New Sheltie faces in our home!

Our Sheltie family has grown this past year. We have purchased a lovely tri male pup and his younger sister.
The tri male is Jeep and has the most wonderful temperament. We have been training in agility since Oct.,2011.He is a quick study and almost ready to trial. He has been a blast to work with. He just loves everyone and keeps life very interesting. Little sister Rosie who is also a tri joined us in December of 2011. She is as cute as can be and has a lovely outgoing temperament. She is going to her first dog show in two weeks and we are excited to see how she will handle it. She is in beautiful puppy bloom so who knows maybe she will take a ribbon. 
These two pups are the last to join our family. Tri colors have always been a favorite of mine and they now make the family complete.
It will be great to go through next winter with everyone all house trained. Makes life so much easier.
I plan to spend the rest of the summer working on obedience with Rosie, Lizzie and Brooke. My goal is for a CGC certificate for all by the fall. A huge goal but one I think we can attain.


We have closed our agility shop and no longer sell equipment. With the economy the sales were very slow and not worth the effort of keeping a separate website.  I still teach agility on Tuesday mornings and my group has grown. We have about eight participants now and it really is so much fun. This is not a class for competition but for bonding with and having fun with your dog. 
This is Jeep!                                     Illusions Jopavist I Get Around 
 This is Rosie!                                 Illusions Jopavist Winter Rose
Jeep is now 15 months old and Rosie is now 7 months old. We do need to update Rosies picture.

The Shire Shoppe

I have opened a new shop, just in time for the holidays!! If you love the English Shire, which is a heavy, draft horse you will love my shop.Many beautiful pictures of the English Shire of Illusion Farm are displayed on a variety of products. You may find the perfect gift there. SHIRE SHOPPE


 
                                    Zoe, English Shire Mare from Illusion Farm
                                                                    Fryeburg, Maine

Holiday Season upon us soon!!!

The Holiday season is fast approaching. Need a special gift for the reader and book lover in the family, visit my shop and find that unusual book. Very reasonable prices and fast shipping from Amazon. I add new books weekly. Save time, fuel and money by shopping at Jopavist Best Books!

Jopavist Best Books is no longer in business. But I do have a nice shop at Cafe press. cafepress.com/shopsheltie

No Pups, so sad!

Our two litters that were expected did not materialize. One girl just completely missed. She is young so not too surprising, she will have pups some other time, when the time is right for her.

My other girl had one large pup, she was stillborn. Very sad for Ginger the mom, as after giving birth she continued for almost two days to search for her pup. The delivery was quite difficult as the pup was so large.Ginger will not chance going through this again. She will be six soon and has given us one beautiful litter. She has done her share.

But on the good side we do plan to have pups in January. We have bred our Brooke, to the lovely Ch Weststars Finders Keepers of Illusion Shetland Sheepdogs. These pups should be stunning.
Check back in a few weeks and we will know for sure if Brooke is expecting.
Once we know she is expecting we will post pictures of Brooke and Keeper on our Sheltie website.

QUALITY COMPANION PUPS AND POSSIBLE SHOW PROSPECTS!

WE ARE EXPECTING TWO LITTERS MID SEPTEMBER.

LITTER #1 JOPAVIST KEEPSAKE OF FAIR ISLE BRED TO CH JESSTAR ADONIS.
POSSIBLE SHOW PROSPECTS FROM THIS BREEDING. ALL SABLE PUPS!

LITTER #2 JOPAVIST SHES GOT RHYTHM BRED TO ILLUSIONS TRU COLORS
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT WE WILL HAVE BLUES, TRIS AND MAHOGANY SABLES.WE ARE EXPECTING OUTSTANDING TEMPERAMENT AND WORKING ABILITY!

VIST JOPAVIST SHETLAND SHEEPDOGS TO SEE THE MOMS! IF INTERESTED ADD YOUR NAME TO OUR LIST, IT IS FILLING FAST!