#cute sheltie

[aubryjoi]

Two more for Doggust: Shetland Sheepdog & Shiba Inu! ⭐️

[sammythesheltie]

Please! Play 🥺!

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[starieldraws]

Digital painting I did of my dog

I put hours into this one layer drawing (didn’t take any wip pics) and all I got was this lousy timelapse;

[zephyrartz-owo]

I make art for meee

[ponku-po]

☀️✨💖 - shelti_chan

[sunnylighter]

Merry Christmas from my many pets

[dogcat27]

Still real small mom

[heathersnaps]

[sheltershock]

just thought about Milla talking to Sasha about something he likes (aliens and whatnot) and Sasha just starts hard core stimming. He's just standing there shaking violently and jazz hand-ing and smiling and he's so excited he can't stop stimming.

Also i think Sasha has very particular stims, like he'll do jazz hands, or he'll start shaking when excited (I do that) or he'll crack his knuckles or he'll shake his hands like you do when your hands are wet. he has so many stims. all of the stims. he's the stimmer of all time

he has this one stim where he'd squeeze the nearest thing to his hand.

one time that was milla's hand.

Milla still thinks about it every day it makes her very happy

I typically like aligning my headcanons with canon in some sort of way, but that’s just a personal preference. Sasha stimming headcanons actually land in this strange area for me because I don’t really bring up stimming for him specifically very often(in posts, in my personal headcanon doc, etc.), and I actually don’t see a lot of people being up stimming for him either. And I think there’s a very important reason for that: Sasha’s stims are really subtle.

Think about it. Throughout the games, Sasha is standing relatively still throughout. His arms don’t move really wildly like the “extreme high level autism” stereotype. And for a little while I thought that he just didn’t stim in the games. But I think he actually does.

In RoR he has that smiling and looking around animation. And compared to how stiff his movement typically is to how wide his upper body is moving, I think that motion could count as stimming. Plus, the context of that animation is that he’s in a really cool space-alien (imitation) aircraft and is naturally super excited about it.

I could only really think of two examples of stimming in PN2, in Loboto’s Labyrinth and in the plane on the way to the casino mission. When Raz meets up with Sasha after the construct starts to collapse he’s already lit a cigarette, and waving it around, due to the chaos. Though his tone of voice and general demeanor seems calm and collected, he’s actually internally freaking the fuck out. Everything he built for the mission is literally falling apart into a sensory nightmare of moist flesh, saliva and hardened calcium. Interesting note about this level, Sasha is for the only time in the games not wearing gloves. Later in the trap room, he’s just pacing around the exterior of the room aloof and unaware of his surroundings(“Sasha, how long as that golden door been there?”). Along with the pacing, Sasha actually repeatedly flexing his wrist while holding a cigarette appears several times throughout PN2. And that definitely feels like a stim to me.

The second example I have, in the plane on the way to the Lady Lucktopus, is also pretty subtle. It’s the animation when Sasha says “It’s crucial that we find out what these Deluginists are up to at the casino. With [Hollis] handling tactical command I’d say our probability of mission success has risen 35%.” While talking he’s fiddling with the room keys found on Nicks body, rattling it, waving it back and forth, at one point flicking it up and catch it… This is actually the first instance watching it happen where I said “this is just straight up stimming.” I mean it’s in the center of the screen and everything.

Headcanon-wise I typically follow patterns presented in canon, so stretches or walking around and repetitive wrist/hand movements. Stuff like absentmindedly clicking a pen, adjusting the cuffs on his outfit, cracking his knuckles(like you said), flicking his hand(like you said), maybe removing and putting his gloves back on again? But yeah, something in that range. I wouldn’t necessarily agree that “he’s the stimmer of all time,” I mean I frequently bounce/flex my legs and I couldn’t really see Sasha doing that.

I do think that he’d have a cute/sassy response if anyone saw him randomly just do a stim and question what the fuck was that. Like someone saying something stupid/redundant in a meeting, Sasha coincidentally flicking his hand, being prompted about it, and him just not skipping a beat going “sorry, that suggestion was so terrible I had to physically distance myself from that idea.”

I like the hand squeezing idea though! Like Sasha just grabbing something nearby to fiddle with in his hands, and accidentally grabbing Milla’s hand? That’s really cute. Them both getting flustered over it, and Sasha apologizing, Milla interrupting the apology to say that it’s alright, but then Sasha continuing to apologize anyway saying “the subconscious works in strange, unexpected ways to the waking mind,” and then Milla blushing in response. Really adorable.

Along with Sasha increasing the frequency of stims when he’s describing something he really likes to Milla. And she’s enjoying that she’s never sees him this animated before and can’t help but smile.

Thanks for the…ask? Was there a question…?

[cloudycorpses]

This years anniversary gift to my beloved @fawnidae 💜💙✨

Our dog Atlas who we raised together!

[kangals]

Man those crufts collies look like shelties!! You could show me one of those photos and if you don't include any size markers I would 100% believe that you were showing me two extra-pufft shelties.

haha i can see that, i think it's the huge amounts of coat + smaller facial features that's skewing their proportions! i can't say for sure how large the crufts dog were, but in the US showline dogs tend to be pretty small too (to the point where stellina, who is a good ~10lbs under standard, would have no trouble finishing a championship according to her breeder), and since the british lines already tend to skew smaller they may very well be coming up close to large-sheltie sized.

i'm not very knowledgable about the shelpies but they also have a pretty distinct split between AKC and UKC, kind of similar to the collies actually - american dogs seem to have a much blockier face than the european dogs, which can look much more delicate/almost spitz-like in my (uneducated) opinion

crufts left, national dog show (US) right - couldnt get a great screenshot of the tri the judge kept patting him (i cannot blame him)

[sammythesheltie]

Kisses for the best dad 🐶.

[novathesheltie]

you ever look over at your dog and gush about how cute their little paws are? like look at this. his feet. they’re the cutest things i’ve ever seen.

[fjordfolk]

I feel bad asking because I’m certain you already answered this a while ago, but I can’t seem to find your response anywhere - but what would your ideal sheltie look like? Like, entirely from an aesthetic standpoint (pretend it’s crufts season, throw health records out the door for a second, are there any specific dogs that make you go “wish we had more of That in the breed”?)

these in all colours:

these proportions but x-rayed:

more of whatever this guy has that makes me perfectly able to pick him apart for days but also willing to burn the standard in the streets:

[whatisshelties]

I'm sorry, but the price of puppies still gets me. Looks like we're up towards 3k for the breeds I'm interested in.

I just...have a hard time justifying that much money for something that may or may not work out for what I want to do. I'd almost rather take the adult rescue for $500.

Though I guess the real solution is that I need to go put the 3k towards a breeder that is breeding agility dogs and consistently breeds successful dogs.