You might be a Sheltie lover if…
- Your Sheltie is better groomed than you are.
- Your alarm clock walks on four feet.
- You know your Sheltie’s names better than your kids.
- Your Sheltie has a better place on the couch than you do to watch TV.
- Your vacuum is a shop vac.
- Your Sheltie eats before you do.
- Your Sheltie has more toys than your kids.
- You snuggle closer to the Sheltie than the person with whom you are sleeping.
- Your mom calls and asks how the granddogs are.
- Every gift you ever get has something to do with Shelties.
- Your cookie jar has never seen the likes of people cookies.
- Your children (wife, husband, etc.) complain that you always take more pictures of the Sheltie(s) than you do of them.
- While proudly showing off your family album, your guest asks, "Isn’t there anyone else in your family besides a Sheltie?"
- Any conversation you’re having is effortlessly directed back to the topic of Shelties.
- Your first concern when planning a vacation is whether or not the hotel will take dogs.
- Your Sheltie decides they don’t like someone and you tend to agree.
- Your desk proudly displays your Sheltie family.
- The first question you ask when on a date is: "So, do you like dogs?"
- You buy a bigger bed that will comfortably sleep six.
- You buy a bigger vehicle to give them all enough travel room.
- Your carpeting matches the color of your Sheltie – on purpose.
- You readily allow your Shelties to give you slobbery kisses, but you don’t dare wipe a toddler’s nose.
- You’ve traced your Sheltie’s family tree further than you have your own.
- Sheltie hair in food is just another spice.
- The guardians of your dogs will receive a larger amount of insurance policy money than will all other members of your family – combined.
- Lintwheels are on your shopping list every week.
- You have baby gates permanently installed at strategic places around the house, but no babies.
- You talk about your Sheltie the way other people talk about their kid.
- Your mother in law keeps asking when you are going to have real children.
- You visit Sheltie Nation each & every day. :)


