ask me about collie pedigrees

RJ / 23 / US / dog show groupie and bucket bitch in training

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Hi, I'm RJ! I'm 23, American, and I draw under the name @theartdaleterrier ! I have been obsessed with dogs since I was very little, and beginning in October 2022, have been attending dog shows and just started showing myself in August 2023.

This is my childhood dog, Ashley (the Labrador. The Berner is my grandparents' boy George). Ashley passed in 2012, George in 2020. The puppy picture was taken c. 2000, and the ones of Ashley and George were taken in 2011-12.

These are my* ferrets, Pupi (albino) and Slicci (*my sister's). They both passed in April of 2021.

This is my sweet girl Riley the Goldendoodle. She's my neighbour's dog, but I experienced vicarious dog ownership through her. I dogsat her and walked her every day for years. 9 Nov 2006 - 26 Oct 2023.

This is Haze and Miles, the office dogs at my work! They're both Border Collies, and they're both fetch addicts.

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Every day I tell V he is beautiful and special and will be a GCHP2 someday right now he just looks like a fetus

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I do NOT want to work this week I want to SLEEP!

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Today's kennel highlights:

Max after it rained (he was very happy)

Muk after rolling in mud after it rained (he is white)

And Cheekoh's enormous paw

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Something tells me V doesn't want to go to work today

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Wow FB is the gift that keeps on giving today. Not the "accidental" litter of merle Beauceron wolfdogs

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Wow the amount of people who think debarking/bark softening is like a paramount cruelty is insane

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Also the amount of people I encounter who will tell you that no amount of training will get a Collie not to bark excessively is insane. I had multiple friends who did not believe that Sweeper COULD bark because he never did. Vaughn I have been a little more lenient with but this weekend when all the other Collies were barking and playing, he played silently and occasionally snapped his teeth. I am God's worst dog trainer and I managed to make it work. Idk

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Someone posting on FB wondering if a Jagd or a Japanese Terrier is better for their pet home situation. I do not think you could have picked two terrier breeds more different

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Somebody is awful pooped after spending two days at his stepdad's house 🥺

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Lap dog

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@noir-et-feu (won't let me tag your other blog for some reason) I had hoped to draw more but alas. One (1) Malinois

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😍

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Mr the Mung Bean, hiking on a Spring day.

With occasional breaks to stop and smell the flowers.

The Bean likes to do, but he likes to take the time to enjoy the doing as well.

Silken Windhound

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something I’ve noticed about Kep, which surprised me bc I always thought it was instinctual, is that he does not know how to dig. never has. he will paw at his bed or the floor when he’s getting ready to sleep, but only ever with one leg at a time. I have never seen him do the left-right-left-right alternating standard digging motion. it’s always left-left-left-left and sometimes he’ll switch to right-right-right-right but never does he alternate feet. it’s also only with bedding, never in the yard. Stellina has always liked to dig ever since she was a puppy (mostly in water but she also has a nice little scrape under my lilac bush she naps in) and Boone was a big digger who made several upsettingly large holes in my yard. I feel like Kep would love digging based on his general penchant for destruction, so maybe it’s a good thing he’s never figured it out.

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i really really like this post

does your dog know how to dig?

ohhh yeah

yes but they are nonpracticing

no. my dog is innocent.

Remaining time: 1 day 23 hours

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I drew this during the seminar I attended last month and yes it was a mistake to attend a seminar after driving 9 hours overnight, sleeping for an hour in a parking lot, and then spending 12 hours on my feet at a dog show. I was very tired

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I am going to DRAW tonight. Holding myself to it. Or something