Sometime in late February, we were contacted by Hempstead Shelter about Avery, an 8 year-old female German Shepherd dog. Avery had been found as a stray by the local police department and turned into the shelter.

Some of you might have keept tabs on Angel through our Facebook postings. Angel came to Sedona in late February with the help of Charwill Kennels Rescue via the Philadelphia SPCA shelter.

A common question we receive from an owner looking to surrender their dog, or an adopter just interested in meeting one of our dogs is “How long does Sedona have a dog before he or she gets adopted?” Knowing the answer to that question is like knowing the velocity and location of an electron (if you waited long enough, we’d get the quantum physics and rescue correlation to pop up in one of our posts).

When we first met Gemma at Newark Shelter we were immediately drawn to her. How could we not be? Much like Sedona, Gemma was a frightened white German Shepherd and we knew from speaking with volunteers at the shelter that there was no interest in anyone adopting Gemma.

One of the questions we often get from people interested in rescue in general is, "How do you find dogs for your program"? This is one such story with a happy ending for a boy named Bo.