Tucker Finds His Way

At some point, I think you are supposed to become immune to puppy love. We thought we’d hit that curve long ago. But Christmas week three puppies were brought to our local shelter. There were two black and white ones, cute enough. But the third was this beautiful...

Hannah Gets Stuck in Traffic

What’s wrong with this picture? A cat sitting in the middle of five lanes of traffic at a major intersection on Hwy 127 in Lawrenceburg. And no, she wasn’t in the median. Hannah was sitting in the left-hand turn lane! Thankfully a woman in a van noticed...

Harley: Hear No Evil

Harley has overcome some odds for sure. He was apparently born deaf and ended up in the Grant Co. shelter. Luckily, workers at the shelter saw a lot of potential in Harley, and we were asked to take him. Here, he learned to obey hand signals, and acted as any other...

Bobby Bear

We know Bobby Bear had a good home at some point. He was clean, well-adjusted, and already house trained when he came to us. But the 3 year old retriever mix, who was brought into the local shelter as a “stray,” never was claimed. We could immediately see...

Jackson: A Cat with Sense

When Banfield Pet Hospital in Lexington asked us to take a blind cat, we were willing, but also somewhat apprehensive. We’ve never had a blind cat in foster care before, and because the cats in our program do not live in cages, we were uncertain how to go about...

Sweet Georgia

Sweet, sweet Georgia. This gorgeous but extremely shy and timid chow chow came to Holly’s Place after having been abandoned to live in a field with a bag of food dumped out for her every now and then to share with another dog. She was scared of everything; the TV, the...