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...
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...
We worked at 3 shelters today, so be sure to read all the PAWesome entries! Stuttgart Animal Shelter By: Lindsay LaRocca Board Member, volunteer, adopter, and foster mom My eyelids fluttered open on Saturday morning at 5:15am. Bright eyed and bushy tailed, I lay in my bed eagerly awaiting my alarm clock to...
By: Jill Monahan, Board Member, Foster & Social Media Coordinator, and foster mom When I first visited Bald Knob Animal Shelter back in 2013, I experienced a sort of culture shock. We were told stories of teenagers pouring vodka down a puppy's throat and placing him in the road...
By: Fiona Gerety Volunteer, adopter, and foster mom It’s still dark out when our alarms go off. Exhausted from traveling and our first day at the West Memphis shelter, we pile into a large van and drive sleepy-eyed to Pine Bluff Animal Control Center. There is a different mood...
By: Jessica Teng Volunteer, adopter, and foster mom Bright and early this morning, we started off the trip with a bang at our weekly transport, where we send dogs in Arkansas foster homes on the rescue road to Boston to find their furever families! It is both a...
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...