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…
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…
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…
Last October, Nancy and I gathered with 75 animal shelter and rescue staff, volunteers, and advocates at a community center in Radcliff, Kentucky for the first Stronger Together Retreat . We listened as one person after another expressed how exhausted…
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…
Something magical happened when we visited STAR – Saving the Animals of Rowan in Rowan County, Kentucky, close to the Ohio border. It’s only happened on one other of the 150+ shelter visits we’ve made. (And maybe this won’t seem…
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…
If we had visited the Harrison County Flora Shropshire Animal Shelter in Cynthiana, Kentucky, a year ago, we might have heard a very different story. A change of administration under Judge Executive Jason Marshall and the hiring of co-managers Jessica…
Hart County Animal Shelter has a positive energy, a plan for the future, and a staff with (okay, I’m gonna go for the hokey here) — heart. That was clear from the moment I heard from their key volunteer Devon,…