Caring for Pets Stories

Teenage girl empathizes with and adopts a senior cat who is deaf and in renal failure, requiring daily fluids and ongoing medications.

Roberta Monti volunteers with timid, fearful dogs at Best Friends in Atlanta, Georgia, helping to socialize and get them ready for adoption.

Tuco the black Lab works hard at training, including overcoming his food guarding tendencies, and relaxes by enjoying time in the dog park pool.

Shy heeler mix dog hit by a car suffers dislocated hip and a damaged back leg. He is recovering and getting lots of love.

Senior boxer dog receives medications, supplements and spa treatments (laser, hydrotherapy, acupuncture and chiropractic sessions) to feel his best.

Cat with heart disease (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, causing a thickening of his heart walls) is receiving medical treatment and TLC at the Sanctuary.

Two matted dogs, a senior cocker spaniel and senior poodle, receive makeovers that transform them. Both found a forever home together.

Naughty kitten, who is FeLV-discordant and loves dogs, engages in all kinds of mischievous shenanigans in his foster home.

Big orange tabby cat, with a great personality and who is positive for FIV (sometimes called by misnomer ‘feline HIV,' is adopted into a forever home.

With training and patience, unsociable, introverted, loner senior terrier dog learns to trust people and is adopted into a forever home.

Found fending for himself, abandoned puppy is rescued, gets tick treatment, finally gets enough food and receives socialization in his foster home.

Surrendered together to the shelter, a pitbull mother dog and one of her pups are later reunited after they had been adopted into separate homes.

Family bought micro piglet, but she's not a teacup pig. She'll grow into a 100 to 200-pound potbelly pig. She's growing and learning at the Sanctuary.

Tabby and white cat was elusive and uninterested in other cats and people, but with patience from his caregivers he's become more social and friendly.

Poodle with special needs (incontinence due to weak back end) who loves to play fetch comes to Best Friends for help from NorCal Poodle Rescue.