Ooo, bi-eyed. Pretty face on her. :)

Thanks :D Yup she's a beautiful girl

Lovely drawing mixed with the photo like this!

Actually, me and one of my friends discussed what cross between Rough Collie and Siberian Husky might look like, a few months ago. We were out walking his lovely Siberian Husky male, when we met a lady walking a really amazingly beautiful Rough Collie female, and the two dogs happily started playing and chasing each other.

I love Rough Collies and I love Siberian Huskies, they are two of my absolute favourite breeds, and thus you can imagine that the encounter with the Rough Collie female made us ponder what the offspring might look like.

Now that I know that she is a "Hollie" I am going to have to look through all of your photos of Wahya. She is a really beautiful dog!

Aww, cute! Although I would never breed on purpose (all my dogs are rescues) :3 Wahya was the result of an "oops" litter because someone didn't spay their collie and she got out, had a little fun with a neighbor's husky (both dogs should have been fixed) but thankfully the collie's owner cared enough to find them homes instead of just dumping them in a shelter (although I saw one of Wahya's sisters in the shelter a few months after I adopted her...but she got adopted quickly, thankfully!) Some of her littermates looked more like collies (there were a few black/tan pups) a couple more like huskies (with more of a masked face) and then Wahya was sorta like the perfect mix of the two lol. She looked more like the husky when she was smaller (she had the dark eye rings, that faded as she grew), now looks sorta more like the collie, but with the husky shape, coat & ears. She gets a lot of "she looks like a wolf/coyote" comments too, and people asking me if she's a wolfdog, her name means "wolf" so lol!

She's the sweetest girl though, VERY sensitive & gentle. She grew up with my three smaller dogs and still thinks she's the same size as they are. She can be a little shy sometimes, but generally loves everyone (she even kissed a horse once at a local renn faire, when she was 6 months old - her very first encounter with a horse too lol)

Wahya sounds like a lovely dog! Mmm, my friend's husky is also on the sensitive and shy side. He's shy of everyone he has not gotten to know yet, but he is immensely sweet to everyonhe knows well.

For some reason, we do not have the problem of stray, or ownerless dogs here in Sweden. I do not know why, really, but unplanned litters are never a problem here, you just put in an ad in the newspaper, and all pups will get owners without problem, no matter if it is a strange crossbreed or not. The Swedish Kennel Club advices against spaying and neutering, because... well, there is always enough demand for every puppy that gets born here anyway, which is a good thing.

It's only when dogs have gotten a bad home, or ended up with owners that aren't right for that kind of dog, that a dog needs to be replaced into another home.

Cats however, are sadly another case, with there being many more kittens born than can ever care for them, so cats end up being ownerless, or stray, or end up in shelters. There are plenty of cat shelters about, but I have never seen or heard of a shelter for dogs here. I am not sure if this has to do with cats not costing anything, and dogs being on the other hand very expensive?

People in Sweden who wish to rescue an ownerless dog usually go to another country, like Spain or Thailand or other places where there are problems with ownerless dogs, and gets a dog there to take home.