Star is extremely intelligent, loves giving kisses, and wants to play with every person and every other dog in the house. She is housetrained and crate trained, and is almost completely finished with her chewing stage. To our mild dismay, she is one of those Shelties who loves the sound of her own voice!

We fell so completely in love with this little girl and have decided to adopt her ourselves. Among her many talents is the ability to go outside in the (fenced, of course!) yard and herd the other dogs back inside! When she's inside, she also lets us know when a dog who's outside is ready to come back in. And she has a trick all her own: When she's asked if she's a "tummy girl", she rolls over on her back to get her tummy rubbed. Sometimes, we'll turn around and there she is...feet in the air and wagging her tail, hoping for a tummy rub!

52) Denali

She was particularly upset because she'd been told that this gorgeous girl had been transported from Massachusetts to Utah and had already had several homes, and here she was doing the same thing to her again. She'd been told that Denali was 2 years old. She didn't know if she was house trained. After living with us for a couple of months, she was fully house trained. She exhibits patterns of fearfulness that we recognize as clearly the result of abusive treatment, but she's gotten a lot better. .

Denali was adopted by a wonderful couple who are tenderly working with her fearfulness and shyness, slowly overcoming her problems. She's in a permanent, fantastic home, living the life she deserves to have after all of her being shuffled around.

51) Princess came to us on Christmas eve, 2004. We got a call from a gentleman who had recently contacted us looking for a Sheltie. He and his family had adopted a 7 year-old Sheltie named Princess from a local shelter, where she'd languished for about a month. Her new family had enjoyed her and felt she was a wonderful dog. But within 24 hours, she had snapped a few times and they decided they didn't want to take any chances with their children…including an infant they were about to adopt. The call was to ask us if they could turn Princess over to us.

We quickly realized that the most likely reason for Princess' snapping was pain. What she really needed was some veterinary care to determine the cause of her pain and a solution. It turned out to be almost as simple as that. Princess does need a routine surgery to help the arthritis in one hip. In the meantime, a common canine anti-inflammatory keeps her comfortable enough that she shows no signs of snapping at all. Princess has huge amounts of personality and showed us right from the start that she knows how to live in and run a household very nicely, thank you very much.

Happily, we've found a loving household that needs a four-legged coordinator to run things! Better yet, they live in a 1-story house, saving Princess the pain she experiences climbing and descending stairs.

50)

Pumpkin has been adopted into an absolutely perfect situation. His new mommy is an older woman who is retired and thus at home most of the time...and who lives in a 1-level house (so Pumpkin doesn't have to deal with going up and down stairs, which would be hard on his joints). He is a very lucky and happy Sheltie!

49)

While Kelsi was with us, we puppy-sat for a previous rescue, Champ. When Champ's mommy came to pick him up after her trip, she met...and immediately fell in love with...Kelsi. It didn't take her long to decide that Champ was going to have a new Sheltie companion. Now there are two very happy Shelties in that home!