Semitar Shetland Sheepdogs // About Us
This Semitar Shetland Sheepdogs website is currently owned by Eddie and Thelma Cushley. Both of us are well known in the field of Shetland Sheepdogs.
Our interest in dogs started before we were married. We decided to get a Rough Collie. This was a Tri Colour dog but he was killed at the age of six months in a road traffic accident. We thought we would never have another dog again, as it was a very painful experience.
We missed him so much we had to have another so Semitar came about. The prefix is an anagram of the letters Antrim adding S for Shelties and replacing the N in Antrim for an E.
Rough Collies were our first love and our breeding followed firstly Sandiacre lines then Rokeby. Betty Elgin of the famous Rokeby Kennels was very helpful and related stories of her friendship with Jim Saunders of the Helensdale Shelties. Due to illness Thelma could not manage the Collies and so we decided to have Shelties. We have always retained a Rough Collie up until last year when our dear Cher - Rubec Snow Simplicity died of cancer at the age of twelve.
Our first Sheltie was purchased locally in 1976 from a Mrs Balmer. She gave us a lot of fun at shows and at home and the Sheltie was here to stay.
As stated on the Champion Page in 1994 we purchased Tegwel Spring Breeze from Joan Stanley and we are grateful to her for letting us have this lovely bitch. She was our first champion and gained her English and Irish title in the same month in 1997.
Then the icing on the cake was when we bred our own champion again both English and Irish titles Semitar Turnabout. We wish to thank the many owners and exhibitors of Semitars for campaigning their dogs over the years and thinking so highly of them.
We hope you enjoy this site and looking at the Semitars we have bred over the years.