I have loved the sheltie breed since I was a little girl and met my first one.  I was camping and spent the entire week we were there playing with our camping neighbor's dog and falling in love with the breed.  My parents never wanted a dog, so I vowed when I grew up I was going to get one and I did just that!  I got my first sheltie when I was 19 years old.  My brother and I jumped into it with both feet.  We bought our first show dog about a year later and began breeding and showing dogs in the midwest circuit for the next few years.  We have both gotten married and had children since then, and neither of us have shown our dogs for years, but we have both had at least one sheltie ever since.  My family and I moved to a 7 acre farm in Sheffield, IL in 2003 and with my kids now old enough to be a little independent, and help out, we set out to get back into shelties full time.  I have taken my time in getting my breeding stock as I have wanted to focus on some of the rarer colors and also making sure they were correct for body type, coat, head, expression, and most importantly to me, temperament. My dogs are registered with AKC.  I now have a nice group of dogs that are first and foremost part of our family, but also the foundation stock of Spectral Rhapsody.  It does my heart good finding great forever homes for "my babies" and to color the world with the music of love.

God Bless!
Dawn :)

As an added note, since I am asked this so often.

The name Spectral Rhapsody came about from the whole spectrum of colors to which I wanted to produce in shelties.  Rhapsody came from the registered names to which I give my dogs (with the exception of those already registered when I have gotten them).  All of my dogs registered names are song titles that have a color in them.  Such as Crystal = Crystal Blue Persuasion