Another Chance Ranch has super entry in ‘Puppy Bowl’
If you want to inject the cute factor into your pre-Super Bowl activities on Sunday, try rooting for Blaze.
Blaze, a 5-month-old puppy who lives in Livonia, is a contestant on Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl VI, which will be from 3 to 5 p.m. on cable channel 68.
In October, Petfinder, a national adoption rescue Web service and one of the sponsors of the program, sent out a call to all of its member shelters to enter their puppies.
Sue Mahoney, who runs Another Chance Ranch in Conesus, saw the post and happened to have a 2-month-old Australian shepherd/American Staffordshire terrier mix rescued, along with his sister, from a shelter.
She decided to send in Blaze’s picture and was asked to come to Maryland for filming of Puppy Bowl.
Animal Planet has not notified her whether Blaze won anything, but he is listed as part of the lineup, complete with his photo at http://animal.discovery.com.
“We’ll be watching Sunday to see if he won,” Mahoney says.
Blaze and his sister have been adopted out of the no-kill shelter that Mahoney started after helping rescue animals following Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.
“I came back home and told my husband I wanted to do more,” she says, and she started the process of establishing the nonprofit.
Now, she and her husband, Conesus Town Judge Ray Mahoney, joke that they’re like farmers because they’re taking care of animals “from the crack of dawn to late at night.”
The shelter’s Web site is at www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY705.html.
