Alice

Hi Linda, On October 16th this year we adopted a little dog who HSOY called Buttons, we now call her Alice and she now knows her name as that. She had been in the kennel for about three weeks when we arrived. Why no-one had claimed her we do not know, except she was meant for us. What a dog!

She was a stray so we didn't know to expect anything but this dog was a joy from the beginning. She does not bark except when greatly provoked, she goes all nite under our bed and has never messed in the house once. She eats Science Diet and loves Dog Bones for treats.

We do walk her daily for our exercise and she is more courteous than most dogs on leash out there. In other words, she is Great!! Not by our doing, but are we happy. Also she is gentle and sweet spirited with my 98 years old father who lives with us. She is all and more that we had hoped for and she seems very happy with us and our livestyle. Thank you for keeping her for us.

Very sincerely,
David Keller
PS. Yes, you may use this as an endorsement of HSOY!

Tybalt and Evey

Hello! My name is Katie... here are the pictures as promised. The tortoiseshell is Evey, our 5-month-old rescue, and the black cat is Tybalt, who is actually a Humane Society rescue from about 5 years ago! Thank you so much for the wonderful job you do to help save the loving animals in Yuma!

Ollie, the HSOY thrift shop mascot.

I thought that you might like to see a photo of two of our shelter adoptees and our son relaxing! The small black dog was called "Blackie" we named him Ollie and we adopted him last November.
He was the mascot dog for the opening of the thrift shop at the swap meet. We had recently lost our beloved 10 year old lab and were still missing him SO not in the mind frame to adopt a pet. However Ollie bonded with My husband and I at the swap meet even though we tried to keep our distance. Later that day with thoughts of that little black dog nagging at me I picked up our 2 kids from school and Raymond ( in the picture) started saying "I know we all miss Rufie but surely we have room on another dog especially since Ms. Elkie brought the neatest little black dog to our school assembly today." I called Elkie and said "we want that little dog". He is the cutesiest thing with the most personality and moved right in. Then in July(2008) one week before we went out of town for a week Elkie phoned and asked us if we were still missing a "big dog" in our lives. I said yes, so we left the town thrift shop where we were helping to set up- went right down to the shelter to meet Lucas- the golden retriever in the photo. The whole way over to the shelter my husband was saying " now you know this isn't the greatest timing- right?" Well Lucas moved in, settled in, adapted to the pet sitter we had hired and has become more entrenched in our lives since July. The little tan dog was "re -homed" from a neighbour- she was used to being part of a pack and is much happier since we adopted her two buddies. The dogs are kept company by 3 indoor cats ( one a shelter pet, the other two were side of the road foundlings) and our bird. As you can see there is a reason my furniture is shabby- AND dark colored!



Kimberley Dierdorf