When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: December 20, 2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Johnny Cash
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Cash
How is your adopted pet doing? Cash is doing great! He fits in so well with our family and we all just love him.

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: November 2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Foxy
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Twyla
How is your adopted pet doing? Twyla has been great! She has fit right into the family and loves her dog brother. She’s been having a great time in the fenced in yard and is a big lover. Couldn’t be going better

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: 7/2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Carl
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Rocky
How is your adopted pet doing? Rocky is adjusting to his new home quite well. He and Barney have become quite attached to one another and normally when you see one the other one is close by.

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: November 2021
Pet’s AARF Name: LeighLee
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Lee Lee
How is your adopted pet doing? Lee Lee has adapted well in her new home. She has added so much love and joy to our family. Our other Calico, Callie, wasn’t so accepting initially. It took time and Lee Lee’s relentless spirit to win Callie over. We could not imagine life without her. You could not ask for a more loving fur baby.

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: November, 2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Ringo
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Ringo
How is your adopted pet doing? When we first brought Ringo home, he was a bit timid of everyone, especially the first kids he had ever encountered.

He has warmed up so completely that he is basically an oversized lap dog in addition to be co-hiker and adventurer.

He’s a daily joy and we think he is very happy to be part of a large family, too!

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: 11/6/2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Piper
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Piper
How is your adopted pet doing? Piper is such a happy girl. She has moved in and made her place in this family. Oh yes this was a rescue, Piper rescued Katie and myself from “Broken-Heart” syndrome. It had been a year since we lost our “Rosie” who was our previous AARF adopted girl…Piper has not replaced Rosie, but she has come with her new personality and she talks and has her own way of telling us she has found her forever family and she is happy to be part of the gang !!

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: Nov. 13, 2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Merida and Thursday
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Jasmine and Lemon
How is your adopted pet doing? Our girls are doing great!!! They are best friends with each other and love our other kitties and dogs as well. Jasmine is all about the cuddles; if you’re sitting down she knows and will come find you! Lemon is a pistol and loves to be into everything especially if food is involved LOL our 3yr old boy loves these 2 and you can usually find the 3 of them playing. We are very happy to have these special babies in our lives!

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: October 2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Esther
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Esther
How is your adopted pet doing? Esther is a wonderful addition to the family. She loves everyone she meets and requires belly rubs. She is really enjoying her walks and play time!

When did you adopt your pet from AARF?: September 25, 2021
Pet’s AARF Name: Everest
Pet’s New Name (if you changed it): Norris
How is your adopted pet doing? My husband and I fell in love with Norris when we attended the Dogaplouza at Cane Creek Park this past September. His happy smiling face, big golden eyes, and sweet temperament won us over completely. A wonderful friendship with his AARF foster parents were a wonderful bonus too! He was treated so terribly by whoever had him before. It is thanks to his foster parents that he was brought back from complete starvation.
When Norris first came home with us, he was terrified of vehicles, he loved belly rubs but really didn’t like to be cuddled, and he really did not know how to play. We would give him a toy to try to play with him, and he would just cower. After having him for about a month we decided to send him to the In-Board Training Program at Thunderhawk Canine training Academy to work on his confidence, skills, and abilities. Christie and her team at Thunderhawk helped build Norris’s confidence tremendously and helped him overcome some fears he had. He still doesn’t care for car rides, but now we can go “bye-bye” without total meltdowns and has learned that new things are not to be completely avoided.
Norris’s personality has changed dramatically since we adopted him. He is such a playful and cuddly guy. His favorite thing to do is put his big 45-pound self on top of and in between my husband and I as we watch tv and demand snuggles and pets. He loves fetch, crinkly toys, treats, sniffing out moles, 8am and 11pm zoomies, playmates at the dog park, and his obsessive parents. He greets us with full affection whenever we are out of eyesight for more than 5 minutes. He has become such a wonderful part of our family. Norris’s story is the old saying come to life, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” He is ours now and he is unbelievably treasured.