We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the welfare of border collies

Serving the greater Sacramento valley and Sierra Nevada foothills

Featured Dogs

Madeline’s ‘Peanuts’ Puppies

November 29, 2025

Say hello to Madeline’s 4 puppies - 1 boy, 3 girls - Born Oct 6, 2025

**ADOPTION PENDING** Say hello to Fiona! She is a 1-year-old, red tri-colored, 40#, border collie mix with a lovely medium length coat. Fiona’s favorite thing is her person, followed by toys, treats, and other dogs. Fiona wants to be with her person and will follow her foster around the house and settle at her feet or nearby. She loves to play with toys and will flip them around and make her own party!

FRAZZLE AVAILABLE

November 17, 2025

Say hello to Frazzle, a 6-8-year-old sprite of a girlie, who at 32# is small enough to pack around. Don’t let Frazzie’s “middle age” fool you: she is quite energetic, prancing when she runs and loving no activities more than playing fetch and tug-of-war.

MISS MABEL – ADOPTION PENDING

November 17, 2025

**ADOPTION PENDING** Introducing “MISS MABEL.” Every NCBCRA adoption is special, but here is an opportunity to adopt a truly exceptional little girl. Miss Mabel is a beautiful blue and white smooth-coated border collie, weighing 28 pounds and standing about 17” at the shoulder. She is estimated to be about one year old. She is a well-balanced, muscular little girl with brown inquisitive and curious eyes. Miss Mabel is incredibility social and playful once she gets to know you in familiar surroundings. She is goofy, fun, extremely energetic, sweet, and very curious. She loves to explore the yard on her own, yet mostly stays within eyesight of her humans when outside.

GEORDIE AVAILABLE

October 29, 2025

Meet GEORDIE — your handsome adventure partner and social butterfly. Go ahead and swipe right — GEORDIE’s the total package. This approximately 10 month old, 40-pound Border Collie mix (possibly McNab x Border Collie) is smart, funny, slightly sensitive, and absolutely ready to make your life more fun. GEORDIE is the full Border Collie experience — clever, athletic, affectionate, and deeply loyal, all wrapped in a great sense of humor.

ONYX (Gem and Treasures Litter)

October 8, 2025

🐾 Hi, I’m Onyx! 🐾 Hi everyone! I’m Onyx, and I was born August 8, 2025. I absolutely love people and think snuggles are one of life’s greatest joys. I’ve got classic Border Collie energy, so I’m always ready for an adventure—walks, hikes, training games, and exploring new places.

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Available Dogs

These dogs are being fostered with our rescue organization. To see photos and read the bio for an available dog, click on the the dog’s photo. We provide a brief description of their personality, training and behavior to help match them with the best possible forever family.

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Volunteer

We are always looking to expand our foster network and sometimes need help transporting dogs. The common goal among our volunteers is the desire to help border collies find their forever homes and to match them with a home that fits their personality.

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Donate

Please consider becoming a Friend of Rescue by donating to help in the care of border collies in need. 100% of your donation is used for the veterinary care and feeding of our dogs. We are a 100% volunteer organization for which no one receives a salary.

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Adoption Application

Having an application on file is your first step to finding your forever friend.

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Success Stories

This is where we revel in the knowledge that one of our charges has made their way from the plight of rescue, through the trials of fostering and adoption, and are now happily situated in their forever home. Please share the joy with us so we may share with our community by emailing us at info@norcalbcrescue.org.

CINDY

October 5, 2021

Here is Cindy enjoying their cabin and taking a trip to the Presidio for walks with Joseph. She is living the good life!

Roisin’s Success Story

May 29, 2021

From Mom Tara: We adopted Roisin (formally Kimber) January 2020 and she has been a wonderful addition to our family. She loves hiking, taking a dip in a stream or lake, rolling in the snow, and running along on bike rides (on no traffic roads/trails). She is so affectionate!!

Rascal Success Story

May 19, 2021

Rascal, adopted September 13, 2020, is still gaining confidence out in the big world. In the beginning, he was so nervous to even leave my front porch. We just kept "practicing" slowly and he is doing so well. We now go on long walks by the river and he loves meeting new people. But his favorite pastime is "PLAY BALL!

Jasper adopted 3-1-20

September 6, 2020

It has been 6 months now since we adopted Jasper, just wanted to give you a quick update. He loves quarantine, gained weight pretty quickly and had 3 teeth extracted in June (Including a canine!) Jasper completed his first training class last month and goes to a barn hunt every week, even finds the rats faster than our mutt Bold who has been doing it for a year now. I am hoping to thru-hike the Tahoe Rim Trail next year with him, so we did some trial backpacking trips this summer. He is great company on the trail and loves al the time outdoors

Successful Adoption Story – Ellie

June 21, 2020

We started right way with Obedience training and he was a star so we continued to AKC Good Citizen Certification and then AKC Novice Tricks. Practicing was his favorite part of the day! He began training for therapy dog, going into Rehabilitation facilities and Hospice and then Covid-19 came. We were not able to complete the training but Ellie eagerly continued the training at home.