SHANI

Hi - my name is Shani English and I am the youngest of the crew here - but I  am most definitely the "Big Dog" around this house.  I am a petite little gal (as my Mommy calls me) - I was born on June 21st, 2002 where I began my life in a breeder/puppy mill somewhere in Missouri.  Some crazy man was doing handywork for the people that owned the place and he messed up the job - rather than paying them - they gave him ME- and told him I was worth about  $600 . so he could sell me!  Well I won't tell you what my Mommy says about HIM - cause he locked me in the basement with his big dog (who ate all my food).  I wasn't allowed upstairs and was kept most of the time in a doggy crate.  The mean man had a sister in law who wanted me saved so she talked to my Mommy and they drove up to get me.  Man...I thought I won the doggy lottery!  I was 6 months old and only weighed 7-8 lbs when my Mommy first got me.  She took me home where I met my "big bro" - Homeless.  He is a Cairn mix that Mommy found on the side of the road almost 14 years ago - he was a little guy the first time she laid eyes on him - only 10 weeks old - but let's get back to talking about ME!!  I immediately set about putting him in his "place".  I impressed my Mommy by learning to "sit, beg, give the paw, dance, & spin around" all in about a span of 2 weeks!  To also display how intelligent I am - I "let" her bell-train me.  (dumbest thing she ever did - I drive her nuts with those bells!) I was her first experience ever with a Westie - and let's face it - once you have been around ME - you're hooked!  Now I am a happy, healthy, rambuctious little Westie Gal.

BOGEY

Hello, my name is Bogart English, but my Mommy calls me her Bogey-Bear.  I was born June 8, 1997 in a puppy mill somewhere in Missouri where I lived my entire life known as #156 Polar Bear.  I was kept in a concrete run, so I really didn't know about grass, the inside of houses, toys, or most of all this "potty" thing Mommy keeps talking about!  In late March 2004 some really nice ladies from Westie Rescue of Missouri came and rescued me cause the breeder thought I was getting too old to be a stud dog - (frankly I was getting tired of all that stuff anyway - I mean, it WAS fun at first...but year after year....girl after girl....I mean I was beginning to think they wanted me for my body and NOT my mind, ya know?)  Well let me tell you - I was scared to DEATH!  Man, did I give my Mommy a hard time!  I shook for almost a week!  But my Mommy would hold me, and talk to me, and love me...so I knew someday...it would be "OK".  She taught me how to go up and down stairs, how to play, and how to be happy and wag my tail!!!  I am learning to zoom, and run and just "be a dog".  Shani thinks SHE won the dog lottery?  Well if that's true, then I won the biggest reality show of them all -

 Dog-Stud-Survivor!!

We should explain that in August of 2003 our Mommy started a newspaper she calls Boomer Times.  Well...since she now had the "power" to help others like us - she went to the St. Charles Humane Society and offered to help them find homes for other unwanted kids like us...then she did the same for Westie Rescue.  Then she became a "volunteer" for WRM (Westie Rescue of Mo) - she "fostered" dogs on their way to what we call FOREVER HOMES and then she adopted me (Bogey!) THAT is how the English household went from a one Westie-home to a two!!

The 3 of us furkids - (Homeless, Shani & Bogey) live with our Mommy Rose and our Daddy George in Saint Charles, Missouri.

Miss Shani-Poo-Butt-English

Pictured at right - Shani

Yes...this is me the famous Shani English.  Am I a doll, or what???  My Daddy calls me "The Queen"...and ya' know what?

I am.

Wanna Email Me? Course You Do! Click on my name above!!

Yes...I am the first "official" Dog Reporter for Boomer Times.  Even have my own "section" - SHANI'S SHELTER.  Bogey works for ME...if anyone wants to know. 

If you really feel the need to - you can email my Brother Bogey too.  Just click on his name below.  Course I really can not see why anyone would WANT to do THAT?