The attractive Sonoma County home of a Northern California star is for sale for almost $4 million.
Who’s the star? Rocket the rescue dog.
Rocket ended up being well-known when he went from impending euthanasia at a Sacramento animal shelter to well known search-and-rescue canine.
“He saved a lot of lives, and he’s a hero,” said listing representative Tara Polley with Sotheby’s International Realty-Wine Country ‘Sonoma Brokerage. “That’s the hero dog.”
In 2012, Rocket was considered too energetic to be embraced and came within one day of being euthanized prior to the Sacramento SPCA advised him as a search dog. Rocket, a border collie mix, was ultimately trained, and after that coupled with firemen Mike Stornetta in 2014.
They wound up assisting very first responders throughout Hurricane Harvey, which struck Texas and Louisiana in 2017, according to The Sacramento Bee.
That’s when Rocket’s story went viral.
Rocket continues to do search-and-rescue deal with Stornetta, however they will quickly have brand-new digs. Stornetta is offering the amazing Santa Rosa, California, estate he shows Rocket for $3.995 million.
The home entertainment substance is consisted of 2 single-level houses with different addresses and a huge 2,400-square-foot shop and garage.
The property is topped 5 acres, adequate land to please any energetic dog.
Built in 2021, the three-bedroom primary home covers 2,792 square feet and centers around a welcoming swimming pool, a covered outside cooking area and a home entertainment location. Inside is a work-from-home workplace, 3 complete classy restrooms, and an excellent room with vaulted ceilings. A wrap-around deck offers style to the contemporary farmhouse-style residence.
The 2nd home has 1,200 square feet of living space “with meticulous attention to detail and quality,” according to the listing. There’s a connected two-car garage and carport. The interior functions a stone fireplace. Outside, quite landscaping extends out to an attractive vineyard.
The shop provides a lot of room to store toys: 5th wheels, boats, tractors, tools.
“This workshop sanctuary invites you to unleash your craftsmanship to the fullest,” the listing for 414-412 Royal Meadows Court states.
It has high ceilings, a 16-foot center roll-up door and 2 flanking roll-up doors.
“There’s so many great things about the home, such as the indoor-outdoor living,” Polley said. “The great room opens up into an outdoor kitchen and an outdoor living room, right up to the pool. It’s a fantastic entertaining house. It also has a big, huge shop on it, so if you like to travel and you want to store your fifth wheel, or if you’re a craftsman, have a hobby, or anything like that, this shop is like the man cave of your dreams.
“And then there’s the multi-generational living, having those two houses on the same property, that is really nice,” she included. “And it’s all usable acreage. It’s on five acres and it’s flat and usable. It’s surrounded by hills. The views are just spectacular.”
The average home rate in Santa Rosa is $875,000 according to realtor.com.
Polley is going to include the dog — and the home — on “The American Dream” reveal that she hosts.
Rocket was trained as an urban search and rescue dog to discover catastrophe victims who live however caught in collapsed structures. Stornetta and Rocket’s very first rescue objective together sent them to an aircraft crash in Northern California in 2016.
Rocket is the just Urban Search and Rescue (USAR)-trained dog in Sonoma County and the only one north of Marin County and south of the Washington border, according to a Sotheby’s International Realty agent.
This post was altered at 2:55 p.m. on June 13 to remedy details about where Rocket and Mike Stornetta had actually just recently worked throughout their search-and-rescue efforts.
