What a difference a home makes! An abandoned dog, struggling to survive and searching through rubbish for food, has completely transformed with the help of her new family.
Juno was abandoned by her previous family in De Doorns, Cape Town in South Africa and two months passed. The poor dog was a “little skeleton” by the time Sidewalk Specials received a call from the neighbors. They had tried to help Juno but couldn’t afford to feed her properly.
One month later, Juno’s life is so different!
Juno has gone from forgotten to cherished, now enjoying snuggles at story time and daily adventures in the wetlands.
Just like people, some dogs just aren’t cut out for a life of service. Take Ryker for instance. The German Shepherd dog was training to be a service dog at Double H Canine Training Academy but it quickly became apparent Ryker just wasn’t going to pass. In fact, he flunked spectacularly. The dog training school…
Rescuers couldn’t figure out why Bee never wanted to stay. She would got to a family but then run away, despite being in a happy home and being an ‘A’ student at SCARS rescue shelter, where she had excelled in her training. She had started her life as a street dog in Greece and would…
When Lucy showed up in someone’s yard, the Golden Retriever looked like she had “been bred hard.” She was bedraggled and wouldn’t eat hard kibble. A Good Samaritan contacted Lee Asher with The Asher House and he came out to rescue the dog. Lucy had scars on her head and nose and had just had…
Miss Willie the dog was kept chained outside in North Carolina for 12 long years, according her rescuers. Until the day one of the staff of PETA found Miss Willie too weak to stand and suffering from advanced heart worm disease. Miss Willie’s owner finally agreed to give her up, and that’s when one volunteer…
It was over 90 degrees (32 C) in St. Louis when the call came in that a nursing dog and her puppies were hanging around a waste area of Midwest Waste in St. Louis. Rescuers from Stray Rescue of St. Louis immediately drove out to the dump and began to rummage through the bushes in…
A puppy is lucky to be alive after a Good Samaritan heard his faint barks in the woods and went to investigate. Kaleigh Wetrich was walking with a friend on a Sunday through the woods after having visited a nearby apartment in Oak Cliff, Texas. She heard a faint bark and when she went to…
