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…
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…
Excerpt from Who Will Let the Dogs Out: Stories and Solutions for Shelters and Rescues No matter their economic status, the places where they were saving every healthy, adoptable dog and housing them humanely shared three elements in common: leadership,…
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…
Our shelters are in crisis. More dogs have died in 2024 than died in 2023, and many more have spent too long in under-resourced shelters. And, critically, too many dogs have been turned away by intake policies and overwhelmed shelters.…
As we traversed Arkansas on our shelter tour last April, I grew more and more frustrated (read: ANGRY) with the state by the day. I know anger doesn’t help, so I focused on the amazing people we met, including Corinna…