We Remember

Oh, Pookah! Here I sit, trying to compose your “We Remember” write-up for the Old Dog Haven website and I am struggling from the pain of losing you on...

Herbie’s nicknames sum him up best; Herbie the Wonder Dog and Herbie the Love Chug. This resilient and cheerful little Chug (chihuahua-pug) came to ODH totally blind and with a broken...

YoYo, a bouncy and very sweet miniature dachshund, likely had a tough early life as a breeder (YoYo was a Ma), finally finding herself late in life in a big and...

Lola is a mystery. In 2011 a shelter asked us to take a stray “cocker mix” who they thought was 14 years old and weighed 44 pounds, a big...

Rosalind (aka Rosie Begonia) came to her ODH home as a 13- to 14-year-old “stray” from the shelter. Like many neglected seniors, she was in poor physical condition and...

Lady Bug, the sweet red-headed Miniature Pinscher mix who came into our lives in late Spring, left us in late October after an overwhelming attack of pneumonia, possibly complicated...

Little Annie the bichon frise came to ODH at the age of 15 – her owner had dementia, the daughter caring for them both was overwhelmed, Annie was very...

Sir Edmund Spenser, a tiny maltese, showed up in a busy shelter looking pretty bedraggled. ODH found a Final Refuge home for him but he started to cough the...

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” A. A. Milne Caesar was found in a park by kids as a “stray”. The shelter contacted...

Irma, a Big Black Dog, came in stray to a large shelter in fall 2011, aged about 10. A sensitive girl, she became depressed in the shelter environment and...