Recent content by Liza0714

I am so sorry you and your boy are going through this. One of my prior dogs had vestibular disease which meant she couldn't do stairs on her own. She was a border collie and weighed a bit more than a sheltie but I found it helpful to lift and support her legs with an old pashmina shawl I had...

Mine are bell trained but the younger one doesn't really get it yet. He waits until I ask him if he needs to go out and then he rings the bell....oh well he will figure it out eventually. I trained them the same way, but I waited until time I knew they would have to go; after meals, first...

I started peeking in the commercial forums because my youngest dog, 10 months old, eats so slowly and always has compared to his sisters but then I stumbled into this thread. My girls are very similar size, both about 17" at the shoulder, the older one slightly more active but we have stopped...

You need to go back to potty training 101. WITH A LEASH. No unleashed access to the backyard UNTIL she goes. Only say potty once, take her to the potty area, no talking, no games, nothing until they go. This may take 10 trips on the leash before they go. No negative reinforcement. Oh and...

Finn doesn't really watch TV but he likes to watch videos on youtube, and he loves to play games on the ipad. https://www.facebook.com/Long-Island-Shetland-Sheepdog-Rescue-Inc-112369952127596/

Is he your first sheltie? Some of them are obsessive barkers. I have three, one rarely barks at all, one barks when excited only and the third, bless he heart, barks constantly. When I come home, when I sit down, when I stand up, when we go outside, when we come inside, when the others play...

I try very hard not to anthropomorphize my dogs and for the most part I am fairly successful, but two of my three have come from the same rescue which occasionally has meet ups. My oldest dog who is not from this rescue, is occasionally reactive to other dogs. But at these meet ups she is has...

My dogs are on raw. My 27lb, very active, very fit 4yo eats 3 cups of food a day as maintenance. It is half meat, 1/4 "grain" (rolled oats, brown rice and beans, or quinoa) and 1/4 veggie (finely chopped parsley, green beans, etc and coarse chopped carrots). I am planning on going back to...

I give my one pup, who has a tendency to barf in the car a couple of jelly beans before we get in the car and then a few more once she jumps in. They seem to settle her stomach. Just make sure they aren't sugar free.

Colonel underpants is lucky to have an owner who is willing to listen to what he is wanting to do instead of just what the owner wants to do. There used to be a guy in our intro agility classes who would get frustrated and drag his dog around by the leash. It's the worst. My willow was off...

I think I got my younger dog because sable Merle is sort of unwanted by breeders. The rescue she came from said she was one of only a handful of dogs a breeder in upstate ny was willing to surrender in a potential abuse/hoarding case. He likely gave her up because she wasn't able to be used as a...

Wow Callie is gorgeous, besides the coloring her face is so cool, half white and blonde. Thanks for the info about the coat, I was thinking the grey might be temporary since she didn't have it when wwe got her in March.

My younger sheltie is a sable merle and has some nice grey markings on her face and back, but as she is getting older, she is also getting some black on her back that is obscuring the grey on her back. My question is will all of her grey areas turn black eventually as the overlay comes in...

The three month mark was also very frustrating with our puppy mill rescue Sheltie. She seemed to be back sliding in every way, housebreaking, coming to put on her leash (some what rare occurrence initially in our house too), was the even getting along well with the other dogs. Now 6 months in we...

A year later..... It's been just over a year and some of my opinions on her and Shelties in general have changed. First, she is not lower energy than a bc. Maybe it took a while to get comfortable or maybe she was sensitive to the fact I was ill the first few months, but now she has that...