Reva Shelties

10/20/2026

10/05/2026

I ‘stole’ this earlier today and it made me laugh….i thought you’d enjoy it too!!

People always ask me:

“How much money do you win at dog shows?”

Oh, sweet summer child. 😂😂😂
I make exactly:
💰 ZERO DOLLARS
🪙 ZERO PENNIES
💵 ZERO CASH
🏦 ZERO CONTRIBUTIONS TO MY RETIREMENT

In fact, WINNING usually means I’m now emotionally obligated to SPEND EVEN MORE MONEY. 🤡

Let’s discuss the financial dumpster fire known as SHOWING DOGS.

First, we need the dogs. Not just any dogs.
✨ SHOW DOGS. ✨ Probably 3 to 6k each.

Everybody needs special food, supplements, grooming products, crates, beds, leads, collars and approximately 87 personal belongings.

Then we need ENTRY FEES. 💸One dog? Fine. 40 bucks a show (7x40....)
Multiple dogs? HA...

Congratulations, you have just electronically transferred your grocery money directly into the atmosphere.

But WAIT.
The show is 6 hours away!
🔥 FIRE UP THE RV. 🔥

Nothing screams “economical hobby” quite like driving a HOUSE down the interstate while getting approximately three gallons to the continental United States. 🚐⛽💀

Fill the RV. Easily a Benjamin or two every 250 miles.
Fill the truck. That baby gets a whole 8mpg!!
Drive 2 hours and Fill it again because apparently we are towing the Pentagon.

Then we arrive.

RV hookup: 💸Parking: 💸Food: 💸Dog food: 💸Bottled Water cuz tap water won't do: 💸Ice and Propane: 💸
Random crap from Walmart because I forgot something: 💸
Vendor tent purchases I absolutely DID NOT NEED: 💸💸💸

Then comes GROOMING.
Why does my dog have shampoo that costs more than mine?!?! Chris?? Chris??
My shampoo: $2.99.
Dog shampoo:

✨ HANDCRAFTED IN THE SWISS ALPS BY MONKS USING ORGANIC UNICORN COLOSTRUM — $74.95 ✨

And naturally we need:
Brushes
Combs
Dryers
Tables
Sprays
Chalk
Towels
Cooling equipment
Fans
Extension cords
Crates
Crate pads
Grooming arms
Leads in 14 colors at 150 a pop cuz we love Kangaroo Leather

At this point I could groom a Clydesdale for the Westminster Kennel Club. 🐴😂

NOW IT’S SHOWTIME.

I wake up at the witching hour, still dark and even the SUN says: “Absolutely not.” 🌚

I’m outside at 5 AM walking dogs in pajama pants, broken flip flops and no bra, while holding a flashlight and begging a my precious to p**p.

PLEASE P**P. 💩🙏🏻

This dog stares at me like:
“I will p**p when the conditions are appropriate.”

YOUR RING TIME IS 8:00.

Then we bathe everybody, groom everybody, load everybody, unload everybody, find the ring, find the armband, find the bait, find the lead…

WHERE IS MY CAFFEINE?! ☕️😵‍💫

Then I put on nice clothes and pretend I haven’t spent the previous 36 hours looking like a feral campground raccoon. 🦝

INTO THE RING WE GO.
The judge points at my dog.
🏆🏆🏆 WE WON!!!!! 🏆🏆🏆

I’m losing my mind.I am crying, Friends are cheering. Someone is taking pictures.

And my dog is thrilled because someone has chicken.

And then…
THE PRIZE. ✨✨✨ A RIBBON. ✨✨✨

That’s right.
After spending enough money to purchase a respectable used Honda…
I HAVE WON A PIECE OF FABRIC.

😂😂😂😂😂

No cash.No check.No direct deposit.
No giant novelty Gift Card.
Nobody pulls me aside and whispers:
“Congratulations. Here is $12,000.”

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Instead, I immediately spend MORE MONEY on the win photo. 📸💸

Because if I’m going bankrupt, I would at least like professional photographic documentation.

Then somebody says:
“Only 7 more points until the championship!”
And suddenly I’m on InfoDog like:
👁️👄👁️
WHERE’S THE NEXT SHOW?
THAT ONE IS 9 HOURS AWAY?!
PERFECT.

PACK THE RV.🚐💨💨💨

This is how championships happen.
Not through talent alone. Oh no.
They are forged from:

🏆 Dedication
🐶 Beautiful dogs
💪 Training
❤️ Love
⛽ 46,000 gallons of gasoline
💳 Financial irresponsibility
☕ Caffeine
💩 Strategic p**p schedules
🚐 Interstate highways
📸 Expensive photographs
😴 Severe sleep deprivation
💸 And an absolutely breathtaking disregard for your bank balance.

Eventually your dog becomes:

✨🏆 CHAMPION 🏆✨

And you stare proudly at that title thinking:“WE DID IT.”

Then your bank account whispers:
“At what cost, human?”

WE DO NOT DISCUSS THAT. 🤫

Because dog-show math is different from regular math.
$200 dinner?
❌ Absolutely ridiculous.

$200 in dog-show entries?
✅ Basically free.

$400 weekend getaway?
❌ We should save money.

$2,700 weekend chasing a major?

✅ THIS IS IMPORTANT.
New purse?
“I really shouldn't.”

