Rescue

Young at Heart's Unconditional Love for Senior Pets by Jane Sobel Klonsky

November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month, an opportunity to celebrate the joy that adopting an older dog can bring. No one knows that joy more than the volunteers, fosters, and adopters of Young at Heart Senior Pet Adoptions, a Grey Muzzle grantee devoted to rescuing and rehoming older animals. Since 2005, they have been...

Maddie: A Muttville Happy Ending by Laura T. Coffey and Lori Fusaro 

A Shih Tzu named Maddie is one of the senior dogs featured in the new book My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts by Laura T. Coffey and Lori Fusaro (photographer). Maddie was rescued and then adopted to a wonderful home by Muttville Senior Dog Rescue . Located in San Francisco's Rescue Row...

Harley: The Little Senior Dog Who Became a Big Hero

When Harley - a now 14-year-old Chihuahua - was rescued from a commercial dog breeding facility, he was not expected to live another three months. Like many breeder dogs in puppy mills, he had spent his life up to that point confined to a wire cage and denied proper medical care or even the most...

Susie-Belle: Her Life Began the Day She Left the Puppy Mill by Janetta Harvey

Janetta Harvey, author of Saving Susie-Belle and Saving One More, is a writer and commentator on the international puppy breeding industry. Susie-Belle, her now 11-year-old Schnauzer, was rescued and adopted four years ago after having spent most her life in a dog breeding facility. When Susie-Belle joined our family in August 2011, she could have...