Rescue Dog Up For Adoption In Aurora: 'Fun And Lovable Guy'

AURORA, CO — An 2-year-old cattle dog named Luke Skywalker is up for adoption in Aurora through the animal welfare organization RezDawg Rescue. The nonprofit rescues stray, feral and abandoned pets who are struggling to survive on Native Reservations in the Four Corners Region. The rescued animals are then vaccinated, spayed/neutered, treated for any medical issues and placed into a foster home.

In Luke's bio, RezDawg volunteer Jackie Vlcek wrote that the rescue dog "has a sweet, affectionate personality."

"When he was found, he was quite underweight and had a wound on the back of his neck from what appears to have been an embedded chain," Vlcek said. "He is learning to appreciate toys and loves to fetch. Like most cattle dogs, he will require consistent training and daily exercise. He will do best in a home with no very young children due to his puppy-like exuberance and herding tendencies."

For more information about how to adopt Luke, visit RezDawg's partner website. You can also support pets like Luke through a donation, or by becoming a foster home.

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Steven Sable, RezDawg Rescue's communications director, said many dogs and cats are in danger on reservations, and there are simply not enough resources to help those animals.

"Some of these animals have just horrific backstories," Sable said. "There was a dog named Jack not too long ago that came in that had a horribly broken hind leg, and when we x-rayed it we found out he also had shotgun pellets near his spine."

As RezDawgs has become better known on reservations, many are taking newborn puppies and kittens — that in some cases would've been left for dead — directly to volunteers at the organization's local clinics.

"We focus primarily on relieving the animals' suffering by taking them off the [reservations] and finding them loving homes, but we're also involved in ending the problem completely, so we do regular spay and neuter clinics," Sable said.

He said the clinics at the reservations are low cost, or in many cases, no cost.

Thanks to donors, foster homes and volunteers, RezDawgs rescued more than 1,600 animals last year.