We Remember

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...

Our precious Sadie was an old nearly blind and almost deaf bichon stray that thankfully landed in a shelter. Despite developing kennel cough at her advanced age, this grand...

Orion came into the shelter a pretty sad picture:    VERY thin, missing hair everywhere with a red bare belly and angry-red bare throat, infected red ears, very bent hind...

  From Virgil’s Final Refuge Mom: “When Virgil arrived at my home he was skinny, bedraggled, covered with scabs from skin allergies, and very frightened.  His ears hurt, he was...

BUGS or BUGSY BOO OBIT BUGS was a STAR of a dog – a real trooper through all her adversity.  She was a recipient of the Maranda Fund, and...

From Kennedy’s Final Refuge Mom: Kennedy passed away at home on June 11, 2019.  He was 16 years old. We had him with us for 21 months. When he...

In many ways little (5.4 pound) Tasha is a typical ODH pup: she came with a badly infected mouth, luxating patellas that make her hop (literally, on three legs),...

Mercy is a precious soul in a battered, neglected body…but that doesn’t slow her down one bit! Her paperwork says she was turned in to the shelter on her...