HAPPY ENDINGS
See our wonderful before and after videos, with music!
Read about people who have to steal dogs to rescue them and why.
Not every ending is happy and the dogs that didn't make it to happiness deserve to be known and remembered too: Rice and Goldie.
Happy ending stories:
- Many mini happy endings...
- Four years yoked to scrap metal...
- Put outside for being a puppy. Tied up for trying to escape. Muzzled for crying out of loneliness... Watch his video.
- From rescuer, Crystal Kerr..."Sweet Angelo - he really is a gentle soul. I hope to hear about the day he is snoozing in the sun, secure in his own skin, with a full tummy and not a care in the world. It's hard to believe that can even exist for him, because all I see in my mind is a skinny, dirty, frightened dog, gulping down any scraps of food he found and being terrorized by every other dog and human he encountered. Can't wait to see the pictures of him happy in his new home!!"
- We found Annie and her pups like this, covered in flies, wet and dirty, Annie's chain too tangled for her to reach the dog house (which was full of dirt), so Annie had dug a depression in the mud for her pups.
Bernie, Beanies, and Monty, Boop's babies...
- Three of Boops' babies, rescued one at a time after they were sold to the "wrong" people.
- Thank you, everyone who did this for Billie.
- In the rough world in villages up the coast of BC, Billy's story is all too common. He was put outside when just tiny. Starving, wormy, and cold, then run over by his "owner" who had put him outside. His hip broken, he still struggled to survive, creeping along ditches to try to escape the big pack dogs that harassed him and bit at his dragging leg. Thank God for Crystal Kerr who rescued him and flew him down to Animal Advocates.
- From the same fishing village up the BC coast where Billy, Angelo, and Patches were rescued from by the Crystal Kerr/AAS rescue team. Kids poked puppy Bobby in the eye with a stick. "Parents" wouldn't take him to a vet.
- A beautiful purebred Akita, dumped at the pound with a deadly genetic disease.
- Two old dogs, matted and ill, awaited death.
- The street dog whose owner regularly beat and kicked him right on the street of Vancouver, until an avenging angel stepped in.
- Bunny is a beautiful white cat, thrown out of a moving car near woods and train tracks, in the middle of the night, one day from having her kittens, Archie, Veronica, Betty, and Midge.
- Chained and being bred, puppies in flies and feces, hidden in a filthy dark garage, Cassie hidden under a junked car, trapped by a heavy chain.
- Little blind Chesney lived in a dysfunctional home where he was screamed at for barking, and kicked if he got in the way or ever had an accident. When he was screamed at, he would pee on the floor with fear, then he would be hit or kicked, then he would pee again, and so the cycle continued. Chesney just couldn't figure out what he was doing wrong and why his family treated him this way.
- Chains, mud, filth, puppies, and loneliness. Not any more.
- Bounced around like one of the balls he loves so much, now safe at last.
- Another day at AAS, another call for help for a neglected dog. A beautiful Doberman cross pup was being kept in a yard at a drug house.
- Finally these two brave and terrified women did the humane and moral thing...they removed Duffy one day and they found him the home that he deserved.
- He was seen in the freezing rain, his tether was tangled and he stood there, his head down, drenched to the skin.
Ellie and the duct tape dog...
- Not only did the SPCA not speak for puppy Ellie, but by being the dog-police (pound contractor) they issued warnings to her owner because she cried loudly and continuously on her lonely chain. The owners then muzzled her and boxed her under the porch. The duct tape dog almost killed himself when he tried to escape his isolation on the end of his chain.
- Another sick cat saved from the SPCA by AAS.
- Finnigan spent the first two years of his life chained. (Yes, he was chained as pup, in rain, snow, and unrelenting heat, without adequate shelter, and with no positive human interaction.)
- In 2003, I was up North on business, in Fort Good Hope, just below the Arctic Circle, staying at a bed and breakfast. It was 70 below with the wind-chill factor and I was snug in my bed when I heard a dog howling.
- Is the last survivor of a litter of kittens born of a feral mother cat.
- the drug house pup, left on his chain when the house was busted.
- 10 years on a chain. No blanket, toy, or bone. Often no clean food or water. AAS first saw her at night, lying in the frozen mud, being snowed and sleeted on. Lying in her own feces, surrounded by her own excrement.
- After a life in a crate this imprisoned girl blossomed into an affectionate, calm, confident and trusting soul.
- After six years, crouched in a basement stairwell on his chain, so afraid of anything unknown that his bladder and bowels emptied in fear when we called to him over the neighbour's fence.
- This little Dalmatian pup was the victim of the dog-reselling business.
