Celebrate

When you go into the shelters you see all different kinds of pups, from the wise old gal all the way down to the shy little boys. Every once in a while, though, one will jump out at you. That is what happened with my newest foster, little Miss Adeline.

December of last year at our company holiday party, I came upon a sad story about this little pit bull with a huge hematoma from a botched spay. We decided that we wanted to help her, this dog named Hope; our rationale was that this would be our “good deed” for the year.

My husband and I knew we wanted to adopt a companion for ourselves and for our thirteen-year-old Elderbull, Samoa. Our other senior pit bull mix passed away about a year prior, and we decided we were finally ready to adopt again...

"You can't hold a dog like that and then not keep her," said Trevett, my oldest brother. It was early November of 2011, and I was intimately but not inappropriately spooning Maggie May on the floor of my apartment in Miracle Mile...

Ilene has come a long way from her humble beginnings - read to learn about her perfect match to her adoring new parents and a canine sibling named Boomer!