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Success Stories

9:49 am

The Friends For Life #FraidyCat Program: One Slow Blink

When we met Genever over a year ago, she was so afraid and defensive that we weren’t sure whether she was feral or not. Typically, it’s better for

Category iconBehavioral Resources,  Shelter Best Practices,  Success Stories,  Unsheltered Tag iconbehavior_training,  community cats

2:49 pm

Stay spicy, Cinnamon.

Caution: The pictures are difficult but we want to share the full story with you. May 18, 2018 #FFLArmy: We need you. Please donate to help

Category iconBlog,  Success Stories

12:19 pm

Maddi Had Faith

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems. Gever Tulley Two truckers on a long-haul

Category iconBlog,  Success Stories Tag iconbehavior_training,  dog

4:03 pm

Bigger than her body gives her credit for

Agatha was part of a litter that we pulled from BARC.  When little Agatha and her siblings arrived at FFL, this tiny little creature made it clear

Category iconBlog,  Success Stories

5:31 pm

Emma, The Velveteen Dog

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But

Category iconBlog,  Success Stories Tag icondog

3:17 am

Harvey Response

On Sunday, August 27, while the storm was still raging and waters were still rising, we were asked to manage the care for animals arriving with

Category iconBehind the Scenes,  Disaster Preparation & Emergency Care,  Shelter Best Practices,  Success Stories,  Unsheltered Tag iconcommunity,  disaster relief

1:25 pm

Old Dogs

By the time a dog has a muzzle as white as Maisie's they've lived to see a lot of things.  You hope the white muzzle represents years of

Category iconBlog,  Success Stories

3:33 pm

Two Seniors. One story. 13 years.

You want to do an extreme sport? Try being over 50. Like Bette Davis said, "Getting old is not for sissies." I remember looking at the brightly

Category iconBlog,  Success Stories

4:09 pm

Start with protecting life. Go from there.

Tarleton looked like he might have just been lying curled up in any cat bed. Except that it had been a bucket of molten roof tar when he first

Category iconBlog,  Shelter Best Practices,  Success Stories,  Unsheltered

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