Lakeisha Ethans

Buster is a shelter dog who happily lives there. He has made peace with his home and has a family of a lot of volunteers and staff. Buster arrived at the North Fork Animal Welfare League as an eight-month-old puppy back in 2011 and no one has ever shown interest in taking the pit bull mix home. Continue reading this post on the Next Page

When asked about the adoption application she got for Apollo, Nancy Hutchinson still cries tears of joy. She said “after two years, this is the one. I was just overwhelmed with emotions…I love that cat.” Hutchinson is the president and founder of Michigan Cat Rescue and had been fostering Apollo ever since she pulled him from a kill shelter. Every day that Apollo was with her, it seemed as though he would never get adopted. Apollo had a minor problem that was keeping away prospective families. Continue reading this post on the Next Page…

Peter Cohen is a contractor who shares his gorgeous home with twenty-two rescue cats in Santa Barbara, California. Cohen decided to turn his home into an indoor cat’s dream and built walkways high up on his walls, sun stations near the skylights, portholes for travelling room to room, and a ton of private nooks and crannies for the cats to hide in. When Cohen bought the house in 1988, there were two cats living there called The Gray One and The Black One who were hit by a car so Cohen decided to keep his cats indoors. Continue reading this post on the Next Page…

Beefcakes has come a long way from when he first arrived at the Longmont Humane Society with a gunshot wound to his head. His badly broken jaw had to have multiple surgeries. A caregiver kept a journal for Beefcakes and logged all his surgeries. After they were all done, the journal started to read a little different and began to show the spirit of an unbreakable heart. Beefcakes became a famous dog after his gunshot wound at close range and then went on to become a lovable dog who found a home quickly. Continue reading this post on the Next Page

The Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARL-Iowa) got together with a local shelter and donated a Tree of Life. The Tree of Life program brings pet supplies, food, and toys into shelters to help the animals placed within it. They placed tons of supplies underneath a gigantic Christmas tree at the shelter. Animal were then brought out one at a time to select their present from the piles. Continue reading this story on the Next Page!

Santa is a Christmas staple and something that kids look forward to every year. Lines form at every Santa station with parents and their little ones waiting patiently, or impatiently, to have a chance to sit on the big guy’s lap and tell him all of their wishes. Of all of the Christmas traditions, this is one of the most favored by children everywhere. It turns out that even dogs can’t wait to visit the man in the big red suit. Continue reading this post on the Next Page!