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...
Humane Society of Saline County By: Alicia O'Reilly Volunteer, adopter, & foster It’s day 1 of the service trip, and I don’t know what to expect. See I’ve never gone on the trip before, and I don’t even know most volunteers I’ll be traveling with. Nervous and excited I was...
As volunteers, donors, fosters, trainers, adopters, and veterinary care partners, you have made it possible for Last Hope K9 Rescue to save 1,202 happy dogs in 2017. In a year of so many natural disasters, we were all tested with unprecedented demand. In response to...
CONTACT: DisasterRelief@lashopek9.org MA-BASED LAST HOPE K9 RESCUE BECOMES LIFELINE FOR ST. JOHN USVI DOGS DISPLACED BY HURRICANES IRMA & MARIA Dog Rescue Makes Plea for Foster Homes, Food/Vet Support BOSTON, MA (October 04, 2017) – Last Hope K9 Rescue (LHK9), New England’s largest volunteer-run, foster-based dog rescue and...
By: Steph Phenix Medical Coordinator, adopter, and foster mom The first time I came to Arkansas was on the second annual LHK9 service trip in April 2014. Spring was a little behind in Boston that year, but as soon as we left the airport in Little Rock I saw...