We Remember

When Behr came to his foster family he had very little fur due to the shelter needing to shave him almost bare. He was badly matted and full of...

When she came into ODH care from the shelter at age 14, Leia was overweight and had lost much of her coat (see her “before” picture). And, as is usually...

This lovely little old lady (now called Ella Mae), who is a bit unsteady on her feet and almost totally blind, found herself in a shelter after being picked...

Gumby’s foster family likes to think of him as everyone’s favorite grandfather. He makes all the appropriate old man noises, smells, and hurumphs at all the right times –...

Ridley came to us after being returned to the shelter four times. He was the poster boy for “I Don’t Know Who I Am.” He was so damaged; physically,...

  Porter was delivered to a shelter as a stray. He was estimated to be around 10 years of age and was scheduled to be euthanized after being diagnosed...

  Hermey is a wonderful, FUN old dog. He found himself “stray” in spite of being almost completely blind – we often wonder how do all these old blind...

Little Rooney found himself left at a big shelter at age 14, very confused and very frightened.    He’d never been neutered and looked pretty scruffy.    Immediately after arriving in...

Ginger was brought to a shelter when a woman came home and found her tied to the railing on her front porch with a bag of dog food and...

Shaylah and Wyatt, were two unlikely roommates who figured out how to peacefully coexist.  They joined their new Final Refuge family within a few months of each other and...