And in the bad news category... Vash started coughing a few days ago (sometimes gaging). I thought he had just gotten something stuck in the back of his mouth (a string, or peice of bark that was tickleing his throat) and he was acting pretty normal.
But when he lost intrest in his food unless I hand fed it to him, and sounded like an old smoker when we went on our walk this morning I decided a trip to the vet was in order.
The vet told me Vash has an upper respatory infection, tossed him on some amoxacillin (i probably spelled that horribly), and banned him from any events with other dogs for the next 2 weeks.
I was looking forward to seeing some other shelties, seeing vash's reaction to them, and getting a chance to talk to everyone but it looks like we will not be attending this time.