Dog Rescue Stories - Happy Endings

Happy ending dog rescue stories:

AAS greeting cards...

Many mini happy endings...

Alfie #2

Put outside for being a puppy. Tied up for trying to escape. Muzzled for crying out of loneliness...

Angel has landed...

From rescuer, Crystal Kerr..."Sweet Angelo - he really is a gentle soul. I hope to hear about the day he is snoozing in the sun, secure in his own skin, with a full tummy and not a care in the world. It's hard to believe that can even exist for him, because all I see in my mind is a skinny, dirty, frightened dog, gulping down any scraps of food he found and being terrorized by every other dog and human he encountered. Can't wait to see the pictures of him happy in his new home!!"

Annie and her pups...

We found Annie and her pups like this, covered in flies, wet and dirty, Annie's chain too tangled for her to reach the dog house (which was full of dirt), so Annie had dug a depression in the mud for her pups.

Beau, the Kumsheen Dog

Animal Advocates gets many emails a day from people who know of a dog who needs rescuing, who can't rescue the dog themselves, and who beg AAS to.

Beau, the Kumsheen dog is one of many who, against all odds, we were able to find, rescue and give a real home at last.

Bernie, Beanies, and Monty, Boop's babies...

Three of Boops' babies, rescued one at a time after they were sold to the "wrong" people.

Billy...

In the rough world in villages up the coast of BC, Billy's story is all too common. He was put outside when just tiny. Starving, wormy, and cold, then run over by his "owner" who had put him outside. His hip broken, he still struggled to survive, creeping along ditches to try to escape the big pack dogs that harassed him and bit at his dragging leg. Thank God for Crystal Kerr who rescued him and flew him down to Animal Advocates.

Bobby...

From the same fishing village up the BC coast where Billy, Angelo, and Patches were rescued from by the Crystal Kerr/AAS rescue team. Kids poked puppy Bobby in the eye with a stick. "Parents" wouldn't take him to a vet.

Braille...

A beautiful purebred Akita, dumped at the pound with a deadly genetic disease.

Brandy and Nikki...

Two old dogs, matted and ill, awaited death.

Buddy/Yoda...

The street dog whose owner regularly beat and kicked him right on the street of Vancouver, until an avenging angel stepped in.

Chuck...

Bounced around like one of the balls he loves so much, now safe at last.

Diesel...

All alone... chained... -40 degrees in the Yukon... poor Diesel endured for four years until his rescue angels came for him.

Gotza...

In 2003, I was up North on business, in Fort Good Hope, just below the Arctic Circle, staying at a bed and breakfast. It was 70 below with the wind-chill factor and I was snug in my bed when I heard a dog howling.

I found a terrified, matted, and filthy Lhasa Apso at the SPCA

It had been slated to be destroyed. The dog had been a stray for weeks and had been transferred around several times. The cute little guy shook my hand with his paw through the cage and touched my heart in a way that forced me to take action to help him.

Jasper

She told us that she heard that Jasper was about to be surrendered to the BC SPCA and having much reason not to trust the SPCA she went and got him before that could happen. She told us that she drove an hour out of town to go rescue him.

Judith...

10 years on a chain. No blanket, toy, or bone. Often no clean food or water. AAS first saw her at night, lying in the frozen mud, being snowed and sleeted on. Lying in her own feces, surrounded by her own excrement.

Keeda...

After a life in a crate this imprisoned girl blossomed into an affectionate, calm, confident and trusting soul.

Keesha

Shortly after I moved to Charlottetown P.E.I. from BC I took my dog for a walk on the next street where I saw a white Husky chained to a small disgusting doghouse which was surrounded by body-holes that the dog had dug. There was no shade or grass around the area.

Kito...

After six years, crouched in a basement stairwell on his chain, so afraid of anything unknown that his bladder and bowels emptied in fear when we called to him over the neighbour's fence.

Little Dal...

This little Dalmatian pup was the victim of the dog-reselling business.

Lucy...

This SPCA officer also proceeded to tell me that if I didn't get my dog medical attention within the hour, he would arrest me, for animal cruelty, and seize the dog. I begged him to help me find somewhere to take my dog, he said the SPCA would take her and fix her, but then they would put her up for adoption, and I would not get her back.

Markus...

Markus is losing his will to live! He has been at Chilliwack Animal Control for over two months and during this time he has lost weight and is demonstrating how desperately he needs a family to call his own.

Misty...

Only a puppy ... a smashed leg ... filled with beebee pellets ...

Morgan...

Puppies like Morgan shouldn't have to be rescued from lives on the end of ropes. There should be a law against this in B.C. but there isn't, in spite of Animal Advocates' 10 years of asking municipalities.

Nelson

Another day in the life of Animal Advocates...

Hi, My name is Kristian, and I found a stray black lab with a very very sad story.

According to the many people in my neighbourhood and at the pound who I spoke to, he was originally found running around on the highway, very cold and scared. He must have been on the run for quite a long time to get so thin and bony.

Nitro...

He was hit by a car and should have died... Nitro is a 1-year-young male Doberman who has an amazing temperament. He is very loving and affectionate. His ears go back when people approach which shows submissive qualities. This shouldn't have happened to him...

