Age: 9 Months Sex: Female Breed: Retriever Mix Weight: 50lbs Restrictions: Must Meet Dogs; No Kids under 5 Frankie is a fearful young dog who is seeking foster. She was able to get out to foster temporarily but had to return to the shelter due to reasons unrelated to her. She does seem to be more confident in the presence of another dog from what we have seen at the shelter. She was reported to have separation anxiety in her previous adoptive home and was reported to be partially house-trained – she had been working on this in her previous foster home and had
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Monthly Archives July 2026
Mr. Big
After adopting Esidisi (formerly Crispin) from HSHV at the beginning of 2025, I knew where to look first when I needed a “replacement” to fill Esidisi’s role in my barn after he was promoted to an inside cat. I spent several weeks waiting for the right cat to pop up. I love working with rough-looking, angry feral cats. One day, Mr. Big (formerly Unitas) appeared on the HSHV site. He was an older guy with a very unique look, and I immediately fell in love. When we went to meet him, the lady who took us to see him told
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Lulu Would Love A Foster
Age: 7 Sex: Female Breed: Pitbull Mix Weight: 57 lbs Restrictions: No Dogs; No Cats; No Kids Under 5 Lulu came to the shelter at the beginning of February and would love to get out into a home environment again. She was in foster for a month, but her foster could not continue fostering her due to moving. She does need to be the only pet in the home due to prey drive and previous conflict with another dog in her first home. She would benefit from continuing positive reinforcement reactivity training. Even though she is 7 years old, she still has plenty of
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Oats Is Seeking Foster
Age: 1 Sex: Male Breed: Pitbull Mix Weight: 66 lbs Restrictions: Must Meet Dogs; No Kids Under 12 Oats is a nervous young guy who is not comfortable in a busy kennel. He could do well with another dog with a successful meeting. We have no history with cats, so plan to be able to separate them. He is too nervous to be with young kids but could meet older kids to see how he would do with them. How to Foster Oats: New fosters can take the first step by learning about fostering and signing up to become a new foster. Veteran foster parents can
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Support kitty for my dog
In 2022, we adopted Howard Anthony ( then called Wonka). He was from Envigo labs and was rescued. We adopted him at 11 months old. He never had pets or snuggles and never walked on grass or had toys to play with. He was adjusting and loved us and his home, but he was still having problems learning to dog. He seemed interested in dogs but was intimidated by them. We still thought he needed a companion. Last year in July we decided to adopt a kitten for him. It was love at first sight. The female orange kitten we
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Cyclops and Reese happy together in their forever home
Two peas in a pod already!
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Emri Would Like A Foster
Age: 1 Sex: Female Breed: Pitbull Mix Weight: 49 lbs Restrictions: No Dogs; No Kids Under 5, Discretion Under 12 Emri is uncomfortable being surrounded by other dogs here at the shelter and needs a foster home without any other dogs. She does enjoy spending time in our play yards here and lounging in the dog pool. A fenced yard and a quiet neighborhood (without much dog traffic) would be helpful to get a better idea of her personality and see how she does in a home environment when she is not so stressed. She needs a home without young kids due to
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Case Dogs Need Fosters
We currently have 2 case dogs waiting for foster placement. They are here because HSHV is the holding facility for animals going through court trials. They cannot be adopted. We are not able to spay or neuter them. They would all be much more comfortable in a home since cases can take a long time to resolve. Only the first letter of their name will be provided for privacy. First is R: Age: 5 Sex: Male Breed: Pit Mix Weight: 57 Pounds Restrictions: Must Meet Dogs. R is a friendly and wiggly guy, but he is very frustrated in his kennel and
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Lemonade Love
Ember and Presley are such kind kids! Inspired by their love of animals, they decided to donate the funds raised from their lemonade and cookie stand to HSHV to help our animal residents. They had a lot of fun raising money for a great cause. Thank you so much, Ember and Presley! We greatly appreciate your thoughtful donation!
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Cyclops finds his forever loving home
Went looking for kittens and fell in love with Cyclops. He’s such a sweet loving boy and settling in perfect. Cyclops
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