With breaking hearts and our eyes flowing with tears we laid with our Ruger VGSR #4303, aka known as Our Gentle Giant and Big Boy, as he crossed over the Rainbow Bridge yesterday 9/21/2024 around 12:45 pm.

Ruger was our first foster and our first “foster fail”.   We knew the minute we picked him up from Sharon Knox in the Lake Wright parking lot that he was a very special boy and a big boy as well at 100lbs worth!  He hopped out of the car headed straight for us, tail wagging and excited to meet us even though he had never laid eyes on us. That is how our Ruger lived his life; he was an ambassador extraordinaire for our family.  Ruger never meet a stranger he greeted everyone who entered our home, be it adults, children, or animals with a gentle demeanor a wagging tail and an air of love and warmth.  Ruger was the epitome of perfection. He was beautiful physically, extremely smart, obedient, a loving loyal and dedicated companion to us and our family, who would have willingly given his life if need be to protect us.  Ruger turned 11 years old this past May.  We were truly blessed to have had this very Special Boy with us and to have been the recipients of his love and devotion for the past 8 years.  He will be truly missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing this kind soul!!

We love you Sweet Boy, you will forever live on in our hearts…Run Free.

Mom and Dad

Our much beloved Rocky passed away peacefully here at home on his favorite bed on January 24th 2018. He was a wonderful companion and member of our family for almost 11 years. He was a beautiful boy in spirit and loved everyone and everyone loved him too. He was simply wonderful.    Pam

November 27, 2023
Our beloved Sahara passed away peacefully at our home with all the love around her. We are devastated, but also feel good the way she was able to pass over to her next life. Sahara will always be in our hearts. We were lucky to have had her in our life. She gave us infinite love, always.

Dear Virginia German Shepherd Rescue, I am contacting you because I just wanted to say Thank you. I know I thanked you back in December 2012 when Rosy first came into our lives, but I need to say it again as Rosy recently (April 24, 2019) crossed the Rainbow Bridge due to bloat.

She was seriously the perfect girl for Neil and me. So loving and sweet and beautiful and the exact temperament and energy as her humans. A few years ago she developed a condition that required a surgery to have all her nails removed and required monthly checkups and several medications (Symmetric Lupoid Onychodystrophy / SLO), and we were so glad she was part of our family so that we could love her and take care of her through those trials, as she had been with us through our own. We got through that and she really got a pep in her step again over the last year or so. In fact, last summer Neil and I decided that we would plan our vacation completely around Rosy while she was feeling young and chipper. We traveled through the Shenandoah and West Virginia and North Carolina to stay in barns and yurts and in the woods so that she could hike until her heart was content. She LOVED LOVED LOVED hiking with us! So we went as much as we could as a family.

But on April 24, she bloated sometime in the middle of the night. We have been so very sad and at times lost without her, but at the same time so grateful that she was part of our lives for so long - almost 7 years. She was so loving and loyal. There will never be another soul like her. Thanks for all you do.     Rachel (and Neil) Ghadiali

RIP 9/11/2008 - 1/15/21
Sasha came into rescue in 2014, was adopted and brought back into foster three times and finally passed in her sleep while with her last foster. Though she had different owners and fosters and lived in different. homes, she was a loyal and loving soul to the end. She could be a couch potato or a backyard hunter, looking for deer and wildlife...she always loved her people and was full of life until the end.