We Remember

Grace is a black and tan longhaired Dachshund, around 12 years old. When she came into care, just before Thanksgiving 2013, she had been severely neglected. She was weak,...

A tall Australian Shepherd mix, Ryan came into a shelter with a ghastly-looking left hind leg. All the skin was gone from midway in the long bone down to...

Niki came into a shelter quite thin and lonely but with lovely manners and that beautiful face. We had bloodwork done which suggested Cushings disease or primary liver disease,...

Edith, another “stray” at a large shelter, came to ODH as “old, lumpy-bumpy” but seemed anything but old to her ODH family! She settled in very happily and her...

Miles was brought into a shelter by someone who said he’d found the dog; sadly, the microchip was registered to the “finder” who evidently had neglected him for years...

Hope, a lab mix, was pretty young for an old dog — probably about 9 or 10. She was dropped off at a shelter with end-stage lymphoma. Not wanting...

Debbie came into a big shelter as a “stray”, and a real matted mess. She’d obviously had a LOT of puppies (plastic surgery might help her looks) and had...

It was late Sunday afternoon when we noticed Rucker’s legs looked a little  weak. By Sunday night, he was unable to stand and sadly, we knew that we had...

Big Jerome landed as a stray in a shelter with one HUGE lipoma (benign fatty tumor) on a shoulder. With that “deformity”, of course no one wanted to take...

From Minky’s ODH family: We have been lucky enough to welcome into our home Minky (AKA, “The Minkster” because he has become surprisingly sporty, and “The Mink” because he...