News — Hope

  • Two souls helping each other on their way

    · By Charles Hawley

    "5 years ago today, we heard a big ‘WOOF!’ come from the living room. Our 110 lb, elderly Great Pyrenees, Jojo, had just come home a few days earlier from a surgery to have part of his paw removed to try and stop a cancer that was spreading. It turned out that surgery wasn’t going to stop the cancer so he was basically on hospice.
    We also had just found a 5 week old kitten that someone had covered in glue and stuck to a road. Two very different kinds of patients with two very different issues in our make shift animal hospital.
    Hearing that ‘WOOF!’ we realized the kitten wasn’t with us and went running to the living room, not sure of what we would find. This is what we found..."

  • Chester P. McNubbins!

    · By Charles Hawley

    From Cats Find You; 2nd Edition - From the Chapter; Sticky - The man himself Out of all the things that foundation has done, this is Mikee's favorite: One of the emergency vet clinics in Portland called one afternoon and said they had a Boxer that needed to have its leg amputated. The fee was going to be enormous. If they couldn't get the fee, there was a good chance he would be put down. Mikee called me and told me I needed to make the hour drive to Portland and pick up this 'Boxer'. She didn't know what we...