Our final fling for this year’s Downtown Farmer’s Market

Today started out chilly (so in many of the pics you’ll see cute sweaters and jackets on the dogs), but the sun was shining and the crowd was happy so we had a great time at this last adoption event for the 2009 Downtown Farmer’s Market.
We didn’t have any adoptions today – but the doggies [...]

Miss Cordelia’s Welcomes Real Good Dog Rescue to Harbor Town – Thank you!!!

Real Good Dog Rescue sometimes has the opportunity to showcase our great dogs and puppies at various events in Memphis and Shelby County. Yesterday we were fortunate to be invited to Miss Cordelia’s in Harbor Town. Miss Cordelia’s has a reputation for friendliness and having high standards in all they do – so they were [...]

Blue needs a new home – can you help?

Kathryn Cooley is trying to find a home for a great dog. Here’s Blue’s story:
My prior roommate left her dog at our house when moving out and I would like to find a good home for him.  He is a 1 year old Huskie mix with white fur, 1 blue and 1 green eye, medium [...]

Lovely and loving Lindsey is looking for her FURever home

Lindsey is a lovely black and white Border Collie mix who has waited a VERY long time to find her forever home. She has lived in a shelter’s outdoor kennel for close to a year. The shelter kept saying she was adopted, when she was merely lost in the shuffle of numerous outside dogs.
This approximately [...]

Come join us at our FIRST adoption event of 2009!

Come ring in the New Year with Good Dog Rescue’s dogs, puppies, and volunteers at today’s (Saturday, January 3, 2009) adoption event from 1-4pm at the Hollywood Feed Store at 2013 Union Avenue, Memphis, TN. View Map It’s on the south side of Union, between the major intersections of Cooper and McLean. Very convenient for [...]

Our last adoption event of 2008 @ Hollywood Feed Cordova

We rang out the year a little early, given that New Year’s Eve is in the middle of the week and we don’t hold adoption events then! Our Saturday 12/27/08 adoption event at Hollywood Feed in Cordova was our final event of 2008.
Doesn’t seem possible that we’re changing years yet again!
It was a quiet event. [...]

Santa Came to Petco Sunday!

Adoptions right before the holidays are good for our Good Dogs that don’t have a forever home.  Santa came to Petco on our Sunday Adoption event on Poplar and Highland Store.  Several were out shopping for their dogs for Christmas and came by to see all our dogs….and some went home with a Good Dog.
Adopted [...]

Bernie is looking for love … and a home

Bernie is a fabulous Collie mix who ended up as a stray at the Memphis Animal Shelter, one of our area’s high kill shelters. The photographer told us that Bernie pressed himself up against the front of the cage as far and hard as he could, so that you couldn’t possibly miss him. We rescued [...]

Collin the Brittany Spaniel wants his new home

Collin is a lovely Brittany Spaniel who is full of energy and love – and looking for his forever home.
He’d make a GREAT running or walking partner. If you’ve got another high energy dog or puppy, he’d be great in helping tire that one out!
Check out Collin’s Glog!
Contact Lisa Trenthem @ ltrenthem@gmail.com if you could [...]

Urgent call for Adopters and Fosters

Help! Good Dog Rescue is suffering from an overabundance of dogs and a critical lack of foster homes. You can help in two ways.
First, if you’re wondering whether a new dog will fit well into your situation, consider fostering one of our great dogs or puppies. View our You can help by fostering blog post [...]