12/14/2025
It’s the season of granting wishes. Like the wish of a new home with a forever family. Please read, share, like and help spread the animals Santa letters.
December 13th
Greetings & salutations, Santa!
I'm writing to you to ask a big-big favor, which I know is the same as we wished for last year. My little sister Molly convinced me to write to you - she's soft spoken, and a little nervous asking again, so she figured I would do a better job chatting you up!
Molly and I aren't siblings, but we are a matched pair of best friends, and have been for many years. Beautiful Molly is a 9 year old Akita mix - she is literally like a big, gentle teddy bear, and it seems very hard for people to walk away after hugging her. I am of course a very handsome husky who is 10 years young. We certainly don't show our age! Being "northern breeds" we don't mind the winter cold and snow. You could find us walking on the trails without end (we both walk great on leash), if it weren't for our human friends being ready to return to the warm shelter building. We both enjoy the salon experience of getting brushed out - and we tolerate our friends plucking our errant, fluffy tufts. These humans can't pick without telling us over and over how good of dogs we are, so it's great. We like going into the fenced pen that the people here built for all of us puppers - it is so nice to be free to roam and sniff to our hearts content. I have to say, waiting patiently for our turn to go in is sometimes hard, and it's kind of a bummer when our favorite toys are already slobbered on.
We love our human friends that come to walk & play with us, so much so that we get a bit rambunctious and overjoyed when they come to see us. I am very outgoing, but Molly tends to be shy with new people. I tell ya, though, once she knows you, she hops with happiness! She stays pretty quiet most of the time, but me? Haaa! Besides being a typical howling husky, I am learning how to say, "I Love Youuu" to my friends here. It makes them laugh when I get close to it, so it's nice to bring joy to others. Especially for all the time and loving attention they give us every day.
If you remember, we were once in a home together - we were surrendered to Lakeland Animal Shelter back in January 2024 after being found separately as strays. We still have each other, and our friends here spoil us with long treks, snuggles, scritches, and treats, but it would be really nice to have a new home. A forever home together. We love kids of all ages (once we get to know them), but with both of us being larger dogs, it is probably best to be adopted by a family that has kids as old as us in human years. We get along alright with most of the other dogs here, too, playing in the separate dog runs beside them. We've been on trips to visit people (I think our friends call them "outreaches"), and always do very well with the doggie friends that come along. I guess it would depend on another dog in the home whether we would click, but meets can certainly be set up with the staff here. And then there are cats. Yeah, no thank you. I got in trouble for thinking they were something fun to chase, so I don't want that again.
So Santa, could you check your list once more this year to see if there is anyone that would like to take us into their home for the holidays?
Thank youuu-uuu-uuuu! (that was husky-speak),
Hershey, with Molly
Hershey & Molly came to the shelter as stray that were chipped, owners didn’t come for them.
•10 and 9 years old
•Negative for heart worm
•Microchip
•Neutered/Spayed
•NO CATS
•Have gone out to many events and done well!
•Molly NEEDS Hershey more than Hershey needs Molly -
The last time they came in as strays Molly came in first. For 8 days Molly was miserable. She was sad and depressed. As soon as Hershey walked in as a stray Molly immediately was happy and couldn’t wait to be with her brother again. She has been his follower ever since.
•Calling the shelter her home since January 2024
