Charitable Holiday Season Brings A New Chance for Sammy

Fetch! Pet Care franchisee, Regina Cheung, was recently involved in an amazing pet rescue story about a Yorkie named Sammy.  Her “Rescue That Rescued Me” story is an inspirational story about a search for a new pet parent willing to adopt an elderly dog that outlived its parents.

Sammy, a 10-year old blind Yorkie, has known his entire life with his mom and dad.  But then last year Sammy’s dad passed away and he went to live with his mom in an assisted living facility.  Sammy was everything to his mom especially after his dad passed away.  But in the nursing home facility, Sammy had to wear a muzzle because he had bitten other people while there.  Then some time later, tragedy struck again and Beverly passed away from surgery complications leaving Sammy with few options for a new home.  During Sammy’s stay at the assisted living facility, Fetch! Pet Care dog sitter, Nancy, would come and walk Sammy twice a day so when Beverly passed, Nancy took in Sammy as a dog of her own for the time being.  Sammy had to learn how to live with Nancy’s other two dogs and they quickly became best friends, but Nancy couldn’t keep Sammy forever so left without other options, Rick, Beverly’s son, had little choice but consider putting Sammy up for adoption at the shelter. 

Regina Cheung, owner of Fetch! Pet Care in Southern California, asked Nancy to care for Sammy for one more week.  Knowing that Sammy would be hard to adopt because of his age and condition, Regina made it her mission to find Sammy a new home.  She took videos and pictures of his sweet face to post on all the rescue websites as well as sent out an email blast to local rescuers.  One of the local rescuers posted a Facebook message about it and pet rescuer, Pat Chambers, all the way in Louisiana responded to that message that day saying that she and her husband had 6 small dogs and cats and a big house with a yard.  She also had experience with elderly dogs and was interested in giving Sammy a new home.  Sammy took a red eye flight with an animal transport service Regina found to Louisiana and he arrived to his new home with Pat, a part-time social worker, and her retired husband, just before Thanksgiving this year.


Regina rescued Sammy when he was most in need of a new home. This a great story that we at Fetch! wanted to share with our fans. Stories like this need to be brought to light and shared with everyone. They are so heart-felt and bring a smile to everyone's face. If you have a "Rescue Who Rescued Me" story you would like to share, enter it into our nation-wide search. We, along with our partners, Bark Magazine, Halo Purely for Pets, and FreeKibble.com, are on a search to find the best pet rescue. They winner with the best story, picture or video will be able to choose the shelter of their choice for FreeKibble to donate 10,000 free meals. Submissions end December 18th and voting starts December 19th.