We Remember

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...

Pretty Tippy is a sweetheart, owner surrendered to a shelter for euthanasia. Staff at the shelter was told “She’s almost 16 years old and she’s going blind”. While she...

Meet Eleanor Rigby, one of the newest recipients of the Maranda Fund generosity! Eleanor is a youthful and spunky terrier (perhaps a Silky mix) and therefore was an excellent...

  Sweet SPARKY is a little guy who’s been passed around a lot in his life and finally found himself at the shelter right before the holidays. He arrived...

Jay came to me as a very anxious little boy. He had many health issues, like many older dogs, bad teeth, luxating patellas, arthritis, spondylosis, lung tumor, etc. along with anxiety....

Gabby is a 15 year old Shih tzu/Pekingese girl who was surrendered to ODH because her owner was terminally ill.  Her primary health problems were very bad tooth decay,...

Cedar is a beautiful beagle who came to ODH after being a “stray” at the shelter.    She had two mammary tumors  (and of course wasn’t spayed) and a huge...

Katja, likely a chow-lab mix, came into the shelter at age 15 with an eye that had been bitten badly and left untreated for months. ODH was asked to...

Chino was a handsome, mellow little man who came with the usual host of neglected old dog issues—eyes, ears, skin, back, arthritis, hearing and vision. We immediately set about...