Posted in General

So I had a ten-minute heart attack today... With the lovely weather, I had the windows open at home, and Edison likes to crawl up and sit in the bathroom window. We live in an older house and the rope weights in the window frame are broken, so must be propped up to stay open. Well I was in the living room and heard a thump in the bathroom, and I fi… read more

Posted in Adoptions

Recently at BHS, many of our adult pit bull terriers who've been there for months are finally going home. I'm so happy to see Ava, Sydney, and especially Glory in the loving home they deserve. Glory's happy ending is especially heartwarming knowing that we took her from another shelter on the day she was scheduled to be euthanized - a perfectly won… read more

Posted in Fundraising

Our first day of Pet Photos with Santa went so great! We saw all kinds of fun dogs - bulldogs, greyhounds, miniature poodles, boston terriers, dacschunds, a golden retriever, and some of the most adorable mutts you'll ever see. No cats or anything else so far, but I'm sure we will by Christmas. Everyone was so kind, and very understanding when the … read more

Posted in In Memoriam

So my little guy Fu Yu had been under the weather for the past week or so, and after talking with people at Petco we began treating his bowl with Trisulfa. After the first day of treatment he acted much happier, his fins and tail weren't quite so clamped and he was active and swimming around instead of either lying on the bottom or gulping air up t… read more

Posted in Shelter Makeover

A shelter makeover cannot come fast enough! Yesterday, water began welling out of the wall in our kitten room, and today it started to come up from cracks in the concrete floor at our front desk. Turns out the galvanized water pipe installed when the original part of our shelter was built (1946) has basically crumbled away. Of course we found this … read more