- This SPCA officer also proceeded to tell me that if I didn't get my dog medical attention within the hour, he would arrest me, for animal cruelty, and seize the dog. I begged him to help me find somewhere to take my dog, he said the SPCA would take her and fix her, but then they would put her up for adoption, and I would not get her back.
- Markus is losing his will to live! He has been at Chilliwack Animal Control for over two months and during this time he has lost weight and is demonstrating how desperately he needs a family to call his own.
- Only a puppy ... a smashed leg ... filled with beebee pellets ...
- Puppies like Morgan shouldn't have to be rescued from lives on the end of ropes. There should be a law against this in B.C. but there isn't, in spite of Animal Advocates' 10 years of asking municipalities.
- I just wish to God that I'd taken him when I first saw him, but at least the last year or two of his life will help to make up for all the years of loneliness.
- Another free-range dog from Bella Bella where it really is a dog-eat-dog world and tiny pups are put outside to fend for themselves - or die. Patches almost died. Hungry and scavenging as so many dogs must do in too many parts of BC, he ate rat poison - a large amount. If Crystal hadn't sent him down to AAS just at that time, he would have died a death of lonely agony in Bella Bella because within in a week of arriving in Vancouver he was near death. AAS and some very good vets saved his life (it took three blood transfusions) and now he has a "home" at last, with kids who he loves and is so good with. It would have been a great shame if Patches had died - everyone who met Patches on his road back to life said the same thing...this is such a nice dog. We are so glad you saved him. Click the link above for the story and pictures of Patches' ordeal and happy ending.
- We saw Sandy on an SPCA web site that said he was an old abandoned dog, with diarrhea that wouldn't stop and not doing well. We sent a supporter in to buy him...
- From this...owned by a "hunter" near Vanderhoof who allowed him off his chain a few times a year to go hunting....to this....I truly believe in fate, and that Shadow was meant to be with us. He will never again be chained,cold, isolated and lonely, and he will always be treated as a valued family member.
- Sheba was a "car lot" dog, an all too common life for dogs. Vancouver has many car lot dogs; some live at the car lot full time like Sheba and some are rented by the night. Those are the saddest.
- AAS got one of its many calls from a frantic animal-lover who had found a dog with the marks of abuse on it. Skeeter's mark of abuse was a collar that had grown into his poor little puppy neck, plainly telling the tale of chaining and neglect. AAS said we would take him of course, get him all the medical care that would be needed and get him into a foster home to be rehomed - that is what we do. Our photos tell a different tale, one of health and happiness....
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Chilliwack Animal Control (the Chilliwack pound) sent an email to the rescue network about a very young, ailing, pup who needed out, quickly. Only 8-weeks old, he had worms, lice, fleas, and was not doing well in a pound; in fact, there was some concern about how long he would last. AAS got back instantly and told CAC to get the pup to their vet as quickly as possible, get him treated for all the parasites, and board him in the warmth of the clinic until we found a foster home for him. We did - we asked Diane who has fostered so many dogs for AAS, and she said yes. When we got Skeeter he had a bladder infection, which Diane, with all her years of valuable experience, recognized. That day, Skeeter was in to our vet, and antibiotics were started.
- Sophie was a "balcony dog". Her "owners" thought she shed too much, were out 12 hours a day, admitted they withheld water so she "wouldn't pee so much", withheld food because she was overweight ( NO exercise!), forced her to live in her own excrement in the broiling sun and pouring rain. What did the SPCA say when complained to by the neighbour who was sneaking over with a ladder to climb up and give her water? To find out, and to see Sophie's Happy Ending, click the link above.
- Animal Advocates got the call about Taz, a young Rottweiler cross, in 1998. We were told that Taz was the on her second litter of pups in a filthy backyard breeding operation in Burnaby. We went to the address and found a very sick bunch of dogs...
- ...was sold by the SPCA for $110.00 to an AAS supporter with her teeth in this condition. We had her back x-rayed, we did a geriatric blood panel to determine her general state of health (good except she has a slight heart murmur that is not slowing her down at all, but may require medication in the future) and we had her plaque-covered teeth cleaned and two rotten teeth removed at a cost of $563.00.
- The biggest Dalmatian we've ever rescued. A puppymill pup, probably bought for the kids, and then put on a chain.
Tyke aka Separation Anxiety in Motion...
- Tyke was kept in a garage for so many years that after he was rescued he became so hysterical if he thought he was alone again that AAS had him for almost two years while we helped him with his separation anxiety and searched for the right home. It doesn't get better than this.
- Willy's pen was full of mud and feces and was perpetually dark.
