Show shetland sheepdog Sheep dof cornea comes from the collie family for a breed that was not shown at cruft 8 in england before 1910 nor in to america before 1924 the shetland sheepdog has made amazing strides toward the charmed circle of what are known as popular dogs saye says a rt writer in the philadelphia ledger these dogs are also known aa as min lature collies and as a breed they teem with traits and characteristics that are at once appealing and lovable with a history that Is unique this breed of its own momentum has crasi crast ed into a very distinct place in the limelight in although one of the latest of the recognized breeds ostensibly coming as the name tin piles plies from that group of nearly little islands lying to the north of scollar d one still has to account for the pr presence esene or appearance of these dogs in a land where there Is little doubt that they were not indigenous the term shetland seems to be almost almost synonymous with smallness em allness in the whole realm of live stock originally the shetland sheepdogs were little more than a mongrel mix ture of several breeds the working collie introduced into the islands by shepherds from the mainland marked the starting point of the sheltie s independent existence these working collies were only about half the size of the show collie of today and it Is easy to see how bow they could have been made the basis of a reduced collie reilley by admixture with diminutive dogs |