Grantee Stories

Young at Heart's Unconditional Love for Senior Pets by Jane Sobel Klonsky

November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month, an opportunity to celebrate the joy that adopting an older dog can bring. No one knows that joy more than the volunteers, fosters, and adopters of Young at Heart Senior Pet Adoptions, a Grey Muzzle grantee devoted to rescuing and rehoming older animals. Since 2005, they have been...

Maddie: A Muttville Happy Ending by Laura T. Coffey and Lori Fusaro 

A Shih Tzu named Maddie is one of the senior dogs featured in the new book My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts by Laura T. Coffey and Lori Fusaro (photographer). Maddie was rescued and then adopted to a wonderful home by Muttville Senior Dog Rescue . Located in San Francisco's Rescue Row...

The Joy of a Real Home: Creating a Senior Dog Sanctuary for Old Goldens by Robin Adams

Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue (DVGRR), founded in 1993, is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit caring for homeless Golden Retrievers in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. A grant from The Grey Muzzle Organization help s fund medical care to get DVGRR's senior dogs ready for adoption. Located in in Reinholds, PA, the heart of one of the country's...

Fairy Tail Endings, Inc.Helping Pets and Their Families Stay Together by Rhys Miller

Fairy Tail Endings, Inc. is dedicated to helping financially struggling families in Florida's Sarasota & Manatee counties keep their pets and provide proper care through financial aid, product and service donations, education and outreach. A grant from Grey Muzzle helps support their 'Road to Recovery Project' by funding the cost of veterinary care for senior...