Posted in Adoptions

The HSUS and Maddie's Fund will be teaming up this year to joing the Ad Council to present a campaign that focuses on shelter adoptions. It is the first time ever that the prestigious, 66-year-old Ad Council has focused a nationwide public service campaign on an animal welfare issue.The Ad Council has been the leading producer of public service adv… read more

Posted in Fundraising

Wow - we sure have lots of great fund raisers coming up. Our volunteers have been working their paws off collecting great gifts for the Tricky Tray on June 5. Better call for my tickets before they sell out! read more

Posted in Shelter Makeover

It makes me chuckle when I read some of the journal entries where the writers talk about particular shelters being REALLY old! Our kennel building was built at the turn of the century and I don't mean 1999!! It was a dairy barn constructed in the late 1800s and added onto over the years. Mrs. Dodge created St. Hubert's Giralda in 1939 for the prot… read more

Posted in Zootoo website

I thought I had put up duplicate shelter dog photos on my journal entries but upon examining them next to each other I can see they are a tiny bit different. Not that it matters much anymore, I wonder how it was determined so many photos and videos were duplicates. Hundreds of thousands of pieces of submitted material had to be reviewed. What a … read more

Posted in Shelter Makeover

Obviously shelters have different ideas as so how to make themselves appear worthy of consideration in the shelter make-over competition. We chose to make our shelter look as good as it can be by cleaning, straightening up and using our volunteers and staff to fix anything that could easily be fixed. read more