Written by Marjie

We adopted Skye from SEBCRL in Florida, November 15th, 2002. Skye was apx 2 1/2 years old when we got her from the rescue. We have 4 girls, and we wanted a young dog, but not a pup. We had our eye on a traditional black and white border collie on the web page. She was 1 year old. When we went up to see her, we met a high drive girl who made our heads spin. She was way too much for our family. Jerri had several other dogs in mind that would fit into our family. We looked at the other dogs. One was Nann, very sweet, but too sneaky about stealing kibbles for me! She now has a wonderful home of her own. Another was a little too shy. We finally narrowed it down to Skye. Skye does not "look" like what we were expecting. She is blue merle, not B/W. She has funny 2 color party eyes, not brown. She IS all we hoped for and much more though, in a BC! Skye was a bit shy of my girls for the first few weeks. We let her take her time to get to know our children. The children had a hard time waiting for Skye to come to them. Their patience, paid off though, as Skye found fun things to do with each. We let Skye make the first moves to play with the girls too. She now has special things to do with each one. My oldest likes to take Skye to the park for calm walks. Skye gets so excited when she sees Lisa is home from college for a weekend! The next oldest loves to sneak Skye a goodie or two, and pet her when she is calm... The next is a sporty girl, and likes to do agility with Skye. They love toss games too. The youngest girl in our home is a wheelchair child. Skye was afraid of her at first. Skye now has several special things she does with with our youngest girl Donna. She gets so excited to hear that school bus bring Donna home! Donna always gives Skye an extra special goodie and plays a toss game. I am home with Skye most days. She loves to cuddle up with my husband. We feel like Jerri did a great job matching our Skye to us as a family. She took into consideration all the things we wanted in a dog. We did have to work through a few things. Jerri helped with those too. I think it took about three months for Skye to come out of her shell, and KNOW that she was really here to stay. Skye had several homes that we know of before us. Her breeder, and first homes are unknown. She had heartworms, and was to be PTS at the shelter as a stray. SEBCRL took her in had her cured of HW. She then found a wonderful new family. Skye and the other doggies did not get along. Skye, being the new girl, had to come back to the rescue. We met Skye there. It now seems like we have had Skye always, and this is the last stop for her. OUR Rescue girl RULES!!!!

Marjie, Skye

P.S. NO, I am NOT an Aussie with a tail!!! I'm glad this is my home and forever family!