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At Mighty
Mutts We Specialize in Happy Endings!!
This page is dedicated to giving
you a few examples.
~ Exciting Rescues!!!! ~
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That's my name, Chance! It's kind's ironic, 'cuz if it wasn't for Mighty Mutts, I wouldn't have had one! I was living in a crack-house in Manhattan with my friend Emma and it was a tough time. We woudl literally have to fight over anything that looked like food that fell on the floor since we weren't being fed! Emma was rescued first after a neighbor alerted Mighty Mutts. They only found out I was there later and, as you can see, they got me just in the nick of time! I was emaciated and cut up, barely able to walk. Now I'm on the mend and looking forward to a great new home! |
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I'm a real little dog who was in a real big mess! I was wandering around on my own in Astoria, Queens, with open wounds on my neck that needed over 30 stiches to close! I was also dehrdrated and underweight and would have been a gonner if not for a lovely woman who not only took me in, but also paid my vet bills! She couldn't keep me though, so Mighty Mutts stepped up! Now I'm just waiting for my chance. I'm a 3 year old terrier mix and I only weigh about 25 lbs., but I got a real big personallity and an even bigger heart! |
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name is Cinder
I owe my life to the brave Mighty Mutts volunteers! I was a "junk yard dog" since I was a puppy! For two years I was left tied to a stake, with only a cinder block house for a shelter. I ate whatever I could scavenge and drank stale rainwater from a tire! That's when Mighty Mutts came into my life! They slowly gained my trust by feeding me and petting me everyday while they were also feeding stray cats on the "route." Then, when they gained my trust, they rescued me in a most exciting fashion!!! |
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I was found in April of 1998 outside of a Post Office in Harlem. Two Good Samaritans found me and inquired around the neighborhood . What they found out was truly appalling! I had been left behind in an abandoned basement for months, with nothing to eat but vermin and nothing to drink but water from a leaky boiler. They knew what to do and brought me to Mighty Mutts! At the time, I was only 27 pounds and in need of extensive medical care. Needless to say, I also had severe issues of trust. Other shelters would have given up on me, but Mighty Mutts had "Hope"! They worked hard for over a year to heal me, both inside and outside. The volunteer who worked the hardest with me eventually fell in love and adopted me. Now I'm living the good life in Florida, doing nothing all day but playing in the surf. I'm proof that, as long as there’s Mighty Mutts, there’s always Hope! |
When I was found, 4/98 |
Today: Catchin' some rays with mom! |
12/17/99 It looked like Paradise Lost when I was found! |
Mommy and me!
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I was found wandering the streets of Manhattan in the Fall of 2007. I had really bad burns on my back caused by somebody who thought it would be fun to pour something all over my back! I was only a pup of 6 months and was in a really bad way. Even though I had never know kindness, I still trusted people and was smart enough to let Mighty Mutts rescue me. Like they always do, they took me in and healed my wounds. Luckily, my ordeal only left me with physical scars! I'm still a happy, friendly and plyaful pup who is going to make a wonderful companion for someone. Hopefully that day will come real soon! |
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Did you notice that your holiday packages were a little late back in 1999? That was because Santa wasn't hittin' on all cylinders! He was missing the services of Rudolph, Comet, Dasher and Blitzen, the sweetest rein-dears that anyone ever met! John found the quartet alone in an alley on Christmas eve, and it didn't look like they were going to be opening any presents the next morning. Fortunately, with prompt medical attention and a lot of TLC, the foursome slowly recovered. After a long wait, Rudy, the last of the group, found a new home in March of 2002! |
Found starving and alone for the holidays. |
On the road to recovery. |
Dasher, the first to go home in June of 2001,.... |
...then came Blitzen in October,... |
Comet in January, 2002,.... |
..and, last but not least, Rudolph in March! |
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Nikita |
Duke |
Schultz |
Bobbie |
George |
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Now they have all of the time in the world! |
Nikita Adopted 6/10/00 |
Thank
You
Mighty Mutts! |
Diesel Adopted 6/17/00 |
Bobbie Adopted 11/00 |
George
Adopted ? |
Duke Adopted 7/00 |
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Hi, I'm Roberta and
I've put up with a lot of Flack in my life! When I was just a young lass,
I fell in with the wrong crowd and found myself alone and caring for six
puppies! Then John came along and helped me get on track! I
made sure that all six of my kids were doing well and making their own
way in the world before I moved on. Now I'm in a new home,
where I'll never be cold or hungry (or pregnant!) again!
