Scheduled Adoption Events

Piper (fka Pearl) was adopted in August 2025 and joined a loving family who has adopted 2 other dogs from ARWOB.  We love repeat adopters!  Her adoptive mom provided a wonderful "pupdate" about Piper and Madra.  Madra (fka Petyr) was adopted from ARWOB in August 2013 and is still going strong.  Here is what their adoptive mom had to say:

"Piper (FKA Pearl) came to me as a very shy, sweet girl. I had lost one of my dogs, Josie, to cancer five months before. Both she and my other dog, Madra, are ARWOB alums so when I was ready, I reached out to see if one of the dogs I saw on the website was suitable for me, Madra, and my orange cat, George. Everything ARWOB told me about her made me think she would be a wonderful dog. At first, I fostered her just to see how she would do with Madra and George. Madra wasn’t quite sure what to do with her since he was 12 1/2 and had recently lost his “sibling” of 11 years.

Piper was very shy and nervous when I first got her. When we went on walks in the park, she was suspicious of anyone walking behind us and kept looking back. She was curious about humans and friendly with other dogs, but she did not like when the humans tried to pet her and would back away. Such is the life of a stray. We started doing walks together in my local park, which also has a dog park. At first, we walked on the path outside of the dog park because I wanted to get a feel for whether the dogs in the park were friendly, especially since Piper was shy, and Madra was on the older side. Eventually, though, we saw that it was a park where people paid attention to their dogs while they chatted and quickly broke up any dogs that were getting overly excited. After about a month, I took her in there. At first Piper was pretty shut down, but as she got to know people and dogs she started to open up. I was also doing some training with her which gave her more confidence and as she started to open up her mischievous side came out. She has learned to open the patio slider, and even though she is growing out of her puppyhood at 2+ years old, she still likes a slipper or two! She loves to give kisses, which makes it a little bit hard to put a leash on her while she is kissing you. She has quite the gymnastic tendencies as well. Considering she is a 40 pound pitbull mix, she likes to jump up on things like a cat would and sometimes I have to put stuff on the chairs to keep her from doing that.

Madra now adores her while my orange cat, George, says “meh,” but that’s to be expected. I think she would give him kisses if he would let her, but he says no way! Madra, George and I were all missing our lovely Josie, but Piper has brought such joy to all of us. It’s been very healing. She is now been called the Belle of the Dog Park and I’m so excited to see more and more of her personality coming out. She sure is living up to her original name of Pearl!