Fred

My story

Have you met Fred? His owner is dead. 😔 He was never well-socialized from what his owner’s relatives said. But was devoted to his master and slept in his bed. 🛏️ He was scared and defensive and at first meeting strangers filled him with dread. 😱 But he is very food motivated and warms up as soon as he’s fed. 🍱 🍦 🍗 Fred has long lumpy body that looks like a loaf of bread, 🍞 Amazing big ears and a comically disproportionately tiny head. He had not been to a vet in a decade and needed a dental and some meds, 💊 He is dangerously overweight from being overfed. But at least he was already neutered and never bred. He’s an 11 year old chiweenie- that’s doxie/chi mix and not a purebred. We were warned he might be more of a jerky little butthead, But he’s actually just a scared wimpy guy, and we are happy we were misled. He’s currently peacefully living with other small calm dogs, there’s been no bloodshed. We don’t normally write poetry, but a surprising number of things rhyme with Fred 🤷‍♀️ So we are hopeful our very bad literary work will help his story stick in your head. Email njwoof@cs.com to come to Northern NJ and meet our cute little redhead! Since COVID-19, we are no longer holding our Sunday adoption events until further notice, but we are scheduling meet and greet appointments with a specific dog or dogs at our meeting spots in Northern NJ. To streamline adoptions, all communication before, during, and after the adoption process is done through email only: we have limited volunteers able to return phone calls. Submit an application from our website www.secondchance.petfinder.com to speed up the adoption process and email any questions to us at njwoof@cs.com. Please check your email regularly for next steps. All our dogs reside in foster care in Northern NJ until adoption and we do not have a central shelter location. We are a small all-volunteer organization focused on rescuing local dogs from area shelters, as well as accepting some surrenders and puppy mill rescues.

If you have any questions or would like to adopt Fred, please reach out to the adoption group directly. PetSmart Charities does not facilitate the adoption process. Thank you.