Muttville

Week after week, Sherri walked these senior dogs. She watched families pass their kennels without stopping. She saw the excitement when puppies arrived and the resignation when older dogs had been there too long.

She thought about how much love these dogs still had to give. How gentle they were. How they didn't need the constant energy and training puppies required. How they just wanted someone to sit with them, to be near them, to let them matter again.

And she thought about another group nobody seemed to want: senior citizens living alone.

In 2007, Sherri founded Muttville — a non-profit dedicated exclusively to rescuing senior dogs from shelters and finding them homes.

She started in her own house. Dogs in her living room, her bedroom, her kitchen. She posted on social media, reached out to shelters, spread the word that she would take the old dogs nobody else wanted.

The calls started coming.

-- This Week in History, December 31, 2025