Adoption Stories

Takeo & Beni

April 1, 2024

Our dogs, Takeo and Beni, were fostered by the same family! We adopted Takeo first, and shortly after, had to move across the country to Miami. His foster family took in Beni several months later, ...

Riley

March 3, 2024

Riley was a 3 year old husky we found while scrolling on Facebook one night after work we immediately felt connected to him so we messaged the owner about him it turns out he was homeless and the p...

Odie

February 20, 2024

I got Odie a couple of months after losing my heart dog, who was my family dog. I had wanted nothing more than a dog to call my own. I had been seeing the numbers 222 everywhere the weeks prior to ...

Daphne

January 27, 2024

I adopted my dog Daphne, from Forgotten Friends of Long Island in 2018 when she was just 6 months old. This shelter had rescued her from a high kill shelter in Georgia. She was a stray & never ...

Tango

November 3, 2023

Tango was listed on a Facebook friend’s page who dose networking for high euthanasia shelters. He was due to be pts the day the rescue pulled him. I had talked to my friend about finding a rescu...

Winston

October 5, 2023

I am a grad student and have always grown up with dogs but finally was in a place where I could have my own. I have some allergies though so I knew I wanted a doodle, but couldn’t afford one from a...

Rebel

October 3, 2023

In 2018, James and I both felt like there was a dog-shaped hole in our family. Our cat Bailey was purrrfect, but we had both grown up with dogs and we were in a place where we finally had the space...

Soki

September 25, 2023

It was a hot July afternoon when I heard loud howls coming from my neighbor's house. Concerned, I walked over to see what was going on. To my surprise, I learned that she was fostering a beagle tha...

Luna

August 1, 2023

My husband & I had just gotten married and both started new jobs that gave us the ability to WFH full-time, so naturally we had the conversation of, "now what, baby or dog?" Welp, dog won. One ...