Success stories of some of the fortunate animals that we were able to rescue.

Adopted 2009 - Maggies puppy Bigun is happily traveling the country in an RV for the next 2 years.  See the family adventure click here

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Adopted 12-24-2009 Honey - Female - 3 or 4 years old

Adopted 10-2009  Daisy - Female - 9 months old - Bully Breed Mix

Daisy is up-to-date with routine shots, house trained and spayed/neutered.

Adopted 9-2009  - Mocha - Female - Young

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Mocha's listing on Dogster.com

We pulled Mocha from the shelter because she had given up on life and decided to die.  She was at the back of the kennel all hunched over with her back to us, nothing but bones.  She’d refused to eat or drink and wouldn’t even look when you made a sound.  We’re not sure what happened to Mocha before some heartless human dumped her, but it couldn’t have been good.  I wasn’t sure Mocha would even make it to her vet appointment, but we decided if she was going to die it would be in our arms and she would feel love before passing over.   

Mocha sure has surprised us.  She rallied after her vet appointment today.  She’s a sick little girl but quickly showing improvement.  She finished her breakfast and her lunch and has been drinking water.  She’s on her antibiotics for the next week and will be on vitamins for a while.  She has special food for the next couple weeks as well.  Mocha needs to put on some weight and get healthier before she’s available for adoption, but the way she’s going now that shouldn’t take too long.  Her will to survive is back with a vengeance and she’s a fighter once again. 

 She's running like a mad woman outside and playing with everyone else so well, but by far her favorite thing to do is just snuggle.  She's totally housebroken and will use a potty pad if left inside for longer than a few hours.  She is still a very young puppy after all.  We're guessing about 14 to 16 weeks old.
 

Adopted 9-2009

Cocker Spaniel/Beagle/Pekinese Pups

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Adopted 9-1-2009  Trudy - Female - Doxie Mix - Young

Trudy is a young adult female JRT doxie mix. She loves to snuggle and is a pretty mellow girl most of the time.

Adopted 9-2-2009

Clyde - Male - Beagle Mix

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Clyde's Listing on Dogster.com

We think Clyde is a beagle Pekinese mix.  He’s got the sweetest little face I’ve ever seen on a dog with the most beautiful little Peke type coat.  He’s very affectionate and playful and incredibly athletic.  Don’t even think of putting this boy in a yard with a fence under 4 feet high.  Even though he’s quite small he can clear fences higher than most dogs larger than him.  He loves to run and play and when the day is done all he can think of is snuggling in bed with his family.  And he’s housebroken too!! 

Adopted 8-27-2009  Gracie - Female - Sheltie mix - Young adult

Gracie is sheltie mix, probably has some corgi in her. She's got fur like a bunny-so soft. Young adult 4 to years old.

Adopted8-27-2009   Eddie - Male - Mini doxie - 6 months old

Eddie is a mini doxie boy, probably about 6 months old.Small and outgoing,loves to play with other dogs.

Adopted 8-25-2009

Yellow Lab Puppies - Males - 10 weeks old

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Adopted - 07-2009 - Simba - Male - Chow

Simba is a show stopping adult male chow chow with an amazing red coat and blond highlights that I’d pay big bucks to have!  He’s got the solid blue tongue as well.  He is a total lover and just adores walks.  He loves to wrestle and play with other dogs, and has bonded well with Cooper, the lab mix puppy we have for adoption.  He's a joy to have in the house; very easy going and laid back.

Adopted 07-2009 - Simon - 7 yr old - Male - Cocker Spaniel

Simon is a 7 yr old black male cocker spaniel with grey around his muzzle.  Simon was purchased as a 6 week old puppy and he and his brother were tied to a tree and left.  They got food and water, but never any love or attention, something they both craved.  During the time Simon was tied to the tree he tore both of his rear ACLs.  His former owner never bothered to have them repaired and they healed improperly.  He also had luxating patellas (slipping knee caps) which also were not repaired and have left him with arthritis under his back knees.  He’s got cataracts in both eyes and early onset glaucoma in one eye.  Because of this he’s permanently blind and needs annual visits to a canine opthamologist.  


