By: Steph Phenix Associate Director & Foster At the end of this year’s service trip I struggled to find the words to summarize my experience. How do I describe the feeling of watching the project we planned over the past 4 months finally being executed? How do...
Jackson County Humane Society By: Lauren Fopiano Assistant Director & Foster On the last “work” day of the service trip, my van of five volunteers and about ten others traveled to Jackson County Humane Society. Jackson County is a new shelter for Last Hope; however, this shelter isn’t...
Stuttgart Animal Shelter By: Meg Ferguson Foster & Volunteer Today our group of 17 volunteers visited the Stuttgart Animal Shelter. This shelter is on the smaller side with 7 kennels and a puppy room. The shelter was not at capacity, however, as the shelter lead stated, they can go...
West Memphis Shelter By: Maura Tutty Senior Coordinator & Foster Today started at transport, where our southern foster partners put their foster pups and part of their hearts on the bus headed to Boston. It's so awe-inspiring to watch them confidently put their fosters on the bus sending...
Camden Shelter By: Sasha Prasad Foster & Volunteer Camden is a city of 13,000 people in Southern Arkansas. There are two shelters within the city limits of Camden – the “city” shelter and the “country” shelter. Our group of volunteers split the day between both shelters, and my...
Massachusetts-Based Last Hope K9 Rescue Heads to Arkansas for its Annual Spring Service Trip Volunteers from Northern and Southern Rescue Counterparts to Spend Six Days Improving Conditions for Shelter Dogs April 22, 2019 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Last Hope K9 Rescue (LHK9), New England’s largest entirely...
West Memphis Animal Shelter By: Lauren Fopiano Volunteer & fosterOn Day 5 of the service trip, half of our group headed to the West Memphis Shelter to work on a variety of projects. As soon as you walk into the shelter, it’s very apparent that the workers...
Friends of Stuttgart Animal Shelter By: Alicia O'Reilly Volunteer, adopter, & foster It’s Saturday, and finally we’re at the shelter I've been so eager to see: Stuttgart. You see, I adopted a LHK9 pittie named Cane 2 years ago, and this is the shelter he came from. At home...
Pine Bluff Animal Control By: Nicholina Gioiosa Adopter, volunteer, and foster I feel like it’s only right to start from the beginning: I adopted my furbaby nearly five years ago from Last Hope and immediately became friends with his northern foster mom and many other Last Hope fosters...
Camden Animal Control By: Tracy Walts Event Team Lead, foster, & volunteerEveryone tells you it is going to be hard to see the dogs in the shelter but that coming on the service trip is worth it. This is day 2 and I believe them. We started with...