Wholesome Rescue Stories for Potential Pupper Pawrents Ready to Fall in Love

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jul 26, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

When you are in the market for something, the best thing you can do is get a wide range of reviews and stories to best understand what impact it will have on your life. And while we usually take a deep dive into our rescue stories, today we wanted to offer you the opportunity to hear from the hooman's mouth what it was like to save their pawdorable pupper from a life that they did not deserve. So that when you do eventually decide to go for it and bring home a cute canine child, you will know what it means.

You will know that you are giving hope and optimism to a creature that just wants to love. You will know how hard their life had been before you stepped into, shower them with love and light. And most importantly, you will know that you did everything you could in the name of doggo love to make sure that one more sweet four pawed soul is off the street and sleeping in linen sheets.
 

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    We don't know much about my rescue (Turner), we can only theorize based on what we've seen. But it's clear he had a really hard life before he was found.
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    His front right paw was broken and since he was lost in the woods with no vet it never healed properly so he has a limp. Also on his right side he has a deep scar and his right eye is kind of red. He had to get
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    two surgeries to remove most of his teeth because they were horribly cracked and infected. The vet said he was probably so desperate he was eating rocks in an attempt to survive. He was adopted by
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  • Well that is a new one. Can you imagine the sheer stage of desperation a doggo has to get to in order to decide that subsisting on rocks is a good idea? We are talking about the animal that has a taste for shoes here, there bar is set pretty low as it is. 

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    beagle and they're already prone to separation anxiety, but since he was abandoned and then one day brought back to a shelter after having a family his separation anxiety is terrible. Rest assured
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    though, he's now a very happy, very spoiled dog with all the love in the world. In fact a few days ago on november 2nd it was his 5 year anniversary, and he's around 13 and still very healthy!
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  • Wow, what a wonderfully happy ending to such a sorrow-field story. Take this as a reminder that adoption is not only an amazing way to bring a bundle of light and joy into your home, but it is also the act of completely turning an animal’s life around. You could be the reason that a doggo gets to feel safe and cared for, when no one else did.

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    My rescue girl was left in a box on the front steps of a vet clinic. She was maybe 4-5 weeks old. In the box with her was her severed front leg. One of her hind legs was badly mangled, her tail was torn off and she hac a giant gaping wound in her side. Unfortunately she got the
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    attention of a scam animal rescuer who saw dollar signs from posting this sad story It was my job to change the dressing on her wounds. As I went in to the room the 'rescuer' scammer handed me his camera and said to make a sad video. I made the video and
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    looked at the tiny puppy sitting there so bravely. I deleted the vid, gave the guy back back his camera and told him this is my dog now. Almost 14 years later and shes still with me.
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    Bruno belonged to our neighbors. Their 12 yo daughter was highly allergic to animals, but had been begging for a pet. So they got her a doodle.
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    First time i saw the 3 month old ball of fluff I asked my SO "they know he's going to be a BIG dog, right?" (Narrator voice: they did not know how big standard poodles get)
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    another family before my family adopted him but they had to bring him back because he didn't get along with their other pets. He's a
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    After a few months, they were overwhelmed with fast-growing chaos puppy and asked us to take him a few weeks to help him get house-trained. He neve had an accident inside while we had him.
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    When he was at his "home" he was usually left outside. Backyard had goatheads (which we had methodically removed from his coat), so he was usually in a concrete side yard. My SO
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    would go over to hang out with puppy a few times a day (we could hear him whining and barking for hours.) We puppy- sat as often as we could without implying that they weren't doing enough. 3 kids and health industry jobs were already a whole lot, they just underestimated how much puppies need.
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    Long story short: they got way too much dog for what they could handle. But luckily they knew it. When we were getting ready to move, they asked if we'd like to take him with us. No "rehoming fee" just what was best for puppy and their family.
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    And that's why we have a bougie-ass Bernedoodle who we rescued from the Oakland 'hood.
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