Collie Rescue of SEPA

Collie Rescue of SEPA Our mission is to provide for the rescue and care of pure bred Collies. We are located in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Jus’ chillin’ and lookin’ for squirrels.
10/21/2025

Jus’ chillin’ and lookin’ for squirrels.

10/11/2025

The event at Valley Forge on the 12th has been cancelled due to weather. If you registered, please check your email.

10/09/2025

Sammie, rescued 2 1/2 years ago through Collie Rescye of SEPA, is showing JJ the rope-s in his new foster home.

10/09/2025

The rain forecast for Sunday is from a storm that hasn’t even formed yet. We will monitor conditions and decide by 3PM Saturday if we need to cancel for Sunday. If you registered you will get an email and we will post here.

10/09/2025

Ever seem like we can’t catch a break?
Between yesterday and today, RAIN is now in the forecast for Sunday 😭
We are carefully reviewing the forecast and will update on the event as soon as we decide.

This post is getting a lot of attention which is wonderful! Now please see the updated post about the weather forecast w...
10/08/2025

This post is getting a lot of attention which is wonderful! Now please see the updated post about the weather forecast which has completely changed since yesterday. 😭 We will advise soon on the status of the planned event.

The collies were discussing among themselves what should happen to the event at Valley Forge on the 12th if the government doesn’t open back up. So we thought we should let you know what they decided.
It’s still on! Read on!
While the government is closed, there is no access to facilities in the park, and there will be no park ranger to administer the Bark Ranger oaths. Our permit has not yet been finalized and cannot be until they go back to work.
However, the park grounds are still available.
Registrations are currently just short of the group limit where we would be required to have a permit, and we don’t expect that to change in the next 4 days. (If we reach the unpermitted limit, and the government hasn’t opened back up, we will close registrations so as not to exceed the limit.)
So we plan to have the event as planned on the 12th and will defer the permit until some time in the spring when hopefully even more people will be able to join us.
We do not know for sure whether we can still use the picnic tables inside the pavilion, but we’ve already told everyone to bring their own chair for comfort, so that shouldn’t make any real difference one way or the other.
The weather should be good but on the cool side. So, if you have registered, please dress accordingly.
We hope to have a nice gathering of collies and people, with refreshments appropriate for brunch, including a group walk as planned. The walk is of course optional. All park rules as far as keeping dogs on leash (6-ft maximum, no retractable) at all times and cleaning up after your dog, and where dogs are and are not allowed still apply.
If the government opens back up on time, then we will also be able to complete the Bark Ranger as planned.
If you have already registered, we are looking forward to seeing you on the 12th as planned.

We had a great time with all of the collies and other pups at the Paws 4 Life event this morning.
10/04/2025

We had a great time with all of the collies and other pups at the Paws 4 Life event this morning.

It’s almost here again! Every year we are pleased to be able to support the Cancer Support Community of Greater Philadel...
10/01/2025

It’s almost here again! Every year we are pleased to be able to support the Cancer Support Community of Greater Philadelphia/Gilda’s Club at the Paws 4 Life Dog Walk.
Come out on Saturday October 4th and support them and your favorite Collie Rescue.
Registration for the walk starts at 8:45AM at the Hallowell Pavilion #1, Warminster Community Park. The walk begins at 9:30AM and ends at Gilda’s Clubhouse, Kirk Rd., Warminster.
Festivities continue there through 11:30AM including raffles, vendors, silent auction, food, DJ, and Dog Costume Contest with celebrity judges.
Come join us!

PLEASE NOTE: The date for our event at Valley Forge has been updated to October 12th to accommodate another event at the...
09/24/2025

PLEASE NOTE: The date for our event at Valley Forge has been updated to October 12th to accommodate another event at the park on the 11th. Find the details in the event pinned to the top of our page.
And we have no idea why the location changes every time we update anything else 🤪 We assume that our local supporters all know where Valley Forge Park is: King of Prussia, PA - not Utah, NC, NJ, Venus, Mars, or any other remote location. 🤣 We’ll try to keep that corrected for everyone’s sake so that no Search-n-Rescue Collies will be needed to find your way there. LOL

09/18/2025

4 October 2025: Paws 4 Life event at Gildas’s Club in Warminster.
11 October 2025: Information coming soon! - Updated to 12 October

JJ is one adorable, 8- month old, bundle of cute smooth collie energy who doesn’t want to be forgotten in the back-to-sc...
09/01/2025

JJ is one adorable, 8- month old, bundle of cute smooth collie energy who doesn’t want to be forgotten in the back-to-school rush. He’s been busy learning new things during everyone’s summer vacation and is ready for his forever home! He’s house-broken, leash trained, and loves to play. He would do well with an equally matched playmate, or as an only dog. He’s growing up quickly, so if you’ve been waiting for that young puppy, don’t wait much longer to ask about JJ!

We said good bye to Douglas this week.It was only May when we met him, after first seeing a photo of him as a thin, frig...
08/30/2025

We said good bye to Douglas this week.
It was only May when we met him, after first seeing a photo of him as a thin, frightened dog cowering in the back of his kennel in an overcrowded shelter. He came to us after an adopter decided he was too strong on-leash and reached out to us rather than returning him to a shelter. His initial body score was a mere 3 out of 9. After 24-hours with us, he landed in “doggie ICU” with hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, bloody urine, vomiting, and general malaise. Ultimately he also tested positive for bordetella. While there, an abdominal ultrasound showed a mass in his bladder, and he was also tested for bladder cancer. Once stable, he went to a second foster home where he could be kept in quarantine until we were sure he would not be contagious to other dogs. This meant that in a period of 3 weeks he had been in 4 homes and 1 shelter.
Douglas survived it all while maintaining a sweet disposition.
For a short time, when a specific blood test came back negative, we had hope that he did not have cancer and could live a long happy life in a wonderful forever home, but that hope was short-lived, when we learned that his tumor had more than doubled in size in only two months.
Douglas was unphased by this news and continued to improve in every other way. He learned to walk nicely on-leash, and learned that his big-boy bark and exuberant on-leash greeting could be a little off-putting to people and dogs who didn’t actually know him. So he practiced hard to pretend to be a smaller dog so that people and dogs would be his friends. He also shed his fear and became a confident dog, happy to meet new friends, and always willing to play games with his two brothers. He gained 20-lbs, and grew a beautiful coat.
He did find his special, forever home right with his second foster and two older collie brothers who were happy to welcome him into their lives and show him the ropes, and the balls, and the tug toys, and beds, and couches, and squeaky stuffed animals, and even the grunting stuffed animals. He got to go to Gettysburg with his new family and experience Canine Camp Getaway of NY, and he managed to fit a lifetime of memories into the short time that he had simply by living each day for itself and to the fullest.
Even though we learned a few weeks ago that his kidney values indicated severe kidney failure, Douglas chose to ignore those results and live his life one day at a time to make each day special. It was only in his last few days that he started to show that he wasn’t feeling well and was not likely to rebound. The cancer was relentless and would finally have its way, and we knew it was time and could not let this special boy who had already been through so much suffer. So, wrapped in the loving arms of his mom, he was relieved of this final injustice.
This is never easy, and never seems fair, especially when the dog is young like Douglas, but it is for dogs like Douglas that we do what we do. We don’t know what he experienced before coming to us, but all appearances were that he did not live a wonderful life. We were able to turn that around and treat him like a king, even if it was only for a short time. We know that he knew the difference. We saw that whenever we looked into his eyes and saw apprehension replaced with confidence, and fear replaced with love.
We loved you too Douglas. We will miss you.

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PO Box 493
Ambler, PA
19002

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