We Remember

Layla was partially paralyzed in her back legs when she came into the shelter. ODH was asked to take her but our pre-intake lab work showed that she also...

Tiny little Knuckles came into a big shelter in 2012 as a VERY old dog. She lived happily in an ODH home with a group of other tiny little...

In very early 2013 the shelter asked us to take an old rottweiler who was seriously anemic and perhaps failing kidneys. Our “rottie home” agreed to take him for...

Bodie, an incredibly endearing miniature Schnauzer, came to us when a large number of dogs were confiscated from a hoarding situation. He stank beyond belief, was coated in disgusting...

Littlefoot, who we believe is a Lab/Shar-Pei mix, wandered into a kind person’s home in terrible condition. He pleaded with ODH to take her, so after her stray hold...

Jasper was, we think, a pug/schipperke mix. The shelter noticed signs of the neurologic deficits which so many older pugs suffer from, so he went to an ODH home...

Cinnamon, a Springer Spaniel mix, was left at one of the large shelters as a stray. Fortunately, one of the wonderful volunteers there saw her and immediately contacted Old...

Deke is a BIG dog, a mix of unknown breeds – shepherd? and perhaps St. Bernard and/or malamute. Surrendered to a shelter at 10 years old and underweight, his...

When Fox came to his ODH home, he was suffering from a severe case of PTSD and chronic back pain. At some point in his life he’d been left...

Oliver came to ODH from a home where he’d been left outside in a pen with goats. (Perhaps the most unusual story of that year….) He was in pretty...