New Lead to match that one outfit?
ADD TO CART IMMEDIATELY.
😂💳🔥

And God forbid somebody says:

“You know you could just have dogs as pets.”

GET OUT. GET OUT NOW. HOW DARE YOU🚪👉🏻

These are not merely pets.

These are beautiful, spoiled, expensive little athletes who travel the country eating premium food while I survive on gas-station coffee and whatever fell between the RV seats. 😂

So when you see me holding a gorgeous ribbon beside my beautiful dog, just know:

🏆 The dog won.❤️ I’m ridiculously proud.📸 We got the picture.💰 I earned ZERO PENNIES.💸 I probably spent several thousand dollars.🚐 The RV needs gas.🐶 Somebody needs to p**p.
📝 And I’ve already entered the next show.

Because this isn’t a hobby.

THIS IS AN OBSESSION
🐶🏆🚐💳🔥😂💸

And I will absolutely see you lunatics at ringside next weekend.

BRING CHICKEN. 🐔🤣

09/04/2026

Which Sheltie steals your heart? 🐾❤️

Every Sheltie has its own unique beauty and personality!

Which color is your favorite?

🖤 Black
🩶 Blue Merle
🤍 Tri (not particularly)
💙 Bi Blue
💛 Pure for sable
❤️ Mahogany Sable
✨ Sable
..or do you love them all? 🥰

They all steal my heart.

08/22/2026

🐾 SO YOU’RE GETTING INTO DOGS… WELL, BLESS YOUR HEART. 😂
Come on in, sugar. We’ve been expecting you. Go ahead and leave your money, free time and common sense at the door.
First thing you need to understand: you’re about to give up half your house and your entire life savings. The other half of the house will eventually go too—we just don’t want to scare you right off the bat.
And you better build some storage.
Because somehow 6 dogs require 30 crates, 60 bowls, 100 leashes, 47 collars, 14 grooming bags, 12 dog beds nobody sleeps in and one crate pan from 1997.
Can you throw that crate pan away?
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
It might fit something someday.
Before long, your living room is a kennel with a couch. Your dining room table is a grooming station. Your spare bedroom is a puppy nursery. And you haven’t eaten at your kitchen table since the Bush administration because that’s where the dog supplies live now.
Then there’s the garage.
Lord have mercy.
One day you’ll open that door and realize you’re one concerned neighbor away from appearing on Hoarders: Dog Show Edition.
Crates stacked to the ceiling. X-pens multiplying when nobody is looking. Grooming tables, dryers, chairs, coolers, totes and enough ribbons to decorate every pew at the First Baptist Church.
Your husband will eventually ask:
“Where am I supposed to park?”
Outside, Earl.
The dogs have a climate-controlled grooming area. Know your place. 😂
And let’s discuss finances.
You’ll stand in Walmart and say, “$5.98 for eggs?! Have these people lost their minds?”
Then drive straight to the pet store and spend $238 on dog food, shampoo and some supplement you can’t pronounce because somebody on Facebook said it makes coat grow.
The dogs eat premium food, fresh eggs, blueberries and supplements.
You’re eating a bologna sandwich over the sink.
Because we’re on a budget.
Then every six months you’ll make the big announcement:
“I’m cutting back on dogs and taking a break from showing.”
Your family won’t even look up anymore.
They’ve heard this lie before.
Three days later the premium list drops and you’re sitting there with a calculator figuring out whether

07/31/2026

And how do your shelties entertain themselves?
All in a afternoon play time.

07/19/2026

Zsa Zsa (Crossroads Pocket Full of Sunshine) - July 15, 2012 - July 18, 2026.

Zsa Zsa is Pipen's Mom. She lived with the Cyndy Ermel family since she was a pup. She leaves behind many amazing children, grandchildren, and so many more.

Thank you Zsa Zsa for my boy. I will forever miss your sweet nature and tolerance of me snuggling you and your puppies. May you have all the duck toys to play with at Rainbow Bridge.

🇨🇦

07/06/2026

CLIPPING DOUBLE COATED BREEDS

Here is a good guide as to why double coats are only clipped for medical reasons

Keeping our shelties brushed to the skin helps in temperature regulation.

03/20/2026

Are you as excited as we are to revealing who is the newest of the Reva Shelties Pack this Sunday ?
Stay tuned to see whom of Kandi's litter is our new little family litter.

03/04/2026

My little apple piranhas.
6.5 weeks old and having a taste of some yummy treats the big dogs get.
So far the Furry Piranhas have had Apple 🍎, cucumber 🥒 and a dog training treat called Rollover.

02/02/2026

Not bad for a 12 year, 5 months and 15 day young pup.

CKC GCHEX, UKC CH, Brazilian Panamerican GCH, Argentina GCH, Uruguay CH, Intercontinental CH, Cermel Hatfield Mirror Blue, CD, CGN, RA, NTD, VN, SD, Multiple Best Veteran In Shows

And now, CKC pending

RALLY EXCELLENT

Always willing to go and have fun in the ring, give 100000000% effort, and my best friend....... Ice I just love you. I smile because of you. I have been able to go and have so much fun in the ring thinks to allowing Ice to live with me since 2017. We do our sports training with Cheryl at Elite Dog Training

My best bud. What's next? Rally Masters?