Its Our 11th ANNIVERSARY SHOW!
This show is open to anyone with a sheltie of any persuasion.
Visit the classes and enter your furkids!
These include pets and pet classes for owner, not just conformation for breeders.
The Show is Gearing up to Start on April 2, 2008
and will close October 2, 2008
6 Months of FUN!
Our Judge is Joanna P. of Primo Shelties
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This Show is Dedicated to the Memory of Melissa Hensley and Her furkids
Especially Mystery
Their Page 1 and Melissa's Club
Here is a short bio about Melissa as part of our dedication:
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Some people exist, most people live, and a few embrace life and live each day like it was their last. Melissa Hensley not only embraced life, but was an example to all of us of how life should be lived. June 26, 2007, her incredible journey ended. There were so many things she loved. Her family, friends, music, knitting, volunteer work, working with children, dog obedience, agility, freestyle, herding, pet therapy, mystery novels, Star Trek, blue Gatorade, hollow chocolate bunnies, Peeps, sweet potato muffins, to name a few. But at the top of the list were Sherlock, Mystery, Shandy, Spense, and Kinsey, her beloved furkids. As her best friend, Susie, said, if you wanted to make Melissa happy, don't do something for her, do something for her dogs. She always put them first. To say Melissa was generous is an understatement. She spent her life giving her time, money, and energy to others, human and animal, to make their lives better. She was a constant in a rapidly changing world. You always knew that Melissa would be there to make life better. Even though she is not here on earth, her spirit can still be felt. She will live on in all she touched. We are all better people for having known her. The Sheltie that introduced Melissa to all of us and the world was Mystery, U-CD Jo-Lyn's Mysterious Treasure UD, RN (x's 3), ASCA-CD, AX, AXJ, NAP, NJP, NAC-V, RV-N, HT, HCT, CGC, TDIAOV, Bronze Bar Muscial Freestyle, Honorable Mention in the First & Foremost System and Member of the Tennessee Animal Hall of Fame. Never has there been such a team as Melissa and Mystery. Mystery was beautiful, smart, sassy, and boy did she have fashion sense! There has never been a Sheltie, never been any dog, that looked as good in a hat as Mystery! And let us not forget her dresses. OH MY! Mystery adored Melissa as much as Melissa adored her. Mystery would do anything for Melissa, as she would for Mystery. They were a dream team to watch in the ring. But, with all of the titles, noting was more important to them as touching the lives of children and the elderly. Mystery would perform a Fire Safety Skit for the children in schools all around their area. That skit is what put them in the Tennessee Animal Hall of Fame. They went weekly to area nursing homes to help brighten the days of people sometimes forgotten by the rest of the world. And, most of all, they visited the Johnson City Children’s Hospital. Many of the children were there for cancer treatments, some had traumatic injuries, all needed the special care that only Mystery, AKA Nurse Love, could provide. It is sad when our beloved pet dies. It is devastating when a pet outlives their owner. None of us thought that we would have to say good-bye to Melissa before Mystery. But, God works in mysterious ways, or as in this case, Mystery Ways. I feel that God left Mystery to comfort those who Melissa left behind. On March 8, 2008 Melissa called to Mystery, "Come dance with me, the best is yet to be." Thank you, God, for Melissa and Mystery and the memories and love they have left behind. Sheila J. Johnson Melissa’s Forever Friend |
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