Success Stories

Our favorite part is the happily-ever-after.

We love to hear from families who have adopted an animal from us and we love learning about their new lives together. Here are just a few of our success stories.

Please share your story with us!

 
 

Ginger & Uno, 2023

Ginger was pregnant and outside in 101 degrees temperature and gave birth. We found 1 puppy and named her Uno. Ginger was very young. Our team looked for more puppies, but didn’t find more.  We found a foster for her and her puppy. The foster could only keep her for a couple weeks.  Another foster took them in and adopted Ginger. Then Uno found another home.  We think Uno’s owner is moving out of the country and we may need to find him another home. Ginger is doing great in her home.  

Ginger needed eye surgery as one of her eyes was poking out.  It was just going to be cosmetic stuff so the owner decided we didn’t need to do it.

Ginger was pregnant and outside in 101 degrees temperature and gave birth. We found 1 puppy and named her Uno. Ginger was very young. Our team looked for more puppies, but didn’t find more.  We found a foster for her and her puppy. The foster could only keep her for a couple weeks.  Another foster took them in and adopted Ginger. Then Uno found another home.  We think Uno’s owner is moving out of the country and we may need to find him another home. Ginger is doing great in her home.  

Ginger needed eye surgery as one of her eyes was poking out.  It was just going to be cosmetic stuff so the owner decided we didn’t need to do it.  

 

Lady, 2022

In late 2021, a woman in Calhoun noticed a litter of puppies living under a dumpster in her neighborhood. She kept watching for the mother (who she had seen roaming the neighborhood with another dog for about a year), and kept trying to catch her, but was only able to capture the puppies. The woman who caught the puppies adopted two of them, and the other two were fostered & then adopted through Sherry’s CHS Adoptions.

A few months later, the woman noticed the mother dog laying in her neighbor’s yard. She tried to catch her, but couldn’t, but eventually lured the dog into her garage with treats and shut the garage door. The dog was terrified of people and was very, very pregnant. She contacted Sherry to get the dog into rescue, and Sherry got in touch with the family that fostered her previous litter. When the family arrived to transport the mother dog, she was terrified of people and could barely be coaxed into the crate. She was covered in fleas and ticks and very malnourished.

Within three days of arriving at her foster home, Lady had her litter of seven puppies. She was an excellent mother and took such great care of her babies. In that amount of time, she also warmed up to her foster family and she turned into the smiliest, most affectionate and loving dog. It’s almost like she was making up for lost time after being out on her own for so long. After her pups got adopted, her foster family knew that Lady belonged with their family & her foster home became her forever home.

This story is a great example of all the moving parts required for successful rescues. Help from the community, and coordination with the rescue to transport & foster the animals, and get them veterinary care and eventually get them adopted. The woman who found the dog initially was persistent in her attempts to capture the dog, and Sherry’s CHS Adoptions stepped in to help just in time.

George, 2021

George came into CHS’s care as a stray with one of the worst cases of mange they had ever seen. He was just about hairless, and when he shook you could see flakes of skin flying off of him. He was covered in scabs that would reopen and bleed when he tried to ease the itching. He waited many months to be adopted while he was recovering. George will soon be celebrating his first adoption anniversary with his forever family!

June, 2020

June was part of a litter of seven puppies who were found in a dithc at about two weeks old. This ditch was harboring water and some of the puppies had drowned. Some were attempting to climb up out of the ditch, and some had fought their way out. Being so young, some of the puppies developed rickets and were blind. Only three of the seven made it to adoption, including June. This year June will celebrate two years in his home!

Sadie, 2019

She has gotten over just about all of her aggression issues. Yesterday she went to the dog park for the first time! She did great! Everyone loved her and she played the most with this beautiful purebread hunting dog. She is making friends and has completed her very first overnight hiking trip.

Cable, 2018

“We met Sherry through our neighborhood website. We started off fostering three American bulldog pups, and of course we absolutely fell in love with this beautiful blue eyed boy we named Cable! We had to keep him as part of our family!

We have continued to try to help Sherry and her team by fostering. We have welcomed two more American bulldogs and now we are pup-sitting a tiny white Jack Russell mix who will go back to her adopted family very soon!”

Ruger, 2017

Ruger, formerly known as “Mocha,” was pulled from a kill-shelter. Our team knew this sweet pup had potential and deserved to live!

He is now in training to be a service dog.

Gully, 2016

Gully was found in a ditch, cold and alone. When we rescued him, he was sweet-as-can-be even though he had clearly not had a great start at life.

Today, Gully is loving his forever home and spends his days playing and cuddling!