08/26/2025
This is dedicated to Paddywack Pooches 🐾 🐶
Paddywack Pooches is one of the Mary T. Inc. Family of Companies services based in Minnesota. We have been offering rescue, re-homing, rehabilitation, and community outreach to dogs and their families who need a helping paw since 2010.
Here is the backstory in the words of Jim Neuswanger:
"Paddywack Pooches had an inauspicious start. There was no grand plan or strategic meeting to start a rescue, no fundraising or ribbon cutting. It all began with a lost and injured puggle named Chance.
One day while walking, I came upon a scruffy, dirty dog with a limp and a terrible cherry eye. He had no collar, tags, or chip. Having worked with dogs for ten years, I couldn't leave him, so I snuck him into the IT office where I worked. My supervisor and I weren't sure what to do, but we knew we had to help. We cleaned him up and checked our bank accounts to afford a vet, all without telling our boss, Mary T.
A few hours later, Mary T walked in. After looking at the dog, my supervisor, and me, she said, "Hmm, what's this?" We stammered and stuttered, and with a bemused look, she simply said, "Well, we have to do something. He obviously needs help. Take him to the vet; I'll pay." And with that, Paddywack Pooches was born. Chance was cared for and adopted by a Mary T. Inc. staffer, and the rescue began.
Five hundred dogs later, Paddywack Pooches now brings dogs in need together with the people Mary T. Inc. serves, including individuals with differing abilities, brain injuries, seniors, military service members, and the community at large. We provide our pooches with access to medical care, physical and emotional rehabilitation, and foster/adoption opportunities.
Bringing people and pooches together bridges the loneliness gap for both. Paddywack Pooches treasures the human-dog relationship, and we go the extra mile to provide support to help dogs and families create or maintain that beautiful bond."
