Leo and Savi Stoffels: The Best of Friends
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Our family was researching puppies when a tiny one-week old gray tabby kitten was found abandoned in my office parking lot at work. We think her mother may have dropped her while moving her kittens. Luckily, she was discovered, and our family decided she was meant to be with us. Savi (short for Savannah) was quite helpless at just a week old. Our family took turns bottle feeding her every few hours through the days and evenings for weeks and showered her with lots of love! When she turned four months old, we decided she needed a friend. We then adopted a beautiful orange tabby who we named Leo from Waggytail Rescue. Waggytail rescues kittens and cats from a high-kill shelter in Monroe, Alabama and brings them to New York to find loving homes.
Leo and Savi are like typical siblings - they run and play with toys during the day, chase each other around the house, fight at times and snuggle at times. They are best friends.
This adorable pair has brought countless hours of joy and love to our home. They weren’t the pets we were expecting, but they turned out to be the perfect pets for our family!
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Clover: A Pandemic Pup
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Meet Clover, a true pandemic puppy, having joined the Bower family in August of 2020, when she was about 10 weeks old. She is a rescue (Lab and American Bulldog mix) from the Home for Good Dog Rescue in Berkeley Heights, NJ. Clover (originally named Whitney) has 6 brothers and sisters and they were all listed on the Home for Good Dog Rescue's website. They were all cute, but the Bowers decided they wanted Whitney the most. They submitted an application, but were told that all the puppies were already adopted. They were very disappointed, but just a day later, they got a call back from the shelter saying Whitney was available! The puppy was given a new name, Clover Love Bower, by her older siblings - Avery (12), Stella (9), and Pierce (7). :)
Clover is a super sweet, playful, energetic puppy. She loves people, and other dogs. She is VERY tolerant (her siblings like to dress her up and make her dance - a favorite being The Git Up by Blanco Brown). She's super fast and strong. She loves to eat carrots, peanut butter and anything bacon-related. She demolishes toys in about 7 seconds. Her favorite toy that she can't break is a giant braided rope. They are still working on fetch, but she does know some other tricks including paw, sit, stay, come, high-five, spin, and catch.
She likes to give kisses and snuggles (on her own terms) and takes turns sleeping in each of the bedrooms (in her own bed) at night. She is always up for an adventure - a hike, road trip, or a swim at Rye Beach. She has brought so much joy into the Bower home and they are looking forward to many more adventures together!
Squirtle the Turtle is Good Company
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Meet Squirtle the turtle, nine year old Bo Spicer's Red-eared slider turtle.
As Bo says, "the reason I got her was because I wrote a whole story about why I needed a turtle and convinced my mom and dad."
Bo continued, "She is 7 years old and lives in a big aquarium on Tunstall Road. Squirtle loves to swim and to bask under her heating lamp. Unfortunately, Squirtle doesn’t have many turtle friends and has to make do with human friends. In the summer, we hope to find some other turtle owners and have a turtle race."
Squirtle came to Spicer’s home in December of 2021. Bo loves having Squirtle because she keeps him company and is always there when he needs to talk to someone. He also loves having her because she cheers him up when he sees her. One thing Bo loves about Squirtle is that she always follows him around in her tank and that’s a sign that she loves him.
Wolfe Family Welcomes Ruby
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The Wolfe family has a new addition. Here is an account from Sheri:
"We welcomed our sweet Ruby, the Cavapoo, a little over a week ago and our life hasn’t been the same since. We’re loving her frisky disposition and enjoying lots of cuddles throughout the day.
Ruby is a Texan girl who had her first big flight with a “nanny” to Kennedy airport. It was one of our family’s most memorable days and absolutely love at first sight!
Ruby’s brother waited a long time to have a dog, and now that he’s going off to college in the fall, the pup will be a good excuse to visit home!"
Maisy Loves Mischief
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Maisy joined the Berger family in the heart of COVID, hailing from Illinois, back in April 2021, as a puppy of 10 weeks. She loves growing up Quaker Ridge and has made so many neighborhood friends - as have her humans - Scottie, Robbie and Zuri, Phoebe, Charley, Gracie, Ginger and Lucy, to name a few.
Maisy’s first year has been filled with a lot of mischief and her humans’ attempts to set her straight. She has escaped a few times to run over to a neighbor's house looking for a playmate, dug many gardens and barks and runs towards every truck and school bus that drives by (forcing her owners to play an intense game of tug of war to avoid getting run over!)
But the joy she provides to her humans makes it all worthwhile. She loves following her “Mommy” everywhere she goes, underfoot; she joins in every child playdate (jumping and running around just like the rest of her “sisters" and their friends); and she loves licking the bathwater from the tub when her little sister takes a nightly bath. She happily joins bedtime rituals, snuggling into her sister’s beds for bedtime, listening to story-time, and expects equal tummy rubbing and attention when it is time for her bedtime.
Maisy and her humans love it when people introduce themselves. Maisy would be happy to play and jump around with friendly neighborhood dogs anytime - and her humans love chatting too. We will see you around the neighborhood - happy Spring!
Best,
Russie, Jeffrey, Ella and Orly Berger
