Animal Profile Type: Rainbow Bridge

Mazi was found in Antigua by friends Erin and Gabriel, so skeletally thin and sick that she was barely able to walk. They coaxed her to their home, called us for help, and lovingly cared for her for two weeks until we could take her in. Mazi was in truly terrible condition. She was nothing…

Today another of our sweet angels crossed the Rainbow Bridge. We bid our beautiful Hazel goodbye with heavy hearts. Hazel came to us such a short time ago. In early December, an acquaintance called us to say that she had rescued a “Lab” in terrible condition and needed help. The photos she sent broke our…

Sweet Belsey crossed the Rainbow Bridge January 25, 2017. This beautiful young dog by rights should be blossoming and have had many years ahead of her. She was only about two years old. We don’t know who she belonged to, or where she came from. We do know that someone had her “spayed”. The quotation…

This morning (January 5, 2017) we helped our sweet Jo Jo cross the Rainbow Bridge. Jo Jo was a beautiful, sweet Shepherd mix who came into our care June 16, 2011. He was brought to us at the old Puppy Palace in town by a homeless man who said he was leaving the country. Jo…

We spotted George in July on the side of the highway in the town of Santa Lucia Milpas Altas. We couldn’t stop, but this mangy, old dog with a gigantic swelling jutting from his elbow haunted us. We saw him again in August, and in early October a good samaritan sent us photos begging us…

Sometime last night, October 25, 2016, our sweet Chakra crossed the Rainbow Bridge. We don’t know exactly how old Chakra was, but he was very, very old-likely at least 15. We were told that he arrived in 2002 at the facility he was previously interred in, presumably entering as an adult. His first fourteen years…

At the end of June, 2015 we were asked by Dr. Jim and two young volunteers, Jenna and Jillian Guffy to take in two geriatric dogs from another group. These dogs had lived their entire lives at this other site, were blind, and were in terrible condition. They lived in a pen with other dogs,…

Babo came to us with multiple health problems in March of 2016. Since he lived on the street in San Juan Gaspar and had no owner to take care of him he wasn’t doing well at all. He is old; probably about 12 years old, and has great difficulty walking. He has arthritis that causes him…

One day in 2006, a young, bouncy female dog followed a volunteer from a nearby town to a very large, very full shelter in the mountains. She was beautiful, sweet, playful and a typically jumpy and naughty teenage dog. We were at that time volunteering and trying to help at that shelter. We saw her…

On December 5th we lost our sweet Lassie. Her loss was very sudden and unexpected for us. She had slowly been losing weight over the past month or so, but was eating well and up and about as was normal for her.  On December 2 she didn’t hop up to greet us as usual, and…

On November 16 our beloved Essie crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Where to start, how to share what we are feeling at her loss? Essie lived most of her life at a horrifically overcrowded, filthy shelter. We know that she spent at least six years there, patiently and vainly waiting and hoping for someone to see her…

Milo came to us as one of eight tiny, month old puppies we took in and hand raised. The pups were left at just two weeks of age in a cardboard box beside their mom who was tied to the door of a local veterinary clinic. The mom slipped away and was not seen again, and the clinic…