Belmark Shelties is a show kennel located in North West Ohio near Bellefontaine, 45 minutes North of Dayton and about an hour from Columbus. I hope you have time to stay and visit and see pictures of our home and kennel. We were established in 1986, striving for AKC standard correct shelties for all rings. We exhibit in AKC (American Kennel Club) and CKC (Canadian Kennel Club). We have been very successful through the years and have the honor of having All breed, Best In Show Winners, Reserve Best in Shows, Specialty Best In Show Winners and ASSA National winners with a couple Everything from Award of Merits, to Winners, Reserve and Best In Futurity and Runner up to Best in Futurity. We strive to produce dogs that adhere to our breed Standard, and are a joy to live with and train. Our lines are based on Banchory through Tall Timber and Macdega with a splash of Heritage Spirit. This blend stamps our shelties with solid, well moving bodies and stable temperaments as well as a classy, elegant presence, loads of coat and a sweet, loving expression. To see some of our informal sheltie photos check out our Gallery pages, Fun Photos, and Fan Letters to name a few.

 

 

We would like to invite you to surf our pages, and look around. We have lots going on as always, and have been honored with our breed's parent club award ASSA's Breeder Of Most Champions for 2012, tied in 2014, won 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023 and 2024 Please click link below We have bred 155 American Champions, bred and or owned 180 Champions, 73 Canadian Champions and have many others pointed and nearing their Championships. We have owned 8 Register Of Merit Producers with a few more nearing that title. Additionally we are the second highest AKC Champion producing kennel IN BREED HISTORY! (with the gap getting smaller all the time) Our dogs have excelled in many venues and gone on to break many records. Not only in conformation in the All Breed venue and Specialty alike but also in Obedience, rally, agility, and so forth. We pride ourselves in highly intelligent dogs for any venue, specially for loving.   “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”

We attend shows around the year, our dogs are well socialized, of the utmost quality, health tested and much loved. Please take the time to get to know us better; don't forget to check all the links at the bottom of each page. Thanks for visiting with us.

Bode and his descendants, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th generation. Above from left to right: Am/Can Ch Belmark Lo And Behold ROM ROMC, BISS GCH Am/Can Ch Belmak Give Me Chills, GCH Am/Can Ch Attridge Pearls Of Wisdom, Ch Belmark Atari, Ch Belmark Drum Roll Please ASSA RWD, Belmark Casana Am/Can pts

SHOW NEWS 2024

We finished the year with 16 bred by Champions.
4 Grand Champions
and two Canadian Champions
Along with quite a few Best in Specialty Show winners and some lovely National wins. Please check link below for all details.
We also won the ASSA Breeder Of Most Champions award for 2024!

1/17/25 Big congratulations to Martha Buck on finishing Ch Belmark Midnight Marauder. Raider is by BISS GCh Am/Can CH Belmark Give Me Chills ROM x Belmark Heirloom

4/26 We had a good first weekend back to shows for 2025 in Morgantown WV. Belmark The Thunder Rolls "Julius" was WD and BW on Thursday and Friday and Sunday and now has 13 points and both majors. Saturday we showed Belmark Magic Man "Mac" for the first time in the 6-9 moth class and he picked up a 4  pt major and was reserve on Sunday. Also first time in the ring, Belmark Time After Time "Kira" was RWB to Best of Breed.  The next day she was WB, BW and Best of Breed for 2 points. We are very pleased with these youngsters and looking forward to the rest of the year.

5/4 We went to West Windsor Township NJ. On Saturday Belmark The Thunder Rolls was WD under Nioma Coen and Belmark Time After Time, was WB and BW. The next day, Sunday "Julius" was WD BOS over 4 specials to finish it is now Ch Belmark The Thunder Rolls. Belmark Time After Time "Kira" was RWB.

5/11 In Myersville MD at the Blue Ridge Specialties on Saturday Belmark Magic Man "Mac" was WD both under Hector Hector and Meredith Hector for 5 point majors at each. Putting him on 14 points 3 majors. On Sunday he got a 5 point major reserve under Marjorie Tuff, she also gave reserve to our puppy girl; Heavens Beat The Band, who learned quickly how to be a little show girl. Ch Belmark The Thunder Rolls "Julius" at his first outing as a special picked up a 5 point major select with 17 specials in the ring. Thanks to judge Jeanette Powers Hudson. On our way home we heard from Mary Gamble that Ch Belmark Trouble By Design, finished which makes 155 Champions to date!

5/18 Great day at the Green Bay SSC shows in WI. Under Tom Coen we got WD on our puppy for his 3rd 5 point major to finish, he is  now Ch Belmark Magic Man "Mac". So proud of this boy, we will now start working on his two sisters, they will be out soon. We also went WB at the same show with Belmark Time After Time "Kira", and she went all the way to BISS! At the next show under Nioma Coen she repeated her wins, with another BISS she can now put MBISS in front of her name. The next day under judge Dr Bree Ardizzone-Sulewski, Kira was WB, BW and BOS to finish! so MBISS Ch Belmark Time After Time

5/25 This weekend we were in Fletcher NC. Since we finished half our entry before the show, we just only had a few dogs to take with us. Ch Belmark The Thunder Rolls "Julius" was bumped up for breed. And with a ring full of specials, at the Shetland Sheepdog Club of Spartanburg, was BOS under Al BInachi, select under Terry Jennings Bailey and BOS under Liz Bianchi, thanks to these judges. He now has 19 points and 4 majors.

6/1 We had a nice weekend; in Alaska with Sherry Sims, Belmark The Devil Wears Prada "Felicia" picked up 2 points, and then followed that up with back to back 5 point majors under breeder judges Lynette Stewart and Johanna Primeaux. She is very close to a finish now. Back at home we went to Maumee OH shows and Heaven's Tri'n To Be An Angel "Hops" was WB and BW for her first 2 points under Jo Ann Pavey.

6/8 Great weekend in Albion NY, at teh Western NY SSC. GCH Ch Belmark Beat Goes On "Vermont" was BOS at all 4 shows. Under Greg Speaks Belmark Apropos "Pippa" was WB and BW for a 4 point major. She then was Reserve under Ellen Worthington. Then Heaven's Tri'N To Be An Angel "Hops" our "Quentin" daughter was WB under Debra Tessman and WB and BW under Ellen Worthington, for 6 more points including a major.

 

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