It’s been six years since I last visited this animal shelter in Tennessee, the Huntingdon Dog Pound. That was the day I found my darling pup, Miss Fanny Wiggles. She was emaciated and covered in poop. Now, she is a…
The story at Maury County Animal Services in Columbia Tennessee, just southwest of Nashville is volunteers. Led by their new director, Kim, who started out as a volunteer at MCAS herself, they have transformed the shelter. Kim has been the…
Adam, the ACO/dog warden/shelter director (and part-time deputy at the jail), just might be the most resourceful director in Kentucky. We visited Montgomery County Animal Shelter in Mount Sterling, Kentucky in fall of 2024. Adam has been the director for…
Our first stop on our March 2025 shelter tour was the Danville Area Humane Society Virginia. About an hour from Greensboro, North Carolina, Danville is a large, open-intake shelter on the southside of Virginia in the hometown of my alma…
Robertson County KY Animal Shelter is a tiny municipal shelter located in the tiny rural town of Mt Olivet, Kentucky. We visited the shelter in the fall of 2024. It’s a special place where dogs are saved by remarkable people…
We just returned from two weeks of touring local animal shelters and rescues in four states. This tour was different from the dozens we’ve done (nearing 175 shelter visits now) because at almost every stop we heard about the damaging…
John has been the shelter director and ACO for Pendleton County (KY) Animal Shelter for seven and a half years. When he retired after 22 years as a Firefighter/paramedic, his wife Bonnie told him he needed to find something to…
Mercer County Animal Control Center Kentucky was full when we visited (like every other shelter we’ve visited in the last year), but only a handful of those dogs are adoptable. That’s because the shelter took in thirty dogs seized in…
Our first stop in Kentucky was at Leslie County Animal Shelter. Like many municipal shelters, it was located right next to the waste transfer station and the jail. The building is a simple concrete one that houses the staff, medical…
Bracken County is a no-stop-light county in northern Kentucky, not too far from Ohio. The Bracken County Animal Shelter is a simple metal building with 14 kennels and a tiny office/storage area. It may not look like much, but Heather…