8:20pm

Welcome to the family, Tippy!

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Yesterday after the ZooToo visit, I heard someone say that the numerous puppies currently in the shelter would not all make it out, and I had a premonition that the one I had seen and liked would not make it out unless I took him home. So I gave in to an urge and took home a delightful little puppy that was begging for a home. He's a Husky mix, from a litter that looks like it has 3 or 4 bloodlines, including Husky, Border Collie, Golden Retriever, and maybe Australian Shepherd. The first three … read more

6:30pm

Entering the home stretch

Four days and counting, HSOV was back down to 14th yesterday, and is back up to 12th again today! I won't start celebrating early, but we're sitting pretty good going into the home stretch. On my way up to the shelter today for some volunteer time, I saw a sign at the WalMart/Lowe's shopping plaza for a new pet store. Wouldn't it be sweet to have an Adopt-A-Thon right in front of that store and urge people to adopt instead of supporting puppy mills? I walked the swe… read more

7:32pm

First cat, thanks HSOV!

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I recently started volunteering at the Marietta HSOV shelter, and on my first day there I was folding papers in the incoming room because the regular newspaper folding room is out in the receiving room and it was a very cold day out there (no heat in the receiving room). Anyhow, a cat was in one of the kennels behind me, and he was as calm as could be, with all the whining and barking and meowing going on all around. He was a beautiful cat, slate gray in color with a tiny white ma… read more