Animal Profile Type: Adopted

Perla is one of our newer dogs. She was rescued by a team member and is currently in foster in Guatemala City with a fantastic foster mom. Perla is mid to lower energy, short coated and a perfect size. She is about a year old, and wonderful with adults, kids, other dogs and even cats.…

Marly and Bob are siblings who survived a pretty rough start to life.They were tied into a sack and thrown into a river to drown. Luckily for them, a kind person spotted the moving sack and waded into the river to retrieve them. They were tiny, sick and pretty pathetic. This kind hearted samaritan found…

Twig was born in the town of Comalapa and was rescued by some foreign volunteers there. We were in the town checking on one of our adopted dogs and they brought us this puppy, who was very, very sick. We feared distemper and offered to take her to our vet in Antigua. Thankfully, Twig did…

Reece was born in March, 2014 and is now about five and a half years old. She was rescued by Tessa as a young puppy and adopted locally at about four months of age to a lovely young woman Reece needs a new home, as her adopter’s situation has changed and there is a year old…

Oscar is a young male poodle. He is probably about 2 years old, and weighs about 12 lbs. He is cream/apricot in color, and is healthy and fit. We found him wandering in the middle of the highway near the rescue and picked him up because he was about to be run over. He had…

Leia is a lovely 2 to 3 year old female. She is medium-sized and short coated. Leia lived in a coffee farm near San Juan del Obispo, one of the villages we do sterilization clinics in. Leia wandered in accompanied by her puppy, Obi at the end of one of the clinic days. Our vets…

Roosy was trapped on the median on the busy highway between Antigua and Guatemala City. She had been hit by a car, and was injured and bleeding. Francesca managed to stop and grab her before she was struck again. Roosy was lucky. She only had a cut that needed suturing and bruising and soreness. No…

Webster is a young male Labrador or Lab mix. He is probably about a year or year and a half old, and weighs about 60 lbs. He was left tied up with a home-made string harness outside the home of one of our team members. He was skeletally thin and had large bare patches worn…

Timon and Pumbaa (who may or may not be brothers) were brought to one of our sterilization clinics from the town of Santa Maria de Jesus. They were surviving (barely) on the street there, and both were suffering from mange, internal parasites and malnutrition. The people who brought them planned to release them back to…

Nikki is a gorgeous, sweet black lab mix. She was found as a tiny puppy by a volunteer in Chimaltenango. She was too small to be separated from her mother and siblings, and was in poor shape. Tessa and Gerson took her in to foster, and she has grown up with a big gang of…

Guinness was found by one of our student volunteers wandering around at a local brew-pup, hence his name. He was in pretty poor condition, skinny and loaded with parasites and the beginning signs of mange on his face and ears. He was only about 3 months old. We brought him in and from the first…

When Keri and Tessa dug the four black and white puppies out of their den at the bottom of a drainage ditch, their mama came running to protect them. She quickly realized that these humans meant help, not harm to her babies, and happily accompanied them and her brood back to the vehicle. Mama came…