Hollis: Another Miracle Dog

Saturday, February 15th, much of central KY was hit with an ice storm that paralyzed the region for days. By Tuesday, the ice still had not melted and many people were without power. It was lucky for Hollis that school had been called off. Children who were out...

Gunner’s Miracle

Gunner kisses Sam, his blood donor dog; Gunner plays with Forrest, another 3-legged pitbull; Gunner after surgery Gunner’s second year on this earth ended far better than it began. Not long ago, this sweet Pit Bull was cruelly shot in the chest and left to die....

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...

Detroit, MI Students Spend Spring Break with us

They arrived in a van the first Monday morning of spring break. There were nine of them in all, college students from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. They ranged from freshmen to seniors, education majors to pre-med students. The one thing they all had in...

Elby the kitten & Lady the dog

In August of 2002 someone callously dropped a very young kitten outside the local shelter. Elby was not yet weaned and needed to be bottle-fed. We took Elby into foster care and although we have to do the hand-feeding, it is Lady who is the primary caretaker. Lady is...