My name is Fred!

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.