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by Jill
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...
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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...
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by Jill
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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by Jill
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...
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by Jill
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...
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by Jill
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...
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Service Trip
by Jill
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...