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Herdabout Shelties
and Herdabout K-9 Academy is owned and operated by Jeff and
Kellie Whiteside, married since 1988, they have both grown up
with dogs.
Kellie got her
first sheltie at the age of 8 years old and fell in love with the
breed then. That first sheltie was Toffee Tawny of Sheldon
Kennels, and although there was no one around who did formal dog
training at the time, Kellie trained Toffee in agility, obedience, and
carting by reading books and inventing a few methods of her own.
Jeff grew up
with a variety of dog breeds and after the two got married in 1988
they decided to stick with the Shetland Sheepdog.
In 1999 Jeff and
Kellie decided to get into breeding Shetland Sheepdogs under the
kennel name "Herdabout Shelties" as well as begin
teaching Obedience and Agility. The dog training classes
started off small in their own backyard under the name
"Howling Hills Canine Academy". The dog training
business took a big turn in 2002 and was relocated off the
homestead property and the name changed to "Howl-Time Canine
Academy". Then it was decided that life would be much
easier if the dog training business was under the same name as the
kennel and so it was changed again to it's final name "Herdabout
K-9 Academy".
Both Jeff and
Kellie are accomplished dog trainers having put multiple titles on
their dogs in both agility, obedience, and conformation, as well
as having handled dogs for other owners. Jeff and Kellie are
both Licensed CGN Evaluators.
The rest, as they
say, is history. A lot of laughs, heartaches, and headaches,
along the way, but well worth every one of them with the loveable
Shetland Sheepdog
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