He wasn’t the biggest collie pup in the litter. Two others were bigger than him, and both had drifted into a sleep from which there would be no awakening. As gentle hands lifted him out of the whelping box and offered a bottle, he nuzzled into the tips of each finger, searching for his mother. […]

He had won.
He had done his master proud and he had won.
It wasn’t that he understood exactly “what” he had done to make everyone so happy. It wasn’t as if he had fought off a raging bear, or saved a lost child like Lassie would have. He hadn’t run for help or chased a thief […]

The man and his wife of many years sat at the kitchen table, coffee mugs in hand, the morning paper spread open before them. “Any for sale?” she asked. Every morning, it was like this now.
“I don’t know,” he said, adjusting his glasses as she reached for a jar, scraped it clean and spread honey […]

THE MAKING OF A NOVEL … or … “How I Wrote The Blue Ribbon”
Changing your life is easy. All you have to do is write a novel. Of course, you have to live a little before you’ve got anything interesting to say. Which means, you could end up with a house full of heartache and […]

Funny, how we never seem to know what’s just around the corner. We go about our lives: working, laughing, loving . . . and we never know how our life is going to turn out. I know this doesn’t sound like the goal-oriented thinkers that I encourage people to be. I encourage animal lovers to […]

Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to know lots of interesting animals. Horses, Dogs, Cats, Wildlife . . . If they liked people, I had a knack of getting to know them pretty well. When I started my career as an artist, animals were a natural subject for me to explore, and, growing up […]

Rescue - Wayward Collie Rescue
State - Missouri
Address - 7699 Manhattan Dr.
Phone Number - 573-483-3622
Contact Person - Linda Lutman
Area Covered (Cities / Counties) - Southern MO and IL
Website URL - http://members.petfinder.org/~MO233/index.html
History - We’ve been rescuing collies for 5 years.
Mission -  Our mission is to take in & foster, homeless, lost, & abandoned collies and provide a […]