Sanctuary's Residents
Doughy This 12-year-old gal was turned into a local shelter where she was going to be killed. Imagine having an animal so long and then just giving up on her...
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Cubby was not a typical neighborhood stray. An accident fractured his hip causing him to hobble around. After more than a year, Cubby was finally corralled, but had no place to go...
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Prudence Five-year old Prudence was turned into a local animal shelter. She became overprotective and her new adopters were unable to handle this trait. Prudence was slated to be euthanized...
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Heidi Lucille, a case of neglect and total disregard for an old life, Heidi was brought to an animal shelter that would not adopt her out because she was 15 years old...
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Fuzzwink was found in a barn. His eyes were completely crusted shut and he had an upper respiratory infection. That didn't impede his larger-than-life personality...
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Penelope was found tied to a church's steps by a local priest who bought her to the local shelter...
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Hecuba chained up freezing and shivering waiting for food that rarely came was in deplorable condition and needed immediate attention...
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Argus, heart-broken and languishing in the animal shelter, was once someone's obedient companion...
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Odysseus is our wanderer. He was a street dog for 4 months until he was finally trapped and brought to the SPCA shelter...
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Rascal was turned into the Associated Humane Societies by his previous owners with the claim that he didn't get along with their new kitten...
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Amboy. Pulled from the streets of Perth Amboy by a police officer, this wild kitten was not animal shelter material...
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Jessie came to us as a result of an animal cruelty neglect case. Overgrown nails and missing hair down her back. Jesse was thrown out onto the streets when her family moved away...
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Pepper has a sad history. In 1999 he was forced to engage in a dogfighting. He was pulled out by a police officers before he was seriously wounded...
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Gemstone. was taken to a cat adoption show with a truck full of other cats and kittens. When the van returned to the shelter everybody had been adopted except Gemy...
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Cora, fifteen years old, was abandoned. Being fifteen years old she had no prospects of adoption out of a local shelter...
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Naughty. A pitbull from the inner city of Asbury Park, this poor dog has been shot, stabbed, forced to fight with other dogs, neglected by the owners he loved, and in the end, abandoned...
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Wylie is the lover boy of the sanctuary. The shelter refused to adopt him out because of an alleged history of biting...
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Missy. Too high-strung and nippy for most people to handle, she remained in a shelter day after day, month after month until the heartbreaking reality set in that there was no more time and no more room for her...
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Squeeky. When her owner died Squeeky and her brother were taken to a local shelter. There she stayed in a cage, confused, scared and lonely...
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Shari was suspected of having ringworm. Just the possibility of having this infection was reason enough for her to be euthanized. One of the shelter's volunteers who had fallen in love with her asked us to save her...
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Krystle. Honorary resident of the sanctuary. She passed away in 1999. We miss her terribly...
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Shelby. She is also a honorary resident. Shelby lives with this site's webmaster and his family.
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