10/01/2025
This is going to be a different sort of post than I have ever done before, and to be honest, I don’t quite know where to start. Hmm??? Those of you that have been following my page for a long time know that when my Mama retired in 2005, she began volunteering full-time at the Chippewa County Animal Shelter in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. That’s where I was born and where my cat brother, Charles, and my dog sisters, Prin and Sugar, were adopted from. In 2010 I joined the family and went fulltime r.v.ing with Mama, Dad, and my furry brother and sisters. During Mama and Dad’s travels we settled down in Walsenburg, Colorado, which is in Huerfano County. It was obvious right away that there was an overpopulation of homeless cats. There weren’t any cat ordinances and the tiny animal shelter in Walsenburg only served as an impound facility for dogs. During the 5 years that we lived on the outskirts of Walsenburg our current fur family found their way to Mama and Dad seeking help. Because Mama and Dad couldn’t turn a blind eye to the neediness of the homeless animals, they decided that they really needed to move away from Huerfano County, Colorado or they would quickly be operating an animal shelter of their own. We now live in Kerrville, Texas, but Mama is still very connected to the animal situation in southern Colorado and especially the Walsenburg Animal Shelter. She is working closely with the person managing the shelter to get the word out about the shelter’s needs and the dogs that are available for adoption. She does this for other area shelters, too, through her FB called, Huerfano County Pet Network: https://www.facebook.com/HuerfanoCountyPetNetwork. Mama says if she ever gets rich, she will build Huerfano County a shelter that can serve all the area animal’s needs. For now, the shelter is a tiny impound facility for dogs with only 4 indoor kennels and 3 outdoor ones. The shelter is operating as a no-kill facility that adopts out the dogs they take in or transfers them to large public no-kill shelters. This well written post by the Walsenburg Animal Shelter is sharing how you can help defray the medical costs of dogs in their care. You might want to follow the Walsenburg Animal Shelter FB page, where you can see the supplies they have listed on an Amazon wish list, and the medical needs of particular dogs and the happy tales of their adoptions. As Mama says, “You don’t have to be local to help animals in need.” Thanks for listening!
