A gentle Cattle Dog mix named Ace was given up to the Humane Society of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, California. The most astonishing part of his surrender was his age, as he had already reached nineteen years of life.
Being relinquished so late in life would have been difficult for any animal, yet circumstances soon became even more challenging. Not long after he arrived, a destructive wildfire moved through Sonoma County.
Space was urgently needed for evacuees and their animals, so Ace and other dogs without adopters had to be transferred elsewhere. He was transported nearly 150 miles to the Sacramento SPCA, where his journey would soon shift in an unexpected way.
Ace Arrives
Word quickly spread that a nineteen-year-old dog had just been brought into the SPCA shelter…