07/21/2025
Today, for World Collie Day, we are featuring a Collie who needs your help to find her very best life.
Meet Jenga.
We think she is about a year old. She is a beautiful smooth Collie, a little on the small side at approximately 50-lbs. When we got a call asking if we could help to get her out of her current shelter environment and into a home through our rescue, of course we immediately agreed to do whatever we could for her.
Even the best of shelters can be extra-stressful for the sensitive Collie temperament, and this is only exacerbated when that Collie has had little opportunity to learn anything about living with loving humans who only want to give them good things.
We don’t know a lot about Jenga’s background but it is obvious that she has never had a chance to learn that human touch can be a good thing. She is nervous, surrounded by other nervous dogs, and still uncertain whether this latest change in her life will be a good thing or a bad thing. Despite that, during our meet-up her Collie nature shone through. She so desperately wants to know that she can trust people and that she can be friends with them, even while still needing some time to become brave enough to allow herself to be loved. Despite being nervous, we could see that she was curious, and gentle, and eager to break out of her shell once given the right opportunity to thrive with the right family.
Our urgent current need is for the right foster home to allow her to relax and adjust at her own pace. This home will have a fenced-in yard, and not be the main gathering point for the rest of the neighborhood. She needs a quiet place to decompress from the stress of first being uprooted from everything that she has known, however bad it was, and then finding herself in a large bustling shelter, however good the shelter is. She needs adults who have experience with the nervous Collie temperament, and she will need those adults to understand that time is on her side, there is no need to rush, and to take things at her pace.
While she has not been fully evaluated with other dogs, she has shown good curiosity about the other dogs, and we think that she might do well with a single, well-grounded, mature dog with a stable temperament who can help to introduce her to the good life that she will have from now on. Alternatively, she may do best as an only dog while she continues to adjust. All of our standard adoption/foster policies apply as always, and everything begins with submission of an application followed by a phone interview and an in-person home check.
If you think you might be the right person to help Jenga find her beautiful Collie temperament and happy every after, please reach out to us. Applications can be downloaded from our website https://collierescueofsepa.info/support-collie-rescue/ and submitted electronically via email. While we are willing to travel farther than usual for Jenga, please understand that we must be able to get to you for an in-person home check and you will need to be able to travel to our area to meet Jenga. If you have a question about your location, please ask first.
Jenga hasn’t had a happy World Collie Day yet. Can you help us use this one to give Jenga happy days for the rest of her life?
