Sandi (mixed breed dog) came from the Humane Society. We picked her up there the same day she was brought in. She was about 10 months old at the time. She's almost 11 years old now.

Oreo was an "accident" between a co-workers two dogs: a pure-bred male Beagle and a pure-bred female Chocoalte Lab. So we call him our "Chocolate Beagle". We brought him home when he was 6 weeks old, and he's almost 8 years old now.

Angel was an orphaned farm cat that we got from another of my co-workers. She had been born on my co-worker's parents farm, and orphaned at 6 weeks when a coyote or something got the mother. We brought her home when she was 8 weeks old, but she was the size of a 2-week old kitten. For more on her story, go to the Cat General section and look on the thread that starts out as "Angel's story.."