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A mother's work is never done! |
Roberta: Adopted 2/23/02 |
But they leave the nest too soon!
Leo
(6/24/00)
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Oscar (4/25/00), I was the blue eyed charmer, now I'm livin' with a real Honey! |
Delphi (6/17/00) |
Willie (7/2/00) |
Tigerlilly (11/25/00) |
(7/2/00) |
| Homer's
Odyssey
I sing of dogs and a rescue! I sing of those who first came from Mightry Mutts to the streets of East New York to my aid! My name is Homer and I was found on Troy Avenue in Brooklyn. I was caught between the Scylla of hunger and the Charybdis of homelessness when my own Heroes came to my rescue! Now I am content to sit around philosophizing because my own Penelope and Hector took me home, happily ending my Odyssey! |
4/28/98 My old home, (There’s Scylla and Charibdus in the background!) |
Later that day, At sea and safe in the good ship Argo |
Today, with my Heroine! |
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Mu name's Sunday and I was not happy with my lot in life. As a matter of fact, my lot in life was a parking lot! I was living in a bus depot with another dog, Sidney, and we were purposely kept hungry because the boss hoped that, if we were starving, we would become mean watch-dogs (some hope!). Every night, Mighty Mutts would try to feed us by tossing a bag of food over a ten foot barbed wire fence. We were happy when we got it, but most nights the night watchman found it first and threw it out! I had my own ways though, and found a secret hole in the fence, which I would wiggle through and look for scraps of garbage. One night, after three years, John finally found me on the other side of the fence. I was very frightened, because a glass strewn lot was all that I ever knew and the watchman NEVER let me meet anybody else! Well, I'm not afraid anymore, because, when John swept me into his arms, he introduced me to a life that I could have never even dreamed about. I’m happy and healthy now, and I hope that someday Sidney will be as lucky as I am! |
When I was found: frightened and unsure. |
Where I was found: Ralph Kramden wouldn't recognize the place! |
Today: My Mommy loves me on a Sunday and every other day too! |
When I was found, 4/98 |
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Happy and content with my friend Spike, most importantly, I got to grow old! |
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I’m just the sweetest little thing that you will ever see! I came to Mighty Mutts through the efforts of a lovely lady who cared enough to help me! I was the “pampered pet” of a neighbor of this lady. I was left outside 24 hrs. a day, rain or shine, and was allowed to eat scraps and drink rain water! When my friend complained to my former owners, they said that they would take care of it and boy did they ever! They then locked me in the basement until I got sick and, not wanting to care for me, they threw me out into the street. My friend found me 2 weeks later, nursed me back to health, and came to Mighty Mutts to find me a new, loving home. Woun’t you be the one to adopt me? |
When I was found 6/97 |
Three months later |
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My Name is Lucky!
Hello! My name is Lucky and I sure am! Those of you who are frequent visitors to ths site have been looking at my before picture for three months! You might well say to yourself "What an aweful sight on that site!" But you are now being rewarded by seeing Mighty Mutts' first cyber-puppy recovery! Just be aware that, for all of this technological wizardry, my recovery was accomplished by good old fashioned love, patience, and hard work, just like all of the other Mighty Mutts before me. John found me at seven months old in Coney Isalnd in the condition you see. I had the mange and was starving at a mere 23 lbs! I would have died if it wasn't for Mighty Mutts! I'm now fully recovered and weigh a healthy 40 lbs. Won't you please adopt me or one of my friends so that John can help others like me? If you can't adopt, please look into sponsoring one of us or seeing how else you can help! |
Before, 12/97 |
Today |
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do you do? My name is Alice!
