We Like Big Mutts!

For about a year and a half after my grandmother’s blue heeler Foxy had passed away, we all tried to convince her to rescue another dog, so she would always have company. But no dog was ever going to measure up to Foxy, and Granny was adamant about not getting...

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...

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...

Lacy J.: A Feline Survival Story

This sometimes happens in rescue–you look at an animal and just aren’t sure what’s happened to him/her. When we first got the call on Lacy J. we thought she had been hit by a car. When we picked her up and took her to the vet, we initially thought she must have been...

Tess and the Four Little Orphans

Lizzie, a pregnant feral cat in a colony threatened with poisoning, was brought to Holly’s Place because she needed a safe home to have her kittens. She gave birth to four healthy babies just as we learned of four orphaned kittens in need of a nursing mother. We gave...