Cassie came to stay with Homeless Pets Foundation in December of 2010 as an owner surrender. She was so despondent not knowing why she had lost her owner after 7 years to end up alone & lonely in her cage.

All the volunteers tried to cheer her up but nothing worked, after 6 months we were afraid that she may succumb to her depression.

One day a volunteer struck up a conversation with a neighbor in the local grocery store about Cassie and the other dogs needing love at the clinic.The neighbor John, decided on the spot that he would come help walk the dogs at the shelter that day. John went to visit Cassie first and was surprised to discover that he recognized her as belonging to a former coworker!

Cassie ended up not getting walked that day, she was adopted immediately by John and whisked away to her new forever home.

Now she has a stay-at- home Mommy and 2 young boys that lavish her with love all day long. She even has doggie playmates that come visit her and a favorite chair to sleep in, when she is not playing hide & seek with visitors in the window. The joy simply glows on this dog’s face nowadays, evidence that just a little love and a simple chat with a neighbor can transform an animals life. This is the kind of happy ending that all of us at Homeless Pets Foundation work towrds achieving. Come volunteer and reap the rewards of saving lives and completing families.

Tuck was a Homeless Pet for over a year. He came from a kill shelter and was nothing but skin and bones when he came in. Once the staff got his health under control, he became somewhat aggressive (more like cage rage). He was labeled dog aggressive, and he went weekend after weekend with no interest. A dog training took interest in him and volunteered to foster him. She worked with him for about 6 weeks and come to find out he’s not dog aggressive, she just needed time to release his energy. She never had an incident between him and her dogs, even in the begining.

But still, probably because he’s a pit, he just sat, waiting for a home.

Luckily, Sandi Nida, a Homeless Pets volunteer, asked two good friends, Richard and his brother Randy, to consider keeping him.  Richard, Randy, Randy’s son & his girlfriend all came over to meet Tuck and they took him home that day.  I told them that I wanted him back if they decided not to keep him.  That was never a thought.  The only decision to be made was who would actually be the owner of Tuck, and they decided on Randy, and Tuck has been living the dream ever since. Don’t believe me? Check out his pics!

While driving to work one day on Wednesday, October, 2010, a Good Samaritan, Erik, passed an apparently dead dog laying in the median of a busy Atlanta, GA highway. When he took one last look at the poor dog in her rear-view mirror, he saw the dog raise its head. The dog was still alive! Erik turned around and drove back to rescue the dog, and rushed him over to Town and Country Veterinary Clinic. Dr. Good evaluated the dog, a Pug, who was barely conscious, emaciated, dehydrated, matted with burrs and infested with ticks, and had likely been on his own for weeks. Because of his dislocated pelvis and front leg, major head swelling, and numerous scrapes and bruises, the dog couldn’t stand or walk. He would have suffered and died in the hot sun that day if not for his rescuers.

Within two days, Brody had begun to recover and could sit up. Erik and his wife offered to foster the dog, now named Brody, until he could find a home, and the Homeless Pet Foundation covered the medical costs for treating Brody. He has since been adopted! Brody is a very lucky dog!