I was only eight months old when Mighty Mutts found me in December but I had already had a terrible life! Somebody had tied a rubber band so tightly around my tail that I almost lost it! On top of this I had a broken leg! Tail, leg, and dog are all doing well thanks to a lot of TLC from a loving Mighty Mutts volunteer. Now I've been adopted by a wonderful lady who has as much energy as I do! But there are still many of my friends who need homes! So please help support the Mighty Mutts and do what you can to see that stories like mine never happen again! |
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| Here I am soon after I was found,with a cast and a shaved tail! | Here is a close-up of the famous tail | With my new mommy, or, a happy ending to the tail! |
| Hello
everyone, I'm Josie!
I am one of the fortunate orphans that
Mighty Mutts found and cared for. I know I'm smiling a lot, but I have
good reason for it! At only 10 months, I was truly hopeless...I was suffering
from mange, malnutrition, and exposure. Mighty Mutts cared when no one
else cared. Now, I'm doing a lot of tail wagging since all the mange is
gone!!!
That's why I now have three mommies! Thank you Mighty Mutts for giving me a second chance! |
This is me when Mighty Mutts first found me... (1 wk after rescue - March 24, 1997) |
After 2 Months of TLC !(May 29, 1997) |
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| Hi,
I'm Moe
I was happily yucking it up on the streets with the other two Stooges, Larry and Curly. Suddenly our lives took a very serious turn when a group of local "youths" from the south Brooklyn area decided to play some games of their own with us. These "children" took pleasure in watching other beings suffer!!! They bludgeoned Larry and Curly with pipes and bats until they were almost unconscious. Then they stabbed and slashed me leaving me for dead! That's when John from Mighty Mutts came into our lives! He picked me up and put me in his car. Larry and Curley followed me right in because they were worried about me also!!. Our position was so desperate that even New York Newsday(6/28/95) ran a story on us!! As sad as our story was, there was a very happy ending!!! We were adopted!!! There are many more like us still up for adoption and still living with John. You can click here if you want to find out more about the rest of the 'Mutts'. If you can not take one of us home with you please help any way that you can!! And above all please help to teach the value of life to others so that what happened to me will never happen again!!! |
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| Moe after his terrible ordeal |
and in his loving home! |
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name is Lughead
My life was very difficult while I was on the street. Like many strays, I was used to abuse and sickness. As you can see, I was not a pretty sight when Mighty Mutts found me! I was mangy and was being beaten away with a lugwrench when John found me. But he was smart enough and caring enough to see the beauty that was within me!!! It was a long hard struggle, but I soon became better. Thanks to Mighty Mutts strict screening process, I even found a home with people who care as much as John does! But there are still many other like me, so please come to Union Square in Manhattan on Saturdays and take one of my friends home. If you can not adopt an animal please click here to see how you can help. |
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(Actually Arlington; but that don’t rhyme!) My name is Ralph and I do declare! The day that I was found by Mighty Mutts was the luickiest day of my life! I was a mere snip of a 6 month old pup when I was found (3/98) in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. I was “living" in an abandoned building and eating scraps from the table. Then I was rescued and it was all up-hill from there. A lovely belle named Laura fell in love with me and now I’m sippin’ mint jullips on the veranda with her, Rod, and my new best friend Riggins! |
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I'm Johnny
Excuse me for mixing metaphors, but my life is a classic example of falling out of the frying pan, into the fire, and landing on my feet! You see, I was bred by an irresponsable breeder who ran a puppy mill!! Life was so cramped at the “factory” that our cages were stacked one on top of the other. My poor little paw fell through the bars in the cage and my downstairs neighbor mangled my leg!! That’s bad!!! But then Mighty Mutts rescued me, stood by me (any other shelter would have put me to sleep), and, best of all, found me a wonderful new mommy named Pam! She put alot of time, effort and money into my recovery, but, unfortunately, the doctors said that my leg couldn't be saved, even after months of physical therapy. But my mommy loves me more than ever and wouldn’t have me any other way! So you see, I always land on my feet, even though I only have three of them!!! |
