The Rottie-mix without a name, is now Ernie. WE adpoted him! Turns out he was brought into the shelter as a stray along with another dog running loose. They did have tags with a home number. When the shelter called, she said she was unemployed and unable to afford to keep the dogs. Ernie was there for almost 3 months and was not claimed or adopted :-( Poor guy. I can tell he misses his previous family & I bet they miss him too.

This is our new foster dog - the shelter was calling him either "Whiskers" or "Catfish", but neither of those seems right. He was a stray and had been at the shelter since late September! Poor guy needed to get out of that depressing atmosphere. He is 6 years old and some type of Rottweiler/Terrier (?) mix, calm but playful, housetrained, and only $25 to adop… Continue

Spike was such a sweet guy - he likes to "talk" like Chewbaca. He found a wonderful home, although it will take some time to get used to his new cat pal. Whiskers was not sad to see him go! Spike and Mooch kept me company while Tony was in London, and I almost wanted to keep Spike for good. I probably would have if Lyndsey didn't come along for him. Bye Spike, we will miss you!!

Izzie's new Mom is going to devote lots of time to her, and can even take her to work sometimes. There are no other people or animals in the home, so they will be best pals. A great forever home for her!

I picked Izzie up from the shelter yesterday. She had been there since 4/29/09, so several weeks of being an unclaimed stray and then available for adoption. She and Moochie seemed to be doing fine when I put one in the yard and one in the kennel, however upon meeting face to face without the fence they got into a tussle. This is not unusual with Moochie, who is highly territorial and will fight a dog at the smallest impression that the dog may want to be dominant. She tried to chase the cat and… Continue