Oscar

Oscar was thrown over the railings at the top of the stairs, and then given away when he couldn't walk. That "family" only kept him for a few days. And then - at last - wee Oscar got the luck that he had always deserved, the luck that would save him from a short, terrified life of pain. He was spotted by an Animal Advocates rescuer who bought him.

Patches...

Another free-range dog from Bella Bella where it really is a dog-eat-dog world and tiny pups are put outside to fend for themselves - or die. Patches almost died. Hungry and scavenging as so many dogs must do in too many parts of BC, he ate rat poison - a large amount. If Crystal hadn't sent him down to AAS just at that time, he would have died a death of lonely agony in Bella Bella because within in a week of arriving in Vancouver he was near death. AAS and some very good vets saved his life (it took three blood transfusions) and now he has a "home" at last, with kids who he loves and is so good with. It would have been a great shame if Patches had died - everyone who met Patches on his road back to life said the same thing...this is such a nice dog. We are so glad you saved him. Click the link above for the story and pictures of Patches' ordeal and happy ending.

Roxie the roof puppy

She was only two months old when an Animal Advocates of BC colleague saw her teetering on the edge of a second-floor roof. She would peer over the edge, trying to judge if she could jump, then go back on the deck and scratch and cry at the door, unheard, or unheeded. She cried piercing puppy cries the whole time. If she'd been silent she may not have been heard and seen by our colleague and there may have been no puppy to rescue, just a corpse dangling on the end of the leash.

Sandy...

We saw Sandy on an SPCA web site that said he was an old abandoned dog, with diarrhea that wouldn't stop and not doing well. We sent a supporter in to buy him...

Shadow...

From this...owned by a "hunter" near Vanderhoof who allowed him off his chain a few times a year to go hunting....to this....I truly believe in fate, and that Shadow was meant to be with us. He will never again be chained,cold, isolated and lonely, and he will always be treated as a valued family member.

Sheba...

Sheba was a "car lot" dog, an all too common life for dogs. Vancouver has many car lot dogs; some live at the car lot full time like Sheba and some are rented by the night. Those are the saddest.

Skeeter I...

AAS got one of its many calls from a frantic animal-lover who had found a dog with the marks of abuse on it. Skeeter's mark of abuse was a collar that had grown into his poor little puppy neck, plainly telling the tale of chaining and neglect. AAS said we would take him of course, get him all the medical care that would be needed and get him into a foster home to be rehomed - that is what we do. Our photos tell a different tale, one of health and happiness...

Skeeter II...

Chilliwack Animal Control (the Chilliwack pound) sent an email to the rescue network about a very young, ailing, pup who needed out, quickly. Only 8-weeks old, he had worms, lice, fleas, and was not doing well in a pound; in fact, there was some concern about how long he would last. AAS got back instantly and told CAC to get the pup to their vet as quickly as possible, get him treated for all the parasites, and board him in the warmth of the clinic until we found a foster home for him. We did - we asked Diane who has fostered so many dogs for AAS, and she said yes. When we got Skeeter he had a bladder infection, which Diane, with all her years of valuable experience, recognized. That day, Skeeter was in to our vet, and antibiotics were started.

Star

Muffled cries of distress were coming from a cardboard box in Prince George BC. It was 35 degrees below zero, and it was only by luck that a woman heard those faint cries. What she found in the box shocked her … a three-month old Yorkie-poodle pup with a thick rubber band around her muzzle. She must have been there several days because her lips and nose were so terribly swollen that they were almost beyond a vet's skill to save. She was weak and almost dead. Animal Advocates was asked for help. We said, "Yes, of course we will."

Taz...

Animal Advocates got the call about Taz, a young Rottweiler cross, in 1998. We were told that Taz was the on her second litter of pups in a filthy backyard breeding operation in Burnaby. We went to the address and found a very sick bunch of dogs...

Tippi...

...was sold by the SPCA for $110.00 to an AAS supporter with her teeth in this condition. We had her back x-rayed, we did a geriatric blood panel to determine her general state of health (good except she has a slight heart murmur that is not slowing her down at all, but may require medication in the future) and we had her plaque-covered teeth cleaned and two rotten teeth removed at a cost of $563.00.

Trip

Night was falling and the puppy was howling and alone. There was no water, no food. My children and I walked over to the pup and sat with him because he was scared, shaking and obviously desperate not to be alone.

Willow

A lady went to buy a pup from a Great Dane breeder and saw Willow, an eight week-old puppy, walking into everything, barely able to walk, scared and crawling around. The breeder said she was going to put her down as she would be "no good". So the lady took Willow along with two more puppies. Willow adapted for most part, though needing to be guided when in a new place and still walking into things and hitting her head, which was not good at all. She was easily scared by sudden noises and movements.

Wheeler

From under the wheels of a parked 18-wheeler truck a tiny dog was seen running for its life by a kind man who managed to scoop it into his arms after a mad and scary chase for both of them. If the tiny dog ran back across the busy road, this time it may not have made it. The kind man took the trembling dog to his office where he gave it some water and made it a bed in box until he could take it home and feed it.

Willie

Beaten in a dark and dirty pen. Then one day his hell ended...

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