No Dog Left Behind: 786 dogs saved from nearly certain death
Cathy Rubin and Rover Rescue have saved 786 dogs from nearly certain death. Her mission is to find a home for every dog. There are rooms in animal shelters where the dogs that are too injured, sick or unsightly are caged. While most shelter dogs have some chance that someone might come and take them home, these dogs have almost no such hope. They have been deemed officially “unadoptable.” Nobody will see them, and within days they will be euthanized. Vinnie was one such dog. He was a seven pound, year-old Chihuahua and Terrier mix who’d been hit by a car and brought to the Los Angeles County animal shelter in Carson. He had a broken pelvis, a shattered knee, and a day or two left when he received a rare visitor. Cathy Rubin is one of the few people who visit these abject rooms. She is the founder and driving force behind Rover Rescue, a non-profit organization based in her Redondo Beach home whose stated mission is to “make sure every dog has a home.” A hundred such organizations exist in the Los Angeles area, but Rover Rescue is extremely unusual in that it makes a regular practice of saving the unadoptable. When Rubin walked over to Vinnie’s cage, the broken little dog did…
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