I just wanted to thank everyone for such a warm welcome. We also lived in Richmond, VA for 22 years and did a lot with the Richmond SPCA there and worked with Persian Cats who needed help.
People don't own setters, setters own their people. I think it's their eyes and soft personalities that make humans just plain softies. Miss Elie is a bench setter and came to us at 7 mo's old through Another Chance for English Setters. She would crawl up onto your lap and want to be held and cradled. Now, as a three year-old, there is just a little more to hold. Ash is a seven year-old Llewellin type and came through ACES also and he is my big, bestest boy. Hannah just turned one and comes from the OklahomaAWA shelter, her name should have been "Bossy." It must be the heeler in her. She is smart and very active and gets into a whole lot of trouble.
Until we moved here from NC, I had never seen a Heeler and rarely saw a Great Pyrenees and now they seem to be the dominate dog outside of Labs. From what I understand the ranchers around here use them for guarding sheep, goats, horses and cattle. They are smart and very loyal but they can be wanderers if they get outside the fence. Too many in the lost/found column of the newspaper and in shelters down here.
It's really great to see others from the Central through the lower Southern States. We have a lot of contacts from LA through VA but with each group I join, I keep meeting new people and I always enjoy that.
