Help Bring Bud Home

01/30/2026

Another dog going home!

These stories are difficult to read but we're so thankful she & her puppies were saved.

Held hostage in a crate, in a dirty basement & used as a breeding machine.

How do people do this?

How do you steal a family member?

How do you treat them like they are material objects without feelings?

Locked in crates.
No blankets. Only hard concrete floors.

Only for profit. Not an once of love or caring.

Meanwhile, family's like this one, like us & all the others go wondering what happened to their beloved dog. The family's that treated them like FAMILY.

Just how?

Remember Ramen? Her, her nine puppies, and nine adult dogs arrived at our facility from one house earlier this month. After that post went out, we were contacted by someone who provided irrefutable proof that Ramen was her dog that had been missing since April of last year. Ramen remained in foster care with her nine puppies, nursing them until they were old enough to eat on their own. Then the beautiful reunion happened, and Ramen is back with her family. Ramen is actually named Nova, and she’s incredibly happy to be back with her people ❤.

01/17/2026

The Abandoned of Cook County thankfully saved some dogs during a search warrant. And this is one of them that had an owner looking. So happy she was reunited. And she’d apparently not the only one from the search warrant who has an owner.

Thank you for all you do to reunited pets with their owners & help those that need a loving home.

We wanted to provide you all an update on Poutine. She has been reunited with her original owner 🥹❤️. This person is a truck driver and Poutine was his co-pilot. After stopping at a truck stop one day, Poutine went missing. He never gave up hope. After all the posts about her and the other 17 dogs from one house, he realized that was his dog and provided proof that only her owner would know. Last night, they were finally reunited and Poutine let out the happiest little noises 💕.

01/03/2026

I’m always grateful to see another reunion of a dog that’s been missing for many years from family.

At the same time astonished at the amount of time that has gone by and the dog never was checked for a chip.

Why aren’t they being checked?

This should be a non-negotiable when any new dog is brought in to a veterinary facility.

How does someone have another family’s dog this long and it go un-detected?

Are they not taking the dog for regular check- ups?

Something as simple as scanning a dog. But somehow it’s not done.

12/19/2025

It’s coming up on the 3rd year since Bud went missing - He was with his regular dog walker that was watching him for two days while I went to a funeral out of town.

The dog walker lived in on 107th & Parnell.

I was told Bud went missing from the yard along with the dog walkers two dogs - his dogs were a male black w/ white pitbull & a female tan w/ white pitbull.

He didn’t say what day the dogs went missing from yard.

Bud was dropped off the afternoon of 12/26/22 & I returned to pick him up on the morning of 12/28/25. That is when I was told he was missing.

If you know someone that found Bud, a male blonde in color or these two dogs on or around these dates please message us.

12/10/2025

5 years & 2,000 miles away from home. God had a plan for them. Praying he’s got Bud & I in the same 🙏🏾❤️🐾

A little dog named Choco has been reunited with his family in Sacramento nearly five years after he disappeared! ❤️🐾

Choco was found tied to a fence in Detroit, Michigan, more than 2,000 miles from his home. https://abc7.la/4pAIWAf

11/19/2025

So true 🐾🖤🐾

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Half mastermind, half drama queen — and 100% heart! 💛🐾

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11/19/2025

We’ve tried to keep posts focused on this. We don’t know the circumstances of how Bud went missing - all we do know is that he was in the care of his regular dog walker.

He had been walking Bud regularly for years. And occasionally overnight if boarding wasn’t available.

The day after Christmas 2022 - i dropped Bud off with him. He was watching him while I was out of town for a family funeral.

When I returned he told me he didn’t know where Bud was. That Bud along with his two dogs went missing from the yard.

If you found Bud please reach out - no questions asked. I just want my dog home 🙏🏼🙏🏾🙏🏼🙏🏾🙏🏼

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