Archive for month: March, 2009

Animal Rights……

Categories:Animal Welfare

The animal rights movement is very scary and filled with lies…. I think on the surface it sounded good but the truths and underlying agendas are wrong. Please do your homework before giving money or support to these groups. You can google ” the truth about HSUS and Peta” and read what they are really […]

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Extreme Sheepherding

Categories:Odds and Ends

This is funny and now I don’t feel so bad wasting some time on FB!!!!

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Pierre

Categories:Odds and Ends

Today is the icky day 3 years ago that I helped my friend Diana thru one of the worst things in life…. the loss of a soulmate. Here is a link to her posts of Pierre. Pierre was a loveable dorkus. He would do anything in his power to help you….. and most of the […]

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Changes to the standard…..

Categories:The Sable Merle Collie

The standard as it is now and the changes I think should be done below… ColorThe four recognized colors are "Sable and White," "Tri-color," "Blue Merle" and "White." There is no preference among them. The "Sable and White" is predominantly sable (a fawn sable color of varying shades from light gold to dark mahogany) with […]

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HDOC ~AKC 09

Daneen ran Ella on Sat and their Jumpers run was pretty nice until Ella got sucked into a OC tunnel.The Standard run was looking good until Ella got on the table and said "WAIT a minute… YOUR not my mom!!!" Then she ran out of the ring to look for me….. Sun I ran her […]

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Survey handed out at Tom Coen SM meeting CA 3/21/09

Categories:The Sable Merle Collie

Note that there are 5 lines given to explain keeping the standard the way it is now and 2 lines to explain why you would like the standard changed. 4-5 of the people on the Standard Review committee are against SM's and or against the change of the standard… level playing field from the get […]

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Sable merle committee presentation at CCA ~ Update

Categories:The Sable Merle Collie

The following is to correct any misconception about the times for the seminars and meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 7.   The following are the correct times.   Please disregard all other times that have been posted.       7:30 am registration for Breeders Education      8:00am to 11:30am Seminar      Massachusetts Room – Storrowton Tavern      11:30 […]

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Informal Sable Merle meeting by Tom Coen in CA

Categories:The Sable Merle Collie

After finding out Tom Coen would be in town for a judging assignment (Shelties) I wrote him in regards to the Sable Merle issue being presented at this years National.I spoke with Tom Tuesday afternoon about having a short meeting after Saturday's Specialty show in Claremont. Tom is the Chairman of the Standard Review Committee […]

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Ella ~ DART USDAA 09 ~ AD Jumpers

On the AD Jumpers course Ella was listening and running fast. She knocked a bar…. which she hardly EVER does and I gave her a right when it should have been a left and I said OUT instead of GO at the end and she did just what I asked her to do…. she went […]

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Ella ~ DART USDAA 09 ~ AD Standard

Ella and I only ran three runs at the USDAA trial this weekend. Sat run was pretty awful…. she sort of flipped me off at the weaves so I carried her off the course.She HATES being carried off. On Sun we ran AD Standard first and it had some good stuff and a total flying […]

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