We Remember

Little Abigail – Abbey to her family – came into a busy shelter as a “stray”. Hard to believe she would have wandered off since her main interest is...

Larkin’s story: I’m probably a Lhasa/Shih Tzu mix with all the worst qualities of the Lhasa and the best of the Shih Tzu. I was rescued during a frigid...

Malibu’s owner took her to the shelter; she was so rickety and weak that staff immediately asked if ODH could help. A mastiff mix weighing a ladylike just-under-100 pounds,...

Stubbs was brought to the shelter by his last owner, who’d gotten him from CraigsList – which probably means a dog who’d been passed around a lot. He arrived...

Cherry was 14 when she came into a shelter, a fragile little chihuahua-rat terrier mix. She took a while to adjust to her new life but with patience and...

It was just by luck that we noticed Stacie; she’d just been left at the shelter by owners who’d found her on CraigsList but “couldn’t housebreak her”. Judith glanced...

My beautiful little pirate girl, Sammy. She came to me early last July as an ODH “urgent need” shelter pull. Sammy had been abandoned at a shelter multiple times,...

Floyd arrived at a huge shelter as a terribly crippled but not very old senior. As providence would have it, one of our longtime foster families was thinking about...

Black Jack was an English Springer spaniel’s breeder’s “oops” – father was a Labrador. Jack is an adorable combination who looks like a Springer with a thicker black coat...

Zoe, a 12-year-old cocker spaniel, was very bonded to her original owner. When he died, she spent most of her time in a back room of a family member’s...