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My name is William, and I’m very glad to meet you. As a matter of fact, after what I’ve been through, I’m very glad to meet anyone!! Mighty Mutts volunteers first found me in June of 1996 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. I was new to the streets at that time and had taken up with a “bad crowd” of other street dogs. The Mighty Mutts volunteers fed us everyday as they waited for room to open up for us in the kennel. Like I said though, I was new to the streets and my new friends took all of my food. By August I was on my last legs. I could no longer even get up to get my food!! At that point, the Mighty Mutts volunteers picked me up and brought me to the vet. I was mangy, flea infested and weighed only 42 lbs!! The doctor said I would have had only a couple of days left!!! One of the volunteers took me home and within two months I turned into the sleek handsome devil you see below! I eventually decided to stay with the volunteer who rescued me (he has a REALLY PRETTY Shepherd mix named Daisy who I fell in love with!!!) Now I live with my owner, Daisy, and Lucy, who was another Mighty Mutt, and were one big happy family. |
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Richie |
Buddy |
Family Affairs!
| Hi, I'm Boggie (formerly Big Boy) and I'm the very proud daddy of Good Boy and Jolly (don't mind the make-up, you know kids today!) You see, I was a very street smart dog and led John around for two years before I let him catch me. I was having fun! But I'm also real smart and after I sowed my wild oats I knew it was time to settle down and get a job, so I moved in with John and helped him run the kennel for a while. | 
Big Boy (The Proud Papa!) |
Then a wonderful lady came along and adopted me! You see this is a family affair in more ways than one because she had adopted Lenny, one of the very first Mighty Mutts! Lenny has since passed on and both John and myself want to thank my new mommy for all of the love and firendship which she gave to him and is giving me now! |
Jolly I'm Jolly and I really am! Don't mind the picture, that was taken at Halloween. The brown fur is really a costume. Although I had a great dad, I wasn't always the life of the party. In fact I was painfully shy when Mighty Mutts found me. But they gave me lots of love and my mommy gives me lots more and now I'm the life of the party that you see here today! |
Almost a reunion! Goodboy (left) and Bigboy (right)
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Good Boy John may not sometimes score points on originality as far as names go but at least they always fit! My dad is 85 lbs., my brother is happy go lucky and I'm..., well you get the picture (even though, as you can see, I'm still big enough to cause mischief!). My brother's the party animal, literally, and I'm the star pupil. I was always the best kid in the kennel and my parents are sproud of me they even gave me my own web page! |
Bonnie, hangin' with a new crowd |
Clyde (left) with his new moll Eve (also a Mighty Mutt!) |
| Brooklyn
Dogs Movin' on Up!
Tony (now Nissa) and Vinny were found in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in December. Like any Boyz from the 'hood, we were hangin' on the corner when Mighty Mutts rescued us. We was unlicensed, unvaccinated and very unbathed! We didn't know any better but Mighty Mutts did and we sure learnt quick. Now we've both moved on uptown. Tony on the upper west side of Manhattan and Vinny on the upper east side. Real Ritzy! Now we're dapper, pampered, and even loining to talk good English! |
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Top: Just after we wuz rescued, cruisin’ and lookin’ for homes Left: Nissa (formerly Tony) and family in for a visit. Right: Vinny and his new mommy and new best friend, Baby, (sorry Tony, you know how it is, you find a girl and don’t hang out with the old gang any more. |
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Did you know?
We (dogs,
cats & volunteers!) meet every Saturday in New York City's,
Union
Square! Come visit us!!!
(corner of 14th St. & University Pl.)
