HARTT - Hardin Animal Relocation and Transition Team

01/07/2025

Our mornings started early around 5 am to have everyone here and the barn warmed up to load transport at 6 am. We loaded all 43 animals (7 adults and 26 pups) in 50 minutes and had CAHS’ Julia headed north just before 7 am! We know the roads might be a bit slick headed to Michigan but we know the road departments in all those states have been busy so she should have better driving conditions. Safe travels to all and new homes are in your futures very soon! Thanks again, CAHS!

01/06/2025

We begin the first week of January 2025 currently holding 13 adults and 146 puppies in our care in only 7 foster homes (some with only an adult or two and some with “only” a big litter). So, as you might imagine, we are looking forward to seeing CAHS pull in this Tuesday morning to pick up 7 adults and 36 puppies and we are already planning the HSHV Love Train for the following week. Of course, there are other litters we have put basic shots and deworming in that are waiting out at their finder’s/owners homes for us to take in. Not to mention the number of requests for help taking in more litters and adults. There was a time when winter was less impacted in the way of puppies in need of homes, but that has long passed is by. Please share spaytennesseee.org to find a Tennessee low-cost clinic or spay/Neuter program near you!

Photo of the 10 puppies we took in from a family in Wayne County working with our partners, Country Roads Animal Rescue. This is mom’s third and last litter as she will be spayed Friday!!

12/18/2024

Last transport out of our rescue for 2024 is in the books! Thanks to the team at HSHV and Krista (and various HSHV staff and volunteers who travel with her) who faithfully drives their LOVE TRAIN! van down every two weeks all year to give our babies a chance at loving homes in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area!

Today a group of 29 left our doors making for 907 animals transported out of Tennessee to Michigan this year alone! We want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year from us at HARTT Rescue!

12/10/2024

Happy Holidays to the crew from Capital Area Humane Society this morning for the last trip back to Lansing loaded with this adorable group of adults and puppies! We can’t thank them enough for all they do to help find homes for all of these deserving canines!

12/08/2024

As most of you know, rescue is always a revolving door for the animals in our care. If they are lucky, we can take them in, get them vaccinated and healthy and get them through here in three weeks. This allows for more to come in as those leave for Michigan. For those who saw Lucky who got to live with us in our home and left last week. I wanted to let you know she got adopted on Friday! To fill her honored spot, we just took in another cutie.

Meet Deputy Dog! This 4-month old 28-pound bulldog mix with an adorable underbite was at the Decatur County Sheriff's Office here in Tennessee and needed a rescue once he passed his stray hold. Although Billy initially said, “where’s he going; in the kennels?” Deputy has since wiggled his way into being our latest house puppy 🤣🤷‍♀️. I may have suggested that would be good for him since the inmates had been playing with him and he was used to human attention daily 🙂.

12/04/2024

THANK YOU! We are humbled by the generous support we received on Giving Tuesday this year - thanks to you all! Believe us, it will be put to good use in helping the pets and their people in our community.

12/04/2024

Please submit your volunteer/adoption/foster dates (they don’t have to be directly for us) and help our rescue win this grant!

The info you will need for us is:

Hardin Animal Relocation & Transition Team
Savannah, TN
HARTTRescue.org
[email protected]
We far exceed the requirements to be “no-kill”

MuttNation is giving back to YOU this Giving Tuesday!

Register Here: muttnation.com/sharethelove

12/04/2024

Lucky is special so she gets her very own post…Billy and I will miss her as we love her, but we know there is someone very special in Michigan who needs this darling girl more than we do. May God bless all of our babies as they look for their forever families!

12/04/2024

Leaving our doors for the first of three scheduled transports out to Michigan this last month of 2024.

…26 beautiful babies. Thank you to Krista and Laura for making the trip down in the HSHV Love Train to get these deserving pups! Check in Tuesday for the ones leaving for CAHS next week.

12/04/2024

Last day to play with her Auntie Blondie and Auntie Daisy. Lucky is taking advantage of it!

12/03/2024

Ready to take on the world now…Lucky puppy!

12/03/2024

Tomorrow this sweet girl will leave our doors for HSHV in Ann Arbor, MI after a month here. Lucky arrived scared, afraid of being picked up, mainly desirous of sleeping and just being left alone. She was dirty and unsure of the world around her. Those attributes are not normal for a puppy if her age! The people who had found her along a rural roadside and taken her in but they quickly knew something wasn’t right with her and asked for our help. Upon getting her, Karen immediately noticed she was at best hard of hearing if not deaf 🧏‍♀️ but would sit in her crate and howl when she wasn’t sleeping. After one night at Karen’s Billy and I took her to our home where she got a good bath 🛁 , extra chances to decompress, necessary medications and vaccinations, and got good food (thanks to those who have donated canned puppy food!). After a few days of quarantine, she and her stuffed bear moved in with our crew at our home. She started out slow, but has really blossomed here with her “aunties” Dixie and Blondie and “uncle” Sylvester! I cried the first time she decided to play with Dixie…and again when she started acting like a normal puppy chewing on things, playing with toys, begging for food. She thinks everyone should share their food and eats well (takes meds with her little bit of whipped cream like a champ, too!). Tomorrow morning we will be sad to see her go, but will be so proud of what we do here to let her build confidence and know love and safety to help her journey! Thank you to HSHV for taking her and to whomever adopts her! We love you Lucky girl!

If you are the lucky one to adopt this special girl, please reach out as we would love to continue to follow her journey from abandoned to adored.

🐾❤️🐾❤️🐾❤️

12/02/2024

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday and Luna Skye wanted to remind everyone to donate to our local rescue and spay/neuter programs here in rural west Tennessee!

11/13/2024

Happy HSHV LOVE TRAIN Transport day to these adorable babies! Safe travels to Krista and Margaret back to Ann Arbor, Michigan today with these precious lives.

11/05/2024

Happy trails to all of our sweet doggies headed your way Michigan today for adoption through Capital Area Humane Society in Lansing, MI. If you are looking for adult dogs, you can’t find better ones than Cotton, Yuki, Cobweb, Harry, Matilda or Tiffany we were asked to take from Hardin County citizens and pulled our county’s shelter or Justice and Julian from Country Roads Animal Rescue. Be sure to ask CAHS about those gorgeous adults (and, of course, the puppies!).