Over the past three or so years I have watched every rescue page, searched shelter websites, and subscribed to every adoption email I could find dreaming of a future day when I could responsibly adopt a dog of my very own. There were so many adorable furry faces that I came across and longingly wished it was the right time. Then at the beginning of August, a retriever/ border collie mix showed up in my email inbox. There was no photo, but there was just something about the profile description that I knew, this was my dog. Gordie has immediately
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Monthly Archives August 2021
Lemon-Aid Stand
Jameson and Finley are kind kids indeed! Inspired by their love of animals, they decided to donate the funds raised from their lemonade, orange juice, and cookie stand to HSHV to help our animal residents. Thank you, Jameson and Finley! We are so appreciative of your kindness and generosity!
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Awesome Aubrey
Aubrey is such a kind kid! Aubrey had a lemonade stand and decided to donate the funds she raised to HSHV to help our animal residents because she loves animals. Thank you so much, Aubrey! We are thankful for your generosity, and we know the animals are too!
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Caring Christopher
Christopher is a very kind kid, and he wanted to help dogs and cats! Christopher and his dad were able to collect and donate blankets, food, and medical supplies to HSHV to help our animal residents. Thank you, Christopher! We are so grateful for your kindness!
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TNR Survey Results
In 2020 HSHV conducted a phone survey of past clients that were involved with our TNR program. This was done to give a sense of how well HSHV’s TNR program is doing, as well as to help benchmark the effectiveness of TNR overall. TNR Survey HSHV conducted a phone survey to help determine the effectiveness of our TNR program for clients who leveraged our program between 2014 and 2017. Questions were designed to help us understand the size and condition of the colony in 2020 as compared to when TNR began at the location. Out of the 136 individuals contacted,
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Riley now known as Cain finds his new forever home
We lost our fur baby back in March and decided we needed a new fur baby. We went to HSHV where we found our new friend. We love him so much!!!❤️ Riley now Cain
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Happy Birthday to Longitude!
We recently celebrated Long’s 1st birthday! That marks over 8 months of having the best cat in the world. He’s absolutely blossomed into a lovely and affectionate cat from a rambunctious kitten, even if his paws didn’t really grow with him! Here’s to many more years with my best furry friend 🙂
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Training your… cat?
More and more, cat owners are understanding that there’s more to living with a cat than just caring for their physical needs. The word is out that cats love training and that their emotional needs are just as important.
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Roundabout Adoption
In July 2018 my widowed sister-in-law adopted Elizabeth from the Love Train. Forward two years and my sister-in-law developed dementia and had to move to assisted living where dogs were not permitted. As no other family members were stepping forward to take Elizabeth in, we agreed to take her and hope she gets along with my lab and kitty cat. My sister-in-law lived in an apartment, and as her illness progressed I think Elizabeth’s life was negatively impacted. Less frequent walks, maybe not a consistent feeding schedule. Well Lizzy has now become a much loved family member. She and my
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Transformation of Love
I am writing one of my favorite Happy Tales. I am an Animal Care Tech in adoptions at HSHV. I have been working here for over 7 years and have had many, many happy stories and many, many happy tears. The story of Tang/Ollie is at the very top for me. I did get permission from his adoptive family and they would love for me to share his story. It started when I saw a crowd of staff around cage 19 in Uptown Cats. Everyone was fawning over a “new guy.” It was an orange and white older-looking fella named
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