Adopted  5-16-2009 - Gwen - Female - 5 months old - Dogo Argentino Mix

Congratulations to Jacqueline Miller of Hillsboro, NJ on the adoption of Gwen.  Gwen will join her new mom and her new big brother, Lazlo the Viszla, on May 16, 2009.  She couldn't have gotten a more wonderful, loving, perfect home for her!

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to adopt a very rare breed in the US.  Gwen is a Dogo Argentino mix puppy that is 5 months old.  She’s wonderful with other dogs and just loves to play.  Unfortunately for poor Gweny, she has absolutely no clue how big and strong she is, even at her young age.  She’s larger and much stronger than our full grown pit bull.  We also don’t know what in the world she’s mixed with, but with ears like that we are guessing maybe Pharoh Hound, but to find a mix of 2 very rare breed dogs in a rural KY shelter where we pulled her from is just so unlikely!!    

Please read up on Dogos before applying to adopt Gwen.  She is going to be a phenomenal dog for the right family, but she will need constant training and a strong owner to handle her all of her life.  Dogos are Argentinian Mastiffs and can grow to be incredibly large, powerful dogs.  Gwen is off to a great start being an phenomenal pet and excellent protector of her family and we want to make sure that family is right for her.  Also, Gwen’s contract will state that under no circumstances is she to have any cosmetic surgery, by anyone including a veterinarian, to any part of her body, including her ears or tail.  We want Gwen’s family to love her for who she is, not who they can turn her into.

**Adopted** Jasmine - Female - 7 weeks old - German Shepard Mix

Jasmine is just the sweetest little German Shepherd mix puppy girl.  Only 7 weeks old and she’d been dumped in the shelter with the rest of her litter.  Could you imagine turning your back on this tiny little face?  Jasmine isn’t housebroken yet, but she’s a smart girl and will learn fast.  She loves to play and isn’t the least bit intimidated by other dogs, even those that are much bigger than her.   

Jasmine came home with kennel cough, very common in dogs in shelters, so she’s on antibiotics for a week.  Once she’s through that and has been cleared by the vet – we’re guessing in the first week of April – she’ll be available for adoption.  Our vet doesn’t feel comfortable spaying her until she’s at least 14 weeks old, so Jasmine will have a special adoption contract requiring you to bring her back to our vet to be spayed and have proof of that by the time she’s 5 months old.  All costs related to the spay will be covered by HART as part of her adoption fee.   

 * Adopted* Wylie - Male -Terrier/Chihuahua Mix

We honestly don't even have a clue what Wylie is truly mixed with; we've never seen a dog like him in our life! Due to the temperament and look we're just guessing at a terrier and chihuahua mix. However, he is the sweetest little guy and already housebroken. He's very well behaved with other dogs and cats and just loves every person he sees. Wiley weighs around 10 pounds and is a young adult male. We think he may be in the 18 to 24 month range.

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Adopted March 10, 2009 Oreo has a new family!!  Congratulations to Eric and Kate of Nashville, TN on their new addition

 Oreo -Border Collie Mix - Female - Born  first week of December, 2008.

Oreo was tagged to be euthanized the day we pulled her from a high kill shelter. She was 2 months old. Now she has a new family to love and care for her.

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Adopted - Zoe - female - 10 weeks old - german shepard

Zoe - Zoe was an owner surrender to a TN shelter.  She was due to be euthanized at only 10 weeks old.  She was the most beautiful GSD puppy I’ve ever seen and all she wanted to do was snuggle, snuggle, snuggle!!  

Zoe was very lucky that a wonderful woman named Susan offered to pay for her adoption fee if someone would just give her a home or keep her in theirs until a home was found.  When I saw sweet little Zoe’s face there was no hesitation; I immediately told them to spring her from puppy prison and she could stay with us as long as it took.  

I have a good friend in northern VA that has had a tremendous amount of luck finding homes for dogs and puppies so I contacted her about Zoe.  Michelle, being in the incredible animal lover and giving person she is, agreed that I could send Zoe along with the rest of the GA group and she’d find her a home.

