Welcome to the
Western Australian Shepherd Rescue 
formerly Wyoming Aussie Rescue

Help WASR while shopping at Amazon!

SMILE with AMAZON! If you are an Amazon shopper, you can shop and donate to WASR at the same time! Just go to Smile.Amazon.com and select Western Australian Shepherd Rescue as your charity. Click here to find out more.


Do you have cute dog bed photos?

We are applying to receive a dog bed grand from Animal Rescue Aid. To help us be selected, please send us your favorite dog bed photos!
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true,
to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
~Author Unknown

An Extraordinary Dog Hero
​Erley (formerly Luke)

Available Dogs

Meet Hershey and Shadow!
Two of our dogs in Wyoming

Meet Sierra! 
One our dogs in Washington

Meet Pepper! 
One our dogs in waiting to come west

The goal of Western Australian Shepherd is to help place Australian Shepherds, Border Collies, Australian Cattle Dogs and other herding breeds in loving, permanent homes or service careers. Western Australian Shepherd Rescue does not place dogs for any breeding purposes what so ever. Western Australian Shepherd Rescue will not place dogs for any kind of guard duty. Dogs are placed in carefully screened homes through the use of specific rules and procedures.  We are a small group of dedicated volunteers that put our hearts, souls and spare time into finding forever homes for Australian Shepherds, Border Collies, Australian Cattle Dogs and other herding breeds. Some of us compete in dog sports like agility, obedience, rally, conformation and herding with our Aussies. While others of us simply love the breed and enjoy helping them. We all feel a responsibility to help these dogs. We are completely foster based, meaning all of our dogs stay in one of our volunteer's home until a forever home is found. Western Aussie Rescue fosters and places dogs in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Utah, North and South Dakota, New Mexico as well as Colorado. We have relationships with many shelters, and rescue dogs from the Southeast, Midwest, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico along with all the states where we have volunteers.