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The Border Collie Health Foundation, Inc. - Our Board of DirectorsAngela Roesch
By the time she was nine years old, Angie convinced her parents to let her get her first purebred dog, a collie named Wendi. Wendi introduced Angie to competitive dog events, and together they competed in agility and obedience. Another collie was added to the household soon after. Phoenix was a tri-color smooth collie that developed Angie's passion for flyball. The first border collie entered Angie's life in 2000. While working at a vet clinic, she met a man who purchased a border collie puppy to keep him company while working as an over-the-road truck driver. Needless to say, it wasn't working out well. Angie and her friend Denise agreed to take the dog from the truck driver. Mija started Angie's passion for border collies. Several more border collies joined Angie's household, and then she became engaged to another border collie person. The end result was a house full of border collies! Currently, Angie and her fiance, Chris, are owned by seven border collies. Unfortunately, some of Angie's dogs have had serious health problems. Angie became interested in joining the Border Collie Health Foundation after losing her border collie, Epi, to juvenile renal disease at 1 1/2 years of age. After this devastating loss, border collie health and open sharing of information among the border collie community became one of Angie's top priorities. As a result, Angie urges all border collie breeders and owners to educate themselves about border collie health and to take an active role in the open discussion of health problems in the breed. While going to school, Angie worked as a veterinary technician at a multi-doctor practice in the suburbs of Saint Louis. In 2006, she graduated from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis with a BS in Biochemistry and Biotechnology. She is currently working as a biochemist for a protein purification group in Saint Louis during the week. On the weekends that she is not at some dog event, she still works the occasional Saturday at the veterinary hospital. She hopes her background in veterinary medicine and scientific education will benefit the Border Collie Health Foundation.
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Angie's interest in dogs began at a young age. Before she even knew dog agility competitions existed, she had her terrier mix running courses in the backyard. Without agility equipment, seven-year-old Angie used her imagination. Street hockey sticks and lawn chairs became jumps. Some cinder blocks and scrap wood became a teeter. A row of lawn chairs doubled as a crawl tunnel.