Shelbronze Shetland Sheepdogs was first registered in 1978 by my mum, Pamela Powell, but as long as I can remember we always had a sheltie.

As a little girl we rescued a poor little sheltie from the streets who obviously had had a litter of pups. She was so skinny. We took her in and called her Lassie (of all names ha!). She was a beautiful sable girl and looked so much different once she was fed properly and living in a loving home. She lived quite a long life but we never really knew exactly how old she was.

When Lassie passed away mum then purchased her first registered sheltie, a tricolour male from Shelbrae kennels in NSW.

Shelbrae Kintyre CD CDX never became the show dog we hoped for so mum gave him to me and Kinty and I exceeded in the obedience ring winning several Novice and Open classes and two High Score in Trials together.

Mum then brought in a beautiful golden sable bitch, Ardvasar Janine (Nina) who was bred by the late Scotty & Helen Clinton of Ardvasar Kennels.

Nina was a grand daughter of the top producing UK sire, Eng & Aust Ch. Riverhill Rampion.

Mum bred along these lines for several years with Nina being the foundation of our shelties. Nina can be found behind most of our old sable lines today.

At this stage I was having a whole lot of fun being successful in junior handlers. Winning many huge classes, which in the 80’s some handlers classes could be 50 girls deep!

I qualified for the PAL finals twice in Victoria and was short listed both times.

Later on I started to have a lot more to do with the dogs myself and showing some of mum’s beautifully bred dogs to many big wins at all breed and specialty level.

Our most famous have been our 2 magnificent boys Ch. Shelbronze High Spirits (Ryan) and BIS Ch. Shelbronze Jack Ohearts (Jack).

Mum always bred for correct breed type and she was a stickler for soundness. She hates bad moving dogs and her pet hate is a short upper arm or straight shoulder.

So with me ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’, as they say.

When I moved out of home mum gave me two sheltie’s in Ch. Shelbronze Heze My Guy (litter brother to S. High Spirits) and BIS Ch. Shelbronze Jack Ohearts.  Two boys who are now waiting for me at ‘The Rainbow Bridge’ but will always be very dear to my heart.

I actually bred my first litter in 1996 and from that litter I bred my first champion,

Ch. Shelbronze Kwitya Bitchn (Zoe).

From that litter on I haven’t looked back and have since bred 7 homebred champions and titled 4 bred by others with several others close to their titles.

In the mid 90’s I became interested in the judging side of dogs so applied for my aspiring judges license for Group 5 in 1997, by 1999 I had passed my exams and became a championship judge for the working group.

Since then I have gained my championship licenses for groups 1 and 7.

I have had some super judging appointments over the years especially in shelties. I have judged them in Germany, Finland, New Zealand and all over Australia.

My dogs and my family live near Ballarat on 15 acres with beautiful scenery from our front verandah.

I look forward to breeding many more healthy, happy and top quality shelties in the near future.

Please enjoy viewing my dogs through this site and I am always happy to discuss shelties to anyone who is interested in this beautiful breed.