Animal Rescuers......

<--- 1 of my 2 rescued babies;-) Great post!

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

<--- This is Zues, our Chow Chow!

Hope my pic changed. Love this and love all of my rescues.

In my pic, the black lab is Devo, he passed almost 2 years ago and was our first rescue. His old owner was getting rid of him because his wife at the time didn't like the dog. (I would have kicked the wife out instead)

The black and white kitty, is Moe, he is 3ish and we rescused him from our local city pound. They were overflowing at the time and found out later that they are a kill shelter so who knows how many days my Moe would have had had he stayed.

The orange, white and black kitty was born at our farm and she decided to stick around. She is more farm cat than house cat most days and is an excellent mouser.

The chocolate lab is Paden, he just turned five in August. We rescused him from a local rescue that he had been with for a year or more. He has hip displaysia so I think he was passed over a lot because of it. He is so handsome though and a perfect angel, most of the time. You wouldn't know he has hip displaysia as he runs with me 3x a week for 4K plus.

And Ruby is our last rescue, (I was told I couldn't bring anymore home at this point, 4 is enough). An aquaintance of my husband's had her, he is a truck driver and would leave her at home weeks at a time while he was gone on the road. And one trip while he was gone she had played with and killed the baby kittens and because of this he decided she needed to go and was going to shoot her. I saved her with probably and hour to spare. She didn't have any toys, didn't know how to play, I think was also hit and she shys away when you got to pet her - but with all of that she is one of the best furbabies I have ever had.

I wrote a blog about her here http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/kendradl?month=201206

If I could I would bring every stray I found home with me, it breaks my heart that I can't save them all.

Good idea...my pitty is no longer with us, but she was a rescue dog as well....saved from what would have likely been a short life as a bait dog in the Detroit dog fighting rings!

This is a beautiful story, I wish everyone was as wonderful a person!

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Finny, our shelter dog, who has both been a huge pain in the butt and exactly the motivation I needed to exercise. We also have a rescue lab and two adopted cats. Love this thread! October is Adopt a Shelter Dog month!

Mine is already set to my rescue girls, as I sadly lost one of them last week. I fully support animal rescue. The people who do animal rescue work are my heroes.

<--- Barnaby. Not a rescue pet, but she was bought from a shop with her sister, Boffin, who kept their rats in barely appropriate conditions - i.e. small and overcrowded cage, put on sawdust (which is bad for their respiratory systems), and not handled. They were SO skittish when I got them and now, after many months of handling, they're little sweeties. Proper shoulder rats :')

It saddens me that not many shelters in my area will take in rodents (mice, hamsters, gerbils, degus, ratties, etc), so this is for the ones that open their doors to any animal, no matter how unusual

Great thread! We got the Chi (Brandy) 9 years ago when the couple who was breeding Chihuahuas split up and couldn't keep her (they were going to keep her along with the parents). If we didn't take her, the lady was taking her to the shelter. The pittie (Scarlett) we rescued 2 years ago from Animal Control. The shelter named her Scarlett because she has scars on her head, neck and legs. She was around 9 months when we got her and they think they were either trying to train her to be a fighter or using her as a bait dog.

My Chi is a grouch who has scared the pittie since the day she walked in the door. After two years Brandy tolerates Scarlett much better and they can share the same ray of sunshine without the Brandy chasing Scarlett off.

I love the pics of all your pets. Thank you for rescuing. :-)

Done! This is Frida, She is a SATO, a Puerto Rican Street dog rescue.
The amazing and wonderful organization in Puerto Rico that works tirelessly to save as many street dogs and cats as they can is Save a Sato. I donate pretty regularly and they have an Amazon wish list that you can order supplies from and have them sent directly to the shelter in PR.
It's no skin off my back to send $30 worth of nutritional support and cleaning supplies every once in a while! Especially when there are so many beautiful animals down there and I could only personally save one, my little baby, Miss Frida, the sassiest lady in New England (and the coldest because she does miss that Puerto Rican climate!).
Also, if you are ever on vacation in PR, contact them. They always always always need volunteers to be the person on record flying back to the states with a dog so that it can be adopted, because there are no adoption opportunities on the island.

<---- this is my Knuckles, he's the best. My mom got him for me from a friend of her's at work who's wife told him that if he didn't find the kittens a home she would take them to be put down He weighs in at a slim 15 pounds!

<~~~~Coco she is a toy poodle that I rescued. She was beaten and because of those beatings she had seizures ( The vet and I tried every medication possible to help and unfortunately it was a Grand Mal seizure that took her life. I was devastated. I only had her for 2 years and she was only approximately 4 years old. I do have another dog, but she's not a rescue. I was scared to death to take that chance with rescuing again.

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This is my Kit Kat, he was abandon by his owners, the Animal Control CALLED them, since he had tags, and they never returned the call. I got him as a playmate to my Sweetie Cat, he is in my ticker; who probably isn't a rescue in the general sense, but the family was wanting to get rid of him, so I got him (to replace 2 cats I had lost in a year, then lost a 3rd after) Kit Kat is the BEST cat, so mellow. He *must be* where ever I am. He was so ill, he was in quarantine, for 3 weeks after I brought him home.

I didn't want a 2nd cat, but my Sweetie Cat has the most energy I've ever seen in a cat, even at 8 y/o (just had a b-day, and I got him at 8 weeks, so we've been together nearly 8 years, Kit Kat just passed the 7 year w/me anniversary) As I type this, they are both curled up on the back of the chair with me...it's getting cooler and they snuggle with each other and me in cool/cold weather.

I also volunteer with a local rescue sanctuary. I've only lived with one animal as an adult that was not a rescue. I think part of me is trying to "make up" for my moronic step-father just dumping unwanted animals down a country road somewhere.

Also, don't forget. Spay and neuter!

This is Sydney she was rescued from a shelter as a puppy. Born in a farmers field. She is ten now. They told us she was an australian cattle dog and lab mix but that was just a guess.

I think she definitely has cattle dog in her, she's got that classic white spot on her head. My Hannah is a cattle dog mix too, just not sure what the mix is!

<--This is Mundus.

I adopted him in 2008 when he was 3 years old. He was left by the previous owner because he didn't get along with their jack russel and he was not in the best of shape when I picked him up. He had a bit of a skin rash and was missing patches of fur. When I picked him up he was the happiest and most calm thing and I felt we had an instant strong connection

It wasn't long before he healed up his skin and grew a nice healthy coat.

<---- The second love of my life! Yes, she is napping under a newspaper. Hey - she's a rescue. You can take a dog out of the streets, but you can't take the streets out of the dog!

She's a great Beagle. The calmest, quietest, best-behaved one I've ever met. My family can't believe that she's a Beagle. They all got Beagles after we got ours, thinking they were going to behave the same way. HAHAHA! No...