We admit that we thought Boodie might be in care with us for awhile. Being a mature aged lady of 11 years, we hoped that a special person would see past her age and recognise what an absolute gem she is. We also wondered, since we have an array of stunning younger purebred dogs available, whether anyone would look at a little old lady whose Malamute content can only be seen if you tilt your head and squint your eyes! We were so thrilled to be proven wrong. Before we could

It's been a long road for Zazu. He came to us with double luxating patellas, meaning that both his hind legs required surgery and a lengthy recovery time after each. Luckily he had dedicated foster Mum, Kelly is his corner. The SHAMROQ team madly fundraised with raffles, auctions and the entire proceeds of our 2017 Mally Muster event to come up with the money needed for these specialist surgeries. In all honesty, we could have bought ourselves a very decent secondhand car

So you've noticed that a fair few of our adoptions are happening when foster carers can't bear to part with the dog they're looking after (commonly referred to as foster-failure, but we don't see it as failure in any sense of the word!)... But ask yourself honestly, if this was the sight that you woke up to every morning, could you stop yourself from falling head over heels? And not to mention the fact that this little cutie got along with your cats and had made best buddies

Senior Keeshond x fellow, Bundy Bear was surrendered to a pound for his own safety, due to a domestic violence situatuon. We were able to help him because Nicole stepped up and offered him a foster home. The fairytale was complete when he and Nicole made a mutual decision that it was going to become a permanent arrangement. So Bundy Bear is living his best life as part of a household with a couple of small dogs, cats, chooks and ducks AND he seems to be ageing backwards lik