For those of you considering adopting from CAHS in Lansing from this weeks transport, here is a video of the two fosters who lived in our home with us - Major (black/tan) and Rizzo (golden). They are both fabulous boys - sweet, affectionate, good in the house, play with only their toys, walk on leash with collar or harness, and love other dogs. They were both good with my two cats and sleep through the night as well. They are both around 40 pounds, but Major will get bigger as he is only 4-months old!
Blizzard (white) and Mabel (white/black) were leaving this morning on transport headed to CAHS, so we made sure they got up and played early (5:30 AM) before loading. They had a ball with Stella Rose (black) and Clifford (Red). Clifford will also be headed to CAHS next week now that he’s had 2 months to heal from his FHO surgery and his vet said he’s healing very well.
Remember the shelter’s momma kitty, Weave, who had 4 kittens I was fostering for the last few months? Here are her sweet kittens growing up fast! They (and she) are thriving, enjoying playing, and doing all things kitten fun. Every morning while I clean up, they hang out in their hammock while their momma gets her canned food. They are a joy!
Sweet Stella Rose had 9 puppies last night in the shelter. We made room for her and her pups today so they could have a warm and quiet place to nurse and grow. Momma will get outside time (and time on the couch!) as she wants it. Mom has been excellent about my handling her puppies and really excellent with my dogs, too. Hardin County Animal Services Tennessee
Twenty-Six of our babies loaded and headed out to Michigan this morning! Safe travels to everyone.
Capital Area Humane Society came in the snow and left with 35 dogs/pups in the snow. They said it felt like home! ❄️ Safe travels!
This is my fenced back yard where my personal dogs play with my adult fosters. Today it’s in the deep snow for short bursts to break up the monotony of being inside and to use up some energy. Baby Girl (smallest dog) and Marley (young male black lab mix) will be leaving to tomorrow (1/18/24) for Lansing and CAHS for adoption there.
Good snowy MLK Holiday morning!
This morning at 5 am we loaded up 29 beautiful cats and kittens onto the HSHV Love Train headed back to Michigan despite the snow! ❄️ ⛄️
These 29 felines come from our local shelter (Hardin County Animal Services), Hawkinson Cat Rescue, and The Kitten Cabin Rescue. Billy and I have had a litter of kittens and several of the adults in foster at our home for a few weeks. We at HARTT coordinate the transport, provide vaccines/flea and tick prevention and health certificates then get everyone tested for FELV before transport. We then hold them in their transport crates (with their hammocks thanks to @wandafranks) overnight for early morning loading onto HSHV’s transport van driven by their employees (thanks to both of them!). Safe travels to all of them.
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Update on pups from yesterday - they all made it through the night and are eating well. Thanks for the puppy replacement milk - they love it!
Tomorrow we will be sending out 30 puppies that we’ve been holding for about two months but I wanted to share with you one of the things we’ve been doing in the meantime and some successes. I’ve had a litter of kittens for about two months as well and we were able to get one of them fixed and off to a home last week This week, the remaining five gained two friends who needed to get out of the shelter and into a more normalized situation before they go up for adoption. And under 12 hours the two new kittens came out of their hiding box and ate canned/wet food with my five babies I’m very hopeful for these two that this normalize situation will bring them out of their shells.
Great news y’all, we are still here saving lives and helping people despite having been in a “holding pattern” for a month or so. If you didn’t know, the last two Love Train transports canceled (that’s 60-90 animals who didn’t leave!), but we have been assured that the next one (September 20th) is a GO!
What did that mean to have transports canceled? It meant we held the puppies we had for as long as two months (our normal hold time is around 2-3 weeks!). It meant cost for food/preventative medications increased. It meant that puppies needed more toys and more distractions as they grew up in puppy pens and kennels - many outgrowing their pens and needing to be moved to larger kennels. So we closed to intake as we had no idea how long we would have to hold them and how much room we would need to provide as they continued to grow. We are not here to warehouse animals. If you are not in the animal welfare world, you might not know just how hard this past 6-months to a year has been. According to national data, the volume of animals coming into shelters and rescues has been well more than the number leaving those shelters/rescues. We hope this trend is slowing and more adoptions will be forthcoming! During this time, we have continued to help our local area - fostering kittens, running kitten adoption events, and helping out where needed with the shelter’s animals. We have a dog and her nursing puppies here that Billy and I are providing “safe harbor” for a few weeks as her dad (who adores her) gets his new job started, waits for his dog-friendly housing to open up for move-in as he had no good options for her and couldn’t afford boarding prices! We have also approved low-cost surgeries for over 400 animals last month through our HARTT Low-cost Spay/Neuter program!!
With the news that 30 of our babies will finally get to leave, we are back to doing modified intakes - we will vaccinate and deworm pups in-place, but the owner holds them
And..we finally arrive at the final destination for the night - puppy room where they stay awaiting Thursday spay/neuter surgeries! Sweet little Dakota and his friends will be available for adoption Friday at 11 am!
