Born To Twinkle Kennel - FCI
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For the love of the true British type Sheltie. All dogs live inside and our puppies grow up in the living.
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Being a breeder and a perfectionist, I have always wanted the best for my dogs. But then I got sick. Or in fact I was already sick, but didn't really realize it. Anyway, I got sicker and sicker and eventually needed a wheelchair for longer distances. My goodness, a wheelchair. How would I be able to handle a pack of eight dogs from a wheelchair? I didn't even had a car, I always traveled by public transport and took the dogs along. They were used to it and behaved very well. However, now I had this wheelchair and I had no idea how to use that thing (you need both arms!) and handle 8 dogs and 8 leashes.... Fortunately I wasn't fully wheelchair-bound, I still was able to walk some distance, and my granny bought me the most beautiful present I will ever have: an electric cargo bike. That way I was still able to take the dogs out and keep myself healthy and strong, in the best way that I could. That bike has given me back my freedom. In the meantime I trained my dogs to get used to the wheelchair. I somewhat hided the fact that I had a wheelchair. I didn't want to show it here as it didn't fit to my idea of how to handle a big dog pack. In my head a pack leader should be a strong person, strong in both ways, physically and mentally. Just balanced in all ways. I knew I had to found back balance and it would take some time. I needed time to get used to this new situation. I started a new page, a blog page, and shared my stories and struggles on that page. This page however, my kennel page, was not that active anymore for a while. I just didn't know how to combine both things, being a breeder / having a big dog pack and being chronically sick and user of a wheelchair. It seemed like an impossible mission. However, my dogs are my world and I didn't want to give up on them. So, while somewhat hiding myself for the outside world (I wrote under another name), I worked hard and found myself ways to deal with the whole situation. Now, almost a year since I knew I was about to get a wheelchair, I think I am ready to share my story on this page. Because I eventually managed it. I have my electric cargo bike. I have a wheelchair. I still have my dog pack and my puppies are going to be 1 year old soon. Recently I traveled with two of my dogs to Amsterdam, I took my wheelchair and traveled by public transport, visited a lecture and slept with the dogs in a hotel room. People were amazed by their behaviour, I got a lot of compliments when having breakfast in the restaurant, with both dogs (one only 10 months) next to me. Another time I took the whole pack to my mum, a 5 hour-travel by train, all by wheelchair. Puppies were only 6 months then. We were overloaded with responses from the public. Huge compliments I got on the behaviour of my pack. However, there is still work to do. We have our struggles, of course we have. But life isn't perfect, is it? And why striving for perfection, when perfection doesn't even exist? So, here we are. It's a new year, it's almost Spring time and I don't want to hold back any longer. This is my dog pack and I am proud of them! Yes, we still have a lot to work on. Things may take a little longer, but hea, we have time. So, this is us. Sometimes our walks are by bike only (then the dogs run next to the bike), sometimes I am able to normally walk some distance, sometimes I take the puppy trailer (I then use it as some kind of walker), and sometimes my leg-function is so bad that I need my wheelchair. But in the end we managed it, we found our ways. No more hiding from now on.
