Dogs Have Angels Too: Exploring Resilience and Redemption with Sarah Cavallaro

Dogs Have Angels Too: Your Host Julie Marty-Pearson, interviews Sarah Cavallaro on Healing, Storytelling, and Dog Adoption Advocacy

In this episode of The Story of My Pet podcast, Sarah shares how she became an animal lover after growing up without pets, including the childhood loss of a rescued kitten and later adopting a puppy, Athena, while in college and bringing her to New York City. Athena’s ongoing bladder issues and their bond became the inspiration for Sarah’s book Dogs Have Angels Too, which explores when people surrender pets and the responsibility of caring for them. 

Sarah discusses her path from running Emerald Films, a Fortune 500 commercial production company, to returning to writing as a healing, transformative process, creating characters like Ms. Pink—a woman devastated by job loss and a Ponzi-scheme collapse who finds purpose helping homeless dogs. Sarah hopes to adapt the story into a scripted TV series that promotes dog adoption and animal welfare education, and she highlights organizations supporting pets of unhoused people and keeping pets with families facing financial hardship.

To learn more about Sarah, checkout her Website and Follow on Instagram.

01:33 Rescuing Athena
03:31 Athena Inspires Fiction
05:02 From Producer to Author
06:04 Writing Through Change
07:25 Storytelling and Healing
10:18 Authenticity and Purpose
11:50 From Play to Novel
13:07 Ms Pink Hits Bottom
15:48 Meaning in Helping Dogs
16:49 Host Finds New Path
17:59 Rebuilding After Loss
19:05 Park Scene and Empathy
20:28 Unexpected Collaborations
21:23 TV Series Vision
22:20 Rescue Programs That Work
23:20 Exposing Puppy Mills and Testing
25:15 Making Episodes With Purpose
28:01 Helping Pets of the Homeless
30:58 Keeping Families Together
32:46 How You Can Help Today

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