A Dogs Life Around The House

Welcome To SunRise Shelties

	Yep Life sure is hard at Sunrise Shelties! Rowdy just being Rowdy Rusty are you comfortable???? Jeez Shelby, Can mom have her chair back???

	Amy in her favorite corner. I imagine this is where she will have her puppies. This is not a sheltie but to good to pass up. This is Titan our St. Barnard mix that I adopted 2 years ago. Keeping dads feet warm. This is Lexie my collie mix. I adopted her in Texas about 7 years ago.

Bear asleep by my chair as usual.

Emmy sleeping on the couch below Rowdy.

Date
June 2008	This is little Emmy. And when I say little that is exactly what I mean. She is very tiny. She is a double dilute blue merle with two blue eyes. Her sight is fine but she is deaf. She can hear high pitches but to just call her or talk to her in a normal voice, she is unable to hear that. She has picked up on hand signals and is very smart and very fast. There have been cases where deaf shelties were successful agility dogs.
June 2008	This is Bear (the bigger one and Emmy). They are brother and sister. Bear is also a double dilute blue merle with two blue eyes and he is also deaf with about the same degree of hearing as Emmy. I got them in June 2008 from a breeder friend of mine. She was unable to place them and I told her I would take them both. I would never consider giving up either of these little dolls. They are so smart. Bear also responds to hand signals. Both bark like normal dogs, however, their bark is a little different sounding.
June 2008	Bear and Emmy are inseperable. They are together all the time. They eat together, play together and often times sleep together or at least close by each other. Emmy will get up on our bed and look down at everyone else and bark as if to say, "hah hah I am up on the bed and they let me stay". Emmy, I will admit, had gotten a little preferential treatment as she is so much smaller and I worry about her more. I don't know why really, because she is a little stick of dynamite and about the biggest tomboy I have ever seen. She has no idea she is so little.
June 2008	Although Bear is showing his teeth in play to Emmy rest assured that Emmy can hold her own with her brother and will frequently put in down on the ground and stand over him. She is a tough little girl and she and Bear love each other like you wouldn't believe. Emmy will be spayed and Bear neutered very soon. I will not be breeding them at all.
August 2008	This is Bear. (the white dog). He is Shelby's brother and he is also deaf. Doesn't stop either of them, trust me. They bark like everyone else, and the only difference is that I do hand signals with them. They also do not have a lot of color and are mostly white. Bear is also a double dilute blue merle sheltie. He will be neutered soon. I took them as pets only. I will also keep them together.
August 2008	This is Emmy. She is deaf but otherwise no different other than lack of a lot of color. She is a double dilute blue merle. She was born deaf due to being the product of two merles being bred. This does not alway happen. Emmy is aweful small as well. She will be spayed very soon. It will just be the best thing for her. She and Bear were in the same litter and a friend of mine had them. No one wanted them because they were deaf so I told her I would take them. I am very glad I did and have kept them together. They wouldn't know what to do without each other.
Sept 7, 2008	Emmy - Sept 7, 2008 Emmy - She has grown so much and is so pretty and very smart	Bear - Sept 7, 2008 Bear - He would be lost without Emmy, they are best friends
December 6, 2008		To the left is the latest picture of Emmy doing what she does best and that is sit on the arm of her daddy's chair. Is she a princess or what????

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