

A question on collar use with shelties. Do you keep a collar on your dog all the time even when your not training? If so, what kind do you use? That has been a concern for me since the sheltie has so much hair, I am worried about having a collar on them all time and having it wear down the hair...

My 2 year old Roxy has no food drive at all and very little play drive with toys. The one thing she really likes is the rope and she will bring it to us to play tug of war with. When outside, nothing, not even the rope interests her. When she has done her business, her play time is wanting to...

Ok, by allowing her to shift from the down position, do you mean for me to give her the free command? My down for her is also a stay. She is not supposed to get up from that till I give her the free command. So, would it be better for me to tell her no when she barks and force her to move and...

When I give roxy her command for down, she always seems to want to bark once or twice as she is going down. She doesn't do it for sit or come or even the free command. Out of all the dogs I have had over the years, she is my first sheltie/mix and frankly the first dog I ever tried to teach...

Yeah, I like to be a little creative in some of the things I do. The one downside to picking klingon is if I ever actually went to a star trek convention and took my dog, she would probably be very confused hehe.

I had a dog many years ago (he was about 5 at the time) when I first moved to charlotte. He decided one night to grab a tube of super glue off the living room table and ate the glue out of it. He woke us up in the middle of the night whimpering. We awoke to a dog who had glued the tube to his...

When teaching my dog Roxy on the down/stay command, I chose an interesting and geeky word for her free command. I chose a Klingon word (from Star Trek) MajQa' which means well done! or very good! in Klingon. You can be extremely creative when it comes to the words your giving to them for...

Just wanted to stop in and say Hi to all or as they say here in charlotte. Hey! I am a transplanted West Virginian. Been living here for about 20 or so years. I have been a Sheltie lover for a long time and have finally gotten to the point in my life where I could actually own some. I just found...