Posted in Health & Wellness

Do you know what heartworm preventative is? If not, please research this terrible disease and make SURE your pets are current! Our shelter receives so many heartworm positive dogs, and it is so difficult to raise the money for their treatment. If we can't raise the money, unfortunately, they are put to sleep. This disease is fatal, and it is… read more

Posted in Health & Wellness

In the last couple of days, our shelter has recieved about 45 animal intakes! Out of those, probably 8 of them are small dogs who are as cute and adoptable as you can imagine. The only problem.....almost ALL of them have HORRIBLE teeth! This makes adopting them from a shelter environment very difficult. We have to make sure that whoever adopts… read more

Posted in Adoptions

Here is Nessie's story.... She FINALLY left for rescue with Noah's Ark tonight! Thank you so very much for rescuing one of our favorites. Below is her bio, I hope this makes all of you as happy as it did us. Intake Date: 6/26/08 Breed: Shepard X Age: 2 yrs Sex: Female I'm Bessie. I was brought to this shelter by one of the employe… read more

Posted in Legislation

See this precious pug? This is one of MANY puppy mill throw away's. We got a call from a small shelter in a neighboring county that they just had a young pug surrendered by a breeder. Their words..."We can't sell him, so we don't want him". This is typical for most puppy mill situations. The only difference is that MOST of the throw away… read more

Posted in General

This year has been a horrible year for intakes for our shelter. Although we have altered approximately 8,000 animls EACH year for the last 6 years, we are STILL NOT seeing a decrease in our intakes. Each month we are amazed that our numbers continue to rise. Nothing is more depressing than looking a healthy animal in the eye and having to put… read more