From the minute Zoe arrived at my house until she made it to Michelle’s office, every single person that met Zoe fell madly in love with her.  She soon proved that although she was a sweet little snuggle bug, she was no pushove r, as she immediately began rough housing with a mastiff puppy that was 4 times her size!  

Michelle held off on finding a home for Zoe until just that right couple came along.  And of course they did!  Although Zoe will be a challenge to keep in line with her no fear personality, she is also going to be a wonderful family pet.  

The GA group-

 When I got the call about Zoe and called my friend Michelle to see if she might know of anyone that was looking for a puppy like her, she told me about a group of puppies being pulled from a gassing shelter in Georgia.  Even the "best" gas boxes can cause conscious animals the horror of watching others suffer from convulsions and muscular spasms as they slowly die. Old, young, and sick animals are particularly susceptible to gas-related trauma and will thus die slow and highly stressful deaths.  So when Michelle said she’d agree to pull some puppies from them and transport them to her, but needed some help getting them up there I jumped right on the transport band wagon. 

In the group was Indy, an all black female lab mix.  Her sister Libby, a fawn colored lab mix with a black mask.  An older black male pit / lab mix named Dennis the Menace, and although he’s a wonderful boy now after all the training Michelle has done, he certainly lived up to his name.  And then there was little Bosco, only 8 weeks old.

Shortly after the pups arrived in VA little Bosco became ill.  He was hospitalized and placed in puppy ICU where the found out he had a genetic disorder that caused his organs to shut down.  He was treated and all was done, but little Bosco was just too sick and too little, and less than a week after he arrived the decision was made to let him go and end his suffering.  Michelle took time out of her day to be there with him and hold him as he slowly slipped away from this world, into the next where he can run and play and be a healthy happy puppy.

Shortly after Bosco slipped away, both of the girls that came in with him were adopted into wonderful homes.  Dennis’ training is continuing and he may soon have himself a home as well.  

Kabot - Kabota was listed on a local sales network site as a FTGH (free to good home) dog.  Many of these dogs these days are snapped up by people that run dog fights.  They use them as ‘bait dogs’ where their jaws are broken so they can’t fight back and their hips are broken so they can’t get away.  They are thrown in a pen with a dog that has been trained to fight to kill and torn alive.  

Kabota was only about 12 weeks old.  He looked to be a cross between a Great Pyrenees and a Saint Bernard, just a total puff ball.  The lady that had him was pregnant and her husband was being deployed.  She had another baby at home and a puppy on top of it was just too much for her.  She’d said that if he wasn’t adopted by Friday she’d drop him at the pound.  

I called Friday afternoon to see if he’d been adopted yet, and he hadn’t.  I told her I’d pick him up and take him in and find him a home.  I called Michelle, my friend in VA to see if she could help, and again as always, she said yes.  We set up a transport and left home at 4 in the morning, heading out to meet the next person on our trip, Mary.  Mary would take him a few hours north of her to meet the next person who would go a few hours north, etc until Kabota finally met up with Michelle.  

Just outside of Knoxville I got a call from Mary.  She and her husband had fallen in love with Kabota from his pictures and they wanted to adopt him themselves!  Mary has done quite a few tran sports with us and we were good friend, having met on the internet through our love of horses.  I just knew that Mary’s family would be ideal for Kabota and saying yes was the easiest decision I could have ever made!

Penny / Ireland - One night on the way home from an emergency midnight trip to the vet with a friend’s dog, I turned the corner just to have the cutest little ball of fur run right in front of our van.  I locked up the brakes and pulled over.  A little beige and white fluff ball came right to me.  He didn’t have a tag and was on a main highway, so I put him in the van to take him home, figuring I’d start putting up flyers in the morning.  About the time I turned around I heard crying from the side of the road.  On the hill across the road was another little back puppy watching me.  It took me a few minutes but I eventually coaxed her over.  We placed signs all over the place and after a month decided they must have been strays and needed homes.  

