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...
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...