June 02, 2015

Jake the Dog

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: There has been a lot of adjustment with Jake being an adult who wasn't trained well, but he has definitely taught us patience and perseverance, and we are so glad he is a part of our family. Tell Us...

June 02, 2015

Captain

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: I have another dog who is my love. But Captain helped fill a sadness of losing my old girl, and helped me get through some rough times I had been having. He makes me laugh, both dogs do, but to...

May 29, 2015

Sugar Booger aka Shuggie

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: Oh where to start!!!!! We had never owned a "Pit Bull" and yes we were those humans who had been brainwashed by the media......Shuggie changed all that for us and our family:) Tell Us About the Moment When You...

May 28, 2015

Mulder

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: Mulder has forever changed our life, she never ceases to make us all smile everyday, and warm are hearts with her snuggles. She will run and jump when anybody lays down, as she LOVES to snuggle with her humans. ...

May 28, 2015

Lila

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: Because of Lila, I start and end every day with a smile and love. Now, after five and a half years together, she continues to amaze me with breakthroughs and with her resilience. I know what it is to love...

May 11, 2015

Princess Pixie

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: I hate to admit, but I had never thought much about bully/pit breeds and we had actually been looking for another breed with no luck. I expanded my search one day and found Pixie's picture, she was 2 hours from...

May 05, 2015

Juno

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: Juno has been my constant companion for 4 years now. It took awhile for us to really love one another and become family, due to my emotional issues. She has been with me through an abusive relationship and several moves....

May 05, 2015

Jasmine

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: Jasmine makes me want to advocate for shelter dogs, she is a wonderful pup and like many others was turned away from human kindness and placed in a high kill shelter. No dog deserves that fate, I hope to be...

May 05, 2015

Annie "The Big Surprise... Buy one, get 4 free!"

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: The shelter didn't have an available appointment for another month to get her spayed and all of my dogs are fixed, so I brought her home with an appointment set for her spay surgery weeks later. After she had been...

April 29, 2015

Mabry

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: Mabry is constantly breaking stereotypes. She loves to play with our two other dogs, both Dachshunds, and wants nothing more to meet and play with anyone and everyone she comes across. She truly is my baby. Our hopes for her...

April 28, 2015

Franklin

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: Hannah: Franklin has made me a more patient person. He is an extremely patient dog, both with me as his owner and the other doggies that sometimes run him over when playing. He never loses his cool ever! Patrick: Franklin...

April 28, 2015

Mya: The story of how she saved my life

How Has Your Hero Changed Your Life?: It's taken me a year to write this story. It's hard. Mya came to me at a very bad time in my life. I had lost one of my dogs and was going through a separation. I wasn't looking for...

April 24, 2015

Yoshi

Yoshi has given me the ability to fulfill a dream of helping not only homeless pets but people in need. There is no greater feeling ! He is proof that shelter dogs make the best pets!!!!

April 22, 2015

Wilson (IG: @Wilsonthesleepy)

We had been talking about getting a dog and were looking online one day at all the local shelters in the area. That’s when we saw him posted online at the Atlanta Humane Society. We knew we had to go and meet him.

April 15, 2015

Fidget Midget (Midge)

I found her in our local pound, Mount pleasant Kennels in Hampole near Doncaster west Yorkshire (UK).

April 15, 2015

Tank and Hemi

I went to the shelter after class one day ”just to look” fell in love with tank and took him home shortly after, snatched him off death row, a couple years later (this winter) a friend of mine took in a foster liter after the mother had passed away giving...