
About
Pepper's Senior Dog Sanctuary provides a compassionate, loving, lifelong home where elderly dogs are cared for during their good days, bad days, and last days.
Our Mission
Peppers' Senior Dog Sanctuary (PSDS) provides senior dogs with a compassionate, forever home, at our veterinarian supervised sanctuary. We care for our dogs for all the days of their lives, including hospice needs. We are the premier “dog retirement community” for canines who need us most—forever. We fill a unique need and space in senior dog sanctuaries. While you won’t find shuffleboard at our sanctuary, our seniors have other amenities and supports that make Pepper’s a well-deserved luxury for senior dogs. We provide small group and one-on-one care; enormous space to play, lounge, and sleep kiddie-pool-side; individual bedroom suites, professionally trained staff and volunteers; and dedicated physical therapy and medical care. Dogs who become part of the Pepper’s family win the retirement lottery.

FOR CANINES WHO NEED US MOST—FUREVER.
We will officially open in 2023 after construction completion of our full-scale sanctuary. We have already welcomed some dogs who currently live with our leadership team and at the sanctuary, and are raising funds to complete our $5 million capital campaign.
PSDS only adopts dogs from area shelters and rescues, helping to ease the burden of overcrowding at shelters. We DO NOT accept dogs via owner surrender or drop offs. The ASPCA estimates that approximately 670,000 dogs who enter U.S. shelters each year are euthanized. Sadly, many of these dogs who are considered seniors and special needs dogs are prematurely or unnecessarily euthanized due to age, special medical needs, testing heartworm positive, or having a disability. At PSDS, age and appearances don’t matter—we’re specially equipped to care for elderly and special needs dogs for their entire journey, and we are all in for the rest of their lives once they come to us.
Our Staff
We are pleased to introduce you to our fabulous and hardworking staff here at Pepper's Senior Pet Sanctuary.
We also invite you to explore our Leadership Team here.

Stephanie Ward
Sanctuary Dog Care & Volunteer Coordinator
Stephanie is a proud Colorado native, Wheat Ridge Farmer, and CSU Ram. So it is fitting that from age five, her wish was to be a cowgirl surrounded by dogs and farm animals. Growing up she was sure the cherry tree in the backyard provided enough shade for a pony. While that turned out not to be, here she is some fifty years later...

Julie Roberts
Sanctuary Dog Care and Volunteer Coordinator
Julie spent 24 years working for a major tech company as a corporate trainer, project manager, and communications specialist, as well as founding EMPOCO, a local nonprofit that provided medical and educational opportunities to underserved communities both in Colorado and abroad, before its transition to YANAM2M.
