We have had a toy poodle whose mother wouldn't nurse her and was going to die (we had to hand-feed her), one toy poodle with epilepsy, one (mostly) border collie who was abandoned in our neighborhood, (all of whom lived long lives but have now passed, and we now are being ruled by a (mostly) Gordon Setter who again was abandoned in our neighborhood. Sweet as she can be, doesn't bark at all, but sheds like the dickens. I have to keep a sticky roller in every room and brush her every day. Black hair everywhere. But we love her dearly.