Jack's Doghouse

25/11/2024

If you're looking to adopt, please check out these beautiful pups and give them the gift of a furever home for the holidays!

24/11/2024

Congratulations to our sweet Chance for finding his furever family❣️ His new family is exactly what we hoped for him! Chance will now live his best life as a 'soccer dog', hanging out at the fields with his new mom watching his three brothers at games and practices. This active family is the perfect family for our Charming Chance❣️
We are so blessed to have been a part of Chance's journey to find his new furever family! 🥰 What an amazing life this little guy is going to have!!!

24/11/2024

Beautiful Birdie is looking for her furever family❣️ This sweet girl loves her toys and treats, giving hugs and kisses and is just an overall friendly gal. She enjoys playing with her all of her new friends, especially Pepper, our black lab, and always has a smile on her face when she gets to see them every morning to play.😍 Birdie enjoys cuddling up in a blanket, swimming in her puppy pool, going for walks and just hanging out. She would love to find a furever family who would enjoy hanging out with her so she can cuddle up next to them and show them what a good girl she is.🥰 Birdie is spayed, up-to-date on vaccinations and prevention, crate trained and potty trained.
We would love to set up a meet and greet for you to meet our sweet Birdie and see what a great gal she is. If you are interested in meeting Birdie, please fill out an adoption application so we can work on making an unconditional love connection❣️
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ilu165uLTqrGZ4uUzQ7SCOLo0x49362x2BKYnNAVnSo

24/11/2024

Handsome River is looking for his furever family❣️ He loves to play with his friends, give kisses and hugs, loves toys and treats and really likes to help you clean his kennel. This fun-loving guy LOVES water❣️ He loves to swim in his puppy pool, play in the sprinkler and drink out of the hose. River won us over the moment we met him in his kennel at the shelter! His silly self continues to bring us joy every day!🥰He is such a sweet and gentle fella who loves going for walks, playing with all of his friends, cuddling with his human or dog friend and is happy to just hang out with whoever is around. He was such a good boy during his social outing to a festival with his foster mom, where he met many new friends and showed off his good boy behavior.😍 River would love a furever family to go walking, swimming, hiking or just hang out with. He is a short-haired pointer, neutered, up-to-date on his vaccinations and prevention, kennel trained and potty trained.
We would love to set up a meet and greet for you to meet handsome River and see his happiness and good boy behavior in person. If you are interested in meeting River, please fill out an adoption application so we can work on making an unconditional love connection❣️
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ilu165uLTqrGZ4uUzQ7SCOLo0x49362x2BKYnNAVnSo

23/11/2024

We don’t understand why sweet Zoey hasn’t been adopted yet. She is such a joyful girl who would love to be your walking partner, play fetch, cuddle with and be your faithful companion.😍 She LOVES playing in the water and chasing the sprinkler, going for walks and playing with all of her friends. This sweet girl loves everyone she meets and we mean EVERYONE❣️ Zoey is always the first dog to greet the new fosters we introduce and she does it in such a sweet and gentle way. She is a beautiful girl with a beautiful personality to match.🥰 Zoey has been very well behaved on her trips to the vet and has showed off her sweet side at social outings where she met many new friends. Zoey would be a great addition to any family with her easy going personality. She is a Labrador retriever mix, spayed, up-to-date on vaccinations and prevention, kennel trained and potty trained.
We would love to set up a meet and greet for you to meet sweet Zoey and she how wonderful she is in person. If you are interested in meeting Zoey, please fill out an adoption application so we can work on making an unconditional love connection.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ilu165uLTqrGZ4uUzQ7SCOLo0x49362x2BKYnNAVnSo

23/11/2024

Sweet Lilah is a little shy when you first meet her, but warms up very quickly and becomes the most loving and loyal companion. 🥰 This beautiful girl loves going for walks and exploring the great outdoors. She gets along great with our cats and loves to play with her all of her dog friends, especially her best friend, Princess. This sweet girl is both beautiful on the outside and inside. Lilah would be a great addition to any family looking to add a furry baby.🩷 She is spayed, up-to-date on her vaccinations and preventions, crate trained and potty trained.
We would love to set up a meet and greet for you to meet our sweet Lilah and see her beautiful self in person. If you are interested in meeting Lilah, please fill out an adoption application so we can work on making an unconditional love connection❣️
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ilu165uLTqrGZ4uUzQ7SCOLo0x49362x2BKYnNAVnSo

19/11/2024

19/11/2024

Members of our Criminal Investigation Division converged on the Animal Shelter this morning for a friendly photo shoot. And man, it resulted in such a pulchritudinous picture.

