13 Years of Love, and Still Going My parents wanted to get my brother and I a dog for Christmas, but there was one problem: my mom wanted a purebred and my dad wanted a shelter dog. We met some purebreds and none were the right fit, so my parents took us to TAF. We […]

The Dog Who Walked In Like He Belonged nike and i are incredibly important and special to eachother, we could not have found eachother at a better time! my parents came across one of nike’s urgent posts on facebook; the day i brought nike home, he had two days left on the red list and […]

A Tiny Fighter with a Mighty Heart Baymax came into our lives at exactly the right moment- a tiny, bottle-fed foster kitten who was failing to thrive, arriving just weeks after we said goodbye to our beloved 17-year-old cat, Awesomo. He needed us, and honestly, we needed him too. From the start, Baymax was a […]

I Yam an All-Star On February 7 of this year, I went into the animal foundation wanting to adopt with an animal in mind. While I was waiting for my meet and greet, I walked through the kennels and that’s when I saw this dog that they called puppy 2. This little guy could barely […]

18 Years Later, Right on Time Murdoch is truly something special to me. Sadly, just a few months prior to seeing Murdoch on Instagram I had lost Patch, my very first dog. Patch had died at the age of 18 in my arms. I was broken, lost and completely shattered. One day, unexpectedly I seen […]

The Perfect Match for Peaches I signed up to foster with The Animal Foundation in 2023, and after helping four animals and one very intentional foster “fail” I knew it was time to find the perfect sibling for my cat Peaches. Then one day, while scrolling through the foster listings during the holidays, I saw […]

The Dog I Almost Walked Away From When I first saw Velvet at the shelter, she barked at me from inside her kennel, and for a moment I almost walked away. But since it was almost my turn to meet her, I decided to wait for our 15 minutes together — and that decision changed […]

From Broken to Brave I saw a black and white dog online that looked completely broken and defeated. In person, he wouldn’t raise his head and it took 40 minutes to coax him out of the kennel. Once out, he never left my side. If I took a step, he took a step. If I […]

Small Cat. Big Reason to Keep Going. My son (cat) Milo has changed my life in ways I didn’t expect. During a time when I was feeling really sad and dealing with depression, he became my comfort without even trying. He’s always there whether it’s sitting next to me quietly, curling up on my chest, […]

Tiny Bird. Massive Main Character Energy. Birdie’s adoption wasn’t planned. I just saw his pitiful photo on the Animal Foundation’s website and that was that. What he lacks in elegance, he’s made up for in personalit. A LOT of personality. He struts like a tiny, feathered CEO inspecting his company, chest puffed out with unjustified […]