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we had a friend visit for the week so Nova got to show her our favorite spot 🫶

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024 #it’s the one spot where we are away from the village and from people and from their gossip

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im back❤️

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024

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Nova is being kept busy while i’m gone, i’m told he makes his presence well known to anyone in the house

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024 #who would’ve predicted! #nova would be loud and part of any party going on!

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dropping off Nova at my dad’s. tomorrow i leave for Sicily for two weeks where i’ll give a talk at the european cetacean conference on the research i’ve been doing! i’ll miss my partner in crime

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024 #i might just die talking in front of everyone #but at least there will be sun and warmth!

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exploring

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024 #nova gets the zoomies when the trail gets muddy???? #meanwhile i’m over here skiing down these trails instead of walking

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my cutiepie🫶

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024

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MUD!!!

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024

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he whined bc he couldn’t play with them

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024 #this ended up being a huge cuddle pile #i needed this after my landlord threatened to call the cops and the SPCA on me lmao

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What the fuck do the french expect me to do? I have my landlord threatening to call the SPCA bc I keep Nova at my apartment while i’m at my internship and he sometimes barks when he looks out the window (the landlord issue deserves its own post bc that’s a whole ass issue) and I’ve had multiple coworkers asking what I do with Nova while I’m working. And I know they’re judging bc « he stays home ». I’m gone for 8hrs a day. A normal, regular work day.

Sorry but what the fuck do you expect me to do? Have Nova wander freely in town while I’m working? Bring him with me at work at the research lab? Like what the fuck are people on? What kind of drugs do they do in this dumbass region? People hear ‘dog’ and ‘apartment’ and immediately go to neglect. I’m so sick of it.

#text #dogblr #sheltie #Nova #i’m so fucking sick of this

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lisan al-gaib…

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024 #DUKE OF ARRAKIS

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Totally not waiting for a treat

#so pretty

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see i find him EXTREMELY sheltie-y, much more than most of them that i see! i think he does a fantastic job of executing on the whole "scaled down rough collie" thing without acquiring Little Dog Face like so many do. he has such a handsome profile, not to mention coat :)

But see, to me that’s not the point of a sheltie. Shelties aren’t mini-collies. Nova looks like a mini-collie, not a *sheltie* sheltie. I look at European shelties and they look completely different.

I kinda don’t get how a breed can look so drastically different from one region to another, kinda defeats the purpose of having a breed to me?

And you’re too nice about his coat!! :’)

#ask #sheltie #i prefer the look of the european sheltie tbh…. #obv i love my dog but he looks like trash next to them #he’s too big boned #his face structure is all wrong #his ears too big #all he has going for him is his eyes #and they’re not even symmetrical

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like i know he’s a sheltie and all, but i question it everytime we see another sheltie here. he’s twice their size. he looks like a mutant next to them. What is up with american shelties? why so different? they look like two different breeds

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #people half believe me when i tell them he’s also a sheltie #i have to tell them he’s american #and he’s oversized #but i can see in their eyes they don’t believe me whatsoever #i mean he does look like a failed experiment #like someone tried to draw a sheltie by memory and got this

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let me just, scoot in here and give u a heart attack..

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #(he was leashed)

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Nova is still incapable of sitting normally good lord

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #nova #2024

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Koa may not have a yard to look after anymore, but she does have her own city she needs to take care of now.

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #koa #2024 #next step : earth

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stop. bark. go.

#dogblr #sheltie #shetland sheepdog #koa #2024 #if you want to stop you must be ready to justify it with the correct paperwork