About a month later we were getting ready for bed and noticed that Freddy, the fluffy male was missing.  We searched everywhere to find him in the road.  He’d found some way out of the house and been hit by a car.  The loss of Freddy was devastating to us, as we’d really become close to him.  

Nonetheless, Penny needed a home and we continued to look around.  Once again, Michelle stepped in and we set up her transport.  Penny went to20an interview with the Maryland State Police in the hopes we could get her adopted out as a working dog.  She’d shown great abilities in tracking and I was pretty excited that I might be able to adopt out my very first working K9!

Unfortunately Penny would’ve eaten a turd off the back of a tortoise so she wasn’t qualified to be a working dog.  It turned out to be a wonderful thing for her though, as an incredible couple came along that were interested in her.  After a couple visits they adopted her and renamed her Ireland.  She’s been a much loved part of their family ever since and goes every place they do!

Sasquatch - While getting ready for work one day a neighbor called and asked if we could take in another dog.  Someone had dropped off a Great Pyrenees in their yard and they had dog-aggressive pets so they couldn’t keep him.  I tried to locate a GP rescue group to take him as we had our hands full, but when I couldn’t find one at the moment and the neighbors were going to take him to the shelter, I relented and had them bring him over.

Sasquatch as we called him, was all love and fur.  Over 120 pounds of it!  We did ultimately find a GP rescue who was willing to list him as a courtesy posting. We got a call a few weeks later from them saying someone was interested in him.  They lived on a farm in KY and had just lost their male after a long illness.  The female they had was depressed and lonely and they’d been looking for one to take the place of their male.  We gladly went to meet them and they were just wonderful people.  Sasquatch took right to them, even jumped right in their car, all ready to go to his new home!

 Dani - Dani was another FTGH dog on the internet. Her ad said she was pure bred but not registered. They'd bought her to breed her but she'd never gotten pregnant so they threw her in a pen at the back of their property and started feeling bad that she never got any attention so they were looking to find her a home.

I called them and told them I wanted her and drove to the north part of the state. When I picked her up I was told she was 8 or 9 years old and that I should breed her quick if I could so I could make some money off her puppies; make her earn her keep. I was livid that people really think this way. As if being a loyal and devoted family member even though you've thrown her out in a pen and given her no attention isn't bad enough, you expect her to earn her keep by providing you with puppies at her age, which could kill her??

Thanks to a local OES rescue group, we were able to get her moved up with them and they very quickly found her a wonderful home. I don't have any cleaned up pictures of Dani, just what was sent to me by her former owners. That's the condition that most of the dogs we take in come to us in.

Dot - On my way home from work one night, driving through Woodbury, I24 I saw a tiny little red and white beagle in the parking lot of the local Police Department.  I pulled into the gas station next door and went in to pay for gas and ask about the dog.  They said a woman and young boy pulled up that morning and dumped her.  The mom opened the door and tossed her out.  The boy got out crying and calling, but the mom made him get back in the car and they drove off without her.

It took me a good 15 minutes sitting in the PD parking lot before I could catch her.  So, if you work for Woodbury PD, no it wasn’t a crazy lady!  I took her home and through a friend on line I found her a home.  One friend was moving from Maryland to Utah and the other friend flew out to help her drive out there. They stopped in TN on the way to pick her up and off to her new home in Utah she20went, where her new best friend was a mastiff mix that was over 100 pounds!

Cocoa - Shortly after moving to TN I got a call from my husband at work one day.  He said a red and white dog walked in the yard and wouldn’t leave.  They wound up tying her up so she wouldn’t get hit by a car and then went door to door trying to find her a home.  No one claimed her, so we started looking to friends to see if anyone wanted to adopt her.

Again, through friends on line, I found her a home.  A friend in Oklahoma had a male pit bull=2 0she’d trained in search and rescue work.  Her mother had become interested in SAR as well and they were looking for a dog they could train.  Cocoa was perfect for them.  She was a beautiful red and white border collie / pit bull mix.  So the friend drove all the way over from OK to pick her up and take her back home where she was trained and started working as a SAR dog.

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