Written by: Jill Monahan Assistant Director, Board of Directors, foster mom Last Hope K9 Rescue I am lucky enough to fall in love and get my heart broken dozens of times a year; I am a foster mom to homeless dogs through Last Hope K9 Rescue. Having these rescue dogs...
On our fourth day of our trip to Arkansas, we visited the Warren animal shelter. The day started out with about a 2 hour drive out to the country where Warren is located. A tree covered dirt road led us to a small 3 sided...
Written By: Kelli Leahy Assistant Director, Home Visit Coordinator, Member, Board of Directors Last Hope K9 Rescue “My mission is to rescue. My dream is that one day, I won’t have to.” Day 3 is officially in the books! We had the opportunity to visit not one, but two...
Written By: Jill Monahan Foster Manager Secretary, Board of Directors Last Hope K9 Rescue It’s the morning of day 3 and I’m just getting around to writing our first blog post…it's safe to say we’ve been busy! Our first day was spent at West Memphis Animal Shelter, and if you...
from Lulu's (wonderful) former adopters: Meet Lucuma! Lucuma—Lu or Lulu for short – is a medium-sized, medium-energy snugglebug tripod who is housetrained and crate trained. Lulu has some special needs that I want to explain to you, her potential future adopters. As far as we know,...
By Jill Monahan Five years ago this January, a group from my college did a Habitat for Humanity trip to New Orleans. It was there that I was first exposed to the realities of dog fighting and to how severe the stray dog problem is in some parts of our country, especially...
Written By: Krystal, Database Coordinator On Saturday a group of us spent some time at Benton Animal Control in Benton, Arkansas. This was the largest shelter we visited, and also the fullest. I came to the Benton shelter last year as well and was happy to have...
Written By: Steph Phenix, Medical Coordinator On the final day of our trip, all of the volunteers traveled to Bald Knob, a town of about 3,000 people in a rural area northeast of Little Rock. The Animal Control Officer, Threasha, met us at the local police...
Written By: Kate, Events Coordinator On the other side of the state, Group 2 headed east… to West Memphis! And yes, it is west of Memphis, on the western side of the Mississippi River. We met Cassie, an Arkansas foster who volunteers at the West Memphis...
Written By: Kelli Leahy, Home Visit Coordinator “Rescue: It’s not just a verb, it’s a promise.” An amazing day one was in the books!! As I opened my eyes on Friday morning, I had no idea what was in store…what dogs would we meet? Which of our...