It is Jessica Alvarez who we thank for guiding us to Olive. Earlier in the year, she had adopted her own Sidney from Rescue Dogs Rock and urged Jessica Faust to check out their rescues. The minute Jessica saw Olive’s sweet face, she just knew. She was the dog for us.

Since we were looking during 2020 (at the height of the pandemic), things were slow and, Jessica will admit, she was panicking. Dogs were being adopted at a record rate, and she feared we wouldn’t even get a chance to meet Olive. But we did, and it was love at first sight.

Olive was rescued from an abusive home in Texas and brought to New Jersey where she lived with a wonderful foster family for six months while receiving physical therapy on a pelvis and leg damaged when she was hit by a car in Texas. She still limps slightly, but it certainly doesn’t slow her down. This boxer-mix now lives with Jessica Faust’s family and spends her days in the office lounging and napping.

Olive does not read and is not open to submissions.