Success Stories

It’s A Wild World For The Kitten Formerly Known As Miles

Our little grey kitten Miles, now known as “Cat Stevens” wants to sing out about how happy he is in his new home, with his feline moonshadow, Mr Wiggles. From Yusuf Islam’s adopter: We love our kitten!!! He has worked out so perfectly. Our other cat Mr. Wiggles absolutely adores him and they play together non-stop:) so thank you again for allowing us to adopt him. We love hearing about our animals in their new homes, please contact us at info@muchlove.org with your Much Love Success...

Layla Shows The World How Loving "Pit Bulls" Can Be

LA Shelters are filled with dogs who are labeled with the slang term “pit bull”. What we call a “pit bull” is usually a mix of the American Staffordshire Terrier and another breed. Up until about 30 years ago, these dogs were known as cuddly, loyal, and friendly family dogs. In fact, Petey from the iconic “Little Rascals” television show was a Staffy, and there are hundreds of examples from the past and present of these dogs exhibiting loving and friendly behaviors that are as much a part of the breed as...

Peppy Piper: Senior Dog Adoption Success Story!

The beautiful Bertha came to us a tad dirty and matted, but her adoptive family saw through that and knew that they had found a very special dog. Bertha is about 10 years old and as you can see, she has plenty of pep in her step! From Bertha’s New Family: Bertha now known as Piper is doing very well in her new home in Pasadena. Attached are some photos of Piper in her new home and enjoying life in Pasadena with me and Shanta. We regularly take her to the dog park to play with other pooches and for walks around the Rose Bowl. She...

Bodega, Now Bohdi, Enlightens Everyone He Meets!

A note from Bodega now Bohdi’s new family: “Just wanted you to know how well Bohdi is doing - He is a happy dog and goes with me everywhere possible - He starts the day every morning with our 3 mile walk thru Beverly Hills - He is great in the car and seems to like everybody - So far – he is fabulous! ” -Andrew K. We love getting stories like this! If you’ve adopted a Much Love dog or cat please write to us at info@muchlove.org and let us know how you’re expanded family is...

From Scruffy Killian to Much Love-d Wally

We loooove sharing a good Success Story! Here is one from Killian’s, aka Wally’s new parents: I just wanted to share with you some photos of Wally (Killian)! He has such an adorable personality now and he’s gradually becoming more social. He is now friends with my neighbor’s dog as of this weekend. Like no barking, no shaking, no growling just “hey, what’s up” with this other dog. Here is the family photo Kevin and I took with him as well as with Rachel, his foster parent when we only had him...

The Grey Poupon of Pooches…MUSTARD!

We thought ML mutt MUSTARD was the Grey Poupon of pooches! So do his newly married mom and dad! Great update from his happy home… We adopted Mustard on 1/23/2010, but renamed him Ryno…. My husband would tell you that he bought him for me as an Xmas Present to put off buying me a wedding ring, it backfired on him as Ryno only brought us all that much closer and expedited the marriage proposal. Ryno was “my” dog upon adoption, lived with me and remains my #1 baby! My husband Bob quickly moved in and we became a...

5 Questions for a Foster: Featuring GLee!

Foster and Much Love volunteer extraordinaire Gina Lee sat down with us to discuss the joys or fostering an animal. Read on and if you are inspired, please fill out a foster application yourself! Why did you start fostering for MLAR? I’m going to start my answer with a short story: When I was about 10 years old, I was taking a walk in my neighborhood (OC ‘burbs) and came across a Maltese that looked pretty haggard but had clearly belonged to someone and got lost. The dog was super friendly, and while I played with him/her for...

FRANK THE TANK Rolls Into His Forever Home

We got Frank The Tank just a little over a month ago and he’s already part of the family. He and Mickey have become best buds! Frank can be a little skeptical of things and people at first so it’s great to see him follow Mickeys lead and take cues from him. We’ve been working on getting him more comfortable with meeting people and keeping him social. He loves his trips to the dog parks where he can run around with other dogs. He loves playing with toys at home and catching them mid air. David is starting use a frisbee with...

ROOTBEER – showing her town Pitbulls are great!

Here’s a picture of Ruby and I. She’s the local favorite in our neighborhood (Rose Ave, btwn 5th & 6th) and everyone loves seeing her because when she sees someone she knows (or someone new, for that matter), her entire body wags she’s so happy. It’s a shame dogs like her get such a bad rap (pit mix) because she simply could not be a friendlier, more loving dog. And that’s true of all the pits we’ve met in the area – they, like all of us, just want to be loved. When we adopted Ruby her name given...

Tiny WINNIE has a big heart!

This is all about Winnie, and that’s appropriate because in our house life is a pretty much all about Winnie – at least SHE thinks so. We brought her home from “Much Love” on Oct. 30, 2010. I was afraid of getting a Chihuahua that barked all the time, and she won my heart because she was so quiet and friendly - in spite of the fact that she had this funny overbite (an understatement) and looked like she was part meerkat. They judged her to be 2 years old, but she was a puppy at heart. She made...