Not sure if you're familiar with the crazy quirks Shelties are known to have, but they can sure drive you crazy!

For one reason or another, a normal activity you might perform is processed in the brain of a Shetland Sheepdog as an opportunity to start barking, spinning rapidly in circles and all in all creating a veritable cacaphony of sounds that makes one desire to close all the windows in the house so that the neighbors don't start complaining!

Here are merely a few of the weird behaviors our three Shelties (Lily, Lyric and Declan) have been known to show during the course of a day...

Breakfast Banter: In the early moring, there's the "lets-all-act-like-idiots" session. This involves all three of them barking and turning in circles when my bride picks one of them up to take outside for a special potty run. This extra potty run is necessary because the dog in question, Lyric, is so excited and expectant for her breakfast that she'll merely squeeze out a few drops to satisfy me when I we make our first potty run in the morning.

Vicious Vaccuum: Heaven forbid someone (a.k.a., my bride) attempts to use the vaccuum! If that activity occurs, it's pandomoniu and a free for all There's insane barking,  attacks on the wheels and any other part of the machine that's avaialbleand evenan occassional altercation between the dogs themselves in the event one tries to out-do the other i its stupidity. Needless to say it's a chore and a half. And, having long-haired dogs, we go through a number of vaccuums...can anyone suggest one that does the suck up dogs' hair AND last for more than a year or so

Watering Can Wails: In the Sping/Summer season, we must endure our dogs' concerted objections to having our watering cans filled rom the garden hose. For some reson the sound of the cans being filled causes our troop to stop whatever they're doing, race ful speed to to where the "crimes" being committed and upon arrival try to convinve the iffending party to cease and desist any and all activities relative to obtaining aquifiers to quench the thirst of our budding flaura.

Telephone Tirade: This behavior occurs when the phone rings and the Sheltie Mafia (a name bestowed on our Shelties by outr mailman) bark incesantly, apparently thinking we need additional audio stimuli to answer the damn thing.

Plastic Wrap Pleading: If one of the fmily opens a kitchen draw and takes out plastic wrap or tin foil, our canine contingent waits for te individual to pull the wrapping stuf out of the box. At that point al hell breaks loose once again. This behavior wasn't elicited by any of our dogs until Lily (a.k.a. Sunnebank Summer Pickalily) became a member of our pack. She went crazy just about from day one when she heard the sound of plastic wrap or tin foil being unrolled. She has since "trained" the other Shelites to join i her reverie. Thanks, Lily!

Well, gotta run right now. Seems the Shelties are barling insanely upstairs as I'm writing these last few lines. What have they gotten into THIS time?

Bye!