Detective Young is pictured with Dalia, an Australian Shepherd mix. Criminalist Sharpley had Glacier, a white German Shepherd mix. While Detective Halter is holding Brudda, a Husky mix. These are some good looking pups!

As always, if you’re looking to adopt your family’s next best friend, come visit the Sherman Animal Shelter. There are so many friendly faces looking for a home!

12/11/2024

Congratulations Hershey! This guy is amazing! We are so happy others see just how amazing this big guy is!!!

Hi Northwoods Team,

I know I already provided an update on Hershey a few months ago, but I thought you guys would like to know that Hershey won Dog of the Month at our local coffee shop! He is such a good boy and we love him so much!

12/11/2024

10/11/2024

Under-talked about part of rescue….

The biggest thing no one could have prepared me for getting into rescue is the constant guilt.

Guilt for the dogs you can’t help. For walking out of a shelter with one dog and passing by a line of others just as deserving practically screaming help me. For that litter of puppies you got an email about, likely to be dumped and face a life of suffering because as so many other, we are full and have no where for them to go.

Guilt for having to tell people sometimes in the lowest points of their lives that you can’t help. For the good citizen trying to help a stray in an area without an animal shelter. For the overworked animal control staff pleading in your inbox. For simply not having the physical space, fosters, or funds to help and having to relay the bad news time and time again.

Guilt for the dogs you were too late to save. For looking in their eyes laying on that vet floor and know they never got to experience the life they deserved. For the dog in heart failure or puppies with parvo, too far gone to save. For knowing they very well may be leaving this world having only known suffering.

Guilt for missing a thank you to a donor or not saying thank you enough. For them not knowing how much you truly appreciate them and couldn’t be more grateful, but in the midst of all things rescue, you haven’t had a chance to get that thank you note out.

Guilt for always feeling like the time you spend with dogs isn’t enough. For having vet appointments, meet and greets, rescue missions that go longer than expected and cut into your time with them.

Guilt for having your own aging dogs at home who so much irreplaceable time with is given up. For watching, or missing watching, them age before your eyes because rescue takes over. For how much they have to share, cope and adjust to meet the needs of the constant revolving door of fosters.

Guilt for the mountain of emails and messages that go without a response because there’s simply only so much time in a day. For some messages going unopened because the subject line alone is enough to tell your empty tank at the end of a heartbreaking day, your heart literally could not bare it right now.

Guilt for taking a moment to do anything other than rescue knowing there’s that inbox full of unopened messages waiting, dog to walk, kennels to clean, appointments to schedule, so. much. paperwork. to do, the list goes on….

Guilt for not always immediately replying to foster or adopter texts because your hands are full of p**p covered puppies, in the middle of a rescue mission or other. For them not knowing you really did glance at the text on your watch to make sure it wasn’t an emergency, told yourself you’d reply as soon as you finished, but end up forgetting for a couple hours.

Guilt for being absent from family and friends, missing events, celebrations, time together. For holidays turning into some of the only times you spend together, and even then, there‘s always a good chance a rescue emergency will interfere then too.

Guilt for your own spouse at home getting whatever is left in your empty tank at the end of the day. For gracefully dealing with all the new dogs to show up out of the blue, jumping in to help get them set up. For the messy house, for the garage and spare bedrooms turning into storage rooms for supplies.

For me personally, it is the guilt.

I know I can’t be the only one either.

Be kind to your small rescues. Chances are… behind that rescue name and fancy licensing is just a single person or couple person team doing they best they can — and carrying an overwhelming amount of guilt already.

-Heather

10/11/2024

Dogs truly are a blessing!!!

10/11/2024

We’re going to blow your minds and share an Animal Shelter-related post that’s not on a Friday.

Asst. Chief Emmons was seen yesterday hobnobbing with a pretty pup named Rosie. Rosie came to the shelter in mid-October as a stray. She is a Beagle mix and is super sociable and friendly.

If you’re interested in adopting Rosie or any of her friends, come visit the Sherman Animal Shelter at 1800 East Ida Road.

09/11/2024

Charming Chance is looking for his furever family.😍 This sweet boy loves to play with his friends and toys, go for walks and just hang out and enjoy life. Chance has a big personality inside his 35 lbs body that always puts a smile on your face.🥰 This happy-go-lucky boy would love to have his own family he can share his happiness with, go for walks and play with! Chance is such an affectionate and loveable guy and would be a great addition to any family. His sweet smile is such a joy to wake up to or to come home from work to❣️ Chance is a Border Collie mix, neutered and up-to-date on vaccinations and prevention. We would love to set up a meet and greet so you can see this sweet boy in person and feel his happy energy! 🥰
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ilu165uLTqrGZ4uUzQ7SCOLo0x49362x2BKYnNAVnSo

08/11/2024

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