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Penny Penny’s Story

Home For Good Dog Rescue Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
We lost our dog, who we had for 13 years, in
March of 2018. Our house was not the same
without a dog. So, we started a search to adopt
another dog and came upon the website for
Home for Good Dog Rescue.
This remarkable rescue pulls dogs from high-kill
shelters in the South and cares for them at their
property in Aiken, South Carolina. They then
transport them to New Jersey, nurture them
in foster families, and finally adopt them into
loving homes.
Looking at their website, a dog name Penelope,
a 3-year-old lab/blue heeler mix, caught our eye.
Perhaps it was because she had one beautiful
blue eye and one deep brown eye.
Penelope, or Penny, had been picked up as
a stray, placed in a high kill shelter in South
Carolina, then pulled, restored to health, and
transported to New Jersey. The journey was a bit
stressful for Penny. By the time she arrived in NJ,
she had broken a tooth trying to get out of her
crate. We never put Penny in a crate again.
When we first met Penny, her foster mom
brought her in, and she immediately licked my
face. I needed that! I had just gotten over breast
cancer, and she warmed my heart. I knew she
was meant to be our dog.
We have had Penny for six years now and she
has been a blessing to my husband and me. She
loves people, loves taking a walk, and loved our
cat that passed away last year.
My daughter Theresa wrote, “Penny is the light
of my mother’s life, and that makes me so happy.
She’s the sweetest, happiest, friendly girl, who
has been spoiled since the day she went home,
and it’s exactly how she deserves to be treated.”
The look in her photo is what we see whenever
we come in the kitchen door. It is a look that
says, “I love you so much. I’m glad I’m in your
home forever.”

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