April 02, 2014

Gracie

I first saw Gracie on Facebook. A local rescue group had shared her intake photo from one of Houston’s shelters. Her photo was haunting; her stats even more. She weighed 31 lbs & was heartworm positive. How she got to the shelter is even more heartbreaking. Locals had called in...

April 02, 2014

Addie

I found her ad on Kijiji

March 26, 2014

Flower

I was contacted by a dog rescue networker regarding a little chi in her 11th hour in the Los Angeles Harbor Animal Shelter, located out of San Pedro, CA. She was on the euth list and next in line to be killed, what we label CODE RED. She was out...

March 25, 2014

GizmoSushi and Bane

Originally from Ohio, my husband and I relocated to Florida but knew we would rescue our first pitbull type dog from Ohio. GizmoSushi (darker brindle) was saved by my brother-in-law out of a very bad situation in Cleveland when she was about 7 weeks old. At first my brother-in-law Chuck...

March 24, 2014

Bailey & June

We found Bailey, a blue heeler/shar pei mix, at Lucky Dog Retreat Rescue in Indianapolis in November of 2012. We found June, a red heeler/lab mix, at the same rescue in January of this year.

March 24, 2014

Tank and Knight

My dog (tank) was found by a fellow volunteer of Noahs-Bark Animal Rescue and Rehab on craigslist. The ad stated that whomever came to get him first could have him. So the president of the rescue went to get him. She found him on a 3 foot chain in the...

March 21, 2014

McCoy

I didn’t really find McCoy, he more or less found me! I had fostered a pit bull through a rescue organization and after he had been adopted, I was asked if I would be interested in fostering another pit bull. Having heard he was only 1.5 years old and had...

March 20, 2014

Roscoe Red Dog/Arrow Blue Dog

Roscoe was a 8 or 9 months old puppy when he came to Red Dog Pet Resort and Spa in Cincinnati, Ohio. His owner dropped him and his father, ’Jack’ off for a week with no vaccinations and never came back for him. During his ’extended stay’ at the kennel,...

March 20, 2014

Marti Feldman

Stray Animal Adoption Program (SAAP) I have been a puppy foster (which also includes mothers with litters) for SAAP for several years . Marti came to my house after she found herself in a gas chamber - kill - shelter with her 8 puppies. PBC Co-Founder, Kristin, had seen a...

March 16, 2014

Crete

We brought Crete home on Christmas Eve of 2010. We adopted him when he was around 7 weeks old from the local animal shelter in our town. When we first brought him home he was covered in fleas, dirt, and CONCRETE! Someone had dipped our sweet baby in concrete and...

March 12, 2014

Jake

Sheltered Hearts Rescue, Hillsborough, NC (no-kill shelter)

March 12, 2014

Charlee

Charlee was found on the side of an interstate in Houston, Texas in a cardboard box with his 5 brothers and sisters. He was the runt of the bunch & had been beaten up pretty bad; he still has a ”knot” in his tail & a big scar on his...

March 12, 2014

Rose, Roxy, Edith and Mia

Roxy: puppy-mill rescue. disease infested when I first got her. Rose: rescued from prominent dog fighting area, took her in with a broken leg someone had kicked in or hit her with a car! She spent the first 4 months of her life dragging her leg behind her. Today, you...

March 11, 2014

Mali

A small resue shelter in Columbia, South Carolina.

March 11, 2014

Ralph and Hubert

Ralph and Hubert are best friends who love one another and everyone they meet. Ralph is our dog (my boyfriend and I) and Hubert is the dog of our good friends who work long days in politics, so Hubert has been coming over to our house to hang out with...