Newspapers Anyone?

 It's that time again . . . the staff is gathering the information, making their list, ordering the paper, stocking up the supplies and getting ready to fold, stamp, sort, glue and stuff the newsletters. Don't forget the ever faithful volunteers who also gather around to help make it all possible!









Woo Hoo. . . can't wait for you to see all the good things that has been happening the last couple of months at the shelter.

Part Two of Heartland Academy Visit

After we read our story, the children from the Heartland Academy talked a little about the animals at the HSSET, we took a tour of the facility. The children were so anxious to see all the animals we have it was difficult for them to wait for their turn to spend with our furry friends.







"Fascinated" seems like such a small word to describe their faces as they looked on at the different animals spread out around the shelter.

It was so much fun to watch how well they handled their time with our animals. They were all very gentle and caring with each of the animals with whom they spent their time.



After everyone had a little time with the animals, they finished off their time at the shelter eating sprinkled cupcakes just like the cat in our book. Needless to say. . . they enjoyed that time as well.

In the Presence of Greatness

Yep, I am here. I finally made it into the presence of greatness. Meet Stephanie. She was voted the employee of the month for April by her co-workers. In this picture I was learning about all the time she (and others) takes in processing and new family's adoption application. Let me tell you . . . it is not taken lightly. No wonder it is so difficult to chose just one employee of the month around the HSSET. There are just too many things everyone does to make it an easy decision.  Next time you are at the HSSET, look for Stephanie, she's either in the pound room or the front or helping a family select a new furry family member or cleaning one of the quarantine rooms or walking a dog, or talking on the phone to a potential family or helping another co-worker or helping . . . or helping . . . or helping . . .

Working Together

Our shelter manager, Carrie May, is not afraid to do whatever is necessary to get the job done! She consistently shows others how team work is a vital part of what makes it all happen at the HSSET.

I Love Making New Friends

Meet my new friends from Heartland Academy. They came to visit the HSSET yesterday and brought bags of food to share with my other friends here at the shelter.

The lucky little girl who let me sit in her lap won the opportunity for sitting quietly waiting for directions.

Audine read the group "If You Give a Cat A Cupcake" by Laura Numeroff. It was a great story and we had fun learning of all the cat's adventures.

In the story, the cat decided if it was going to eat a cupcake it needed sprinkles. So we all had to practice putting sprinkles on our cupcake. That was so much fun as we got our "wiggles" out.


. . . stay tuned. More of this story to follow soon.

A Busy Day at HSSET

On Saturday we had an influx of wonderful visitors. Our friends from Trinity United Methodist Church visited us.

 The group spent some time learning about the history of the HSSET, learning how we care for our animals, how adoptions work and then volunteered spending time with our special animals friends.

 We love when our volunteers are able to come and spend time with our dogs and cats. Although we all try to spend time with animals, we are not able to give the individual attention our sweet animals need on a daily basis.

The church is also in the middle of an animal food drive which will culminate next weekend and we will once again have an opportunity to touched by this group once again when they gift that collection to the shelter.

A Note From Loopy - Doing My Part

The staff are really busy doing their daily chores as well as helping with the new groups and tours, showing around potential adoptive families and helping work with new volunteers. So, I decided to I would help with the paperwork involved in working with my bigger animal friends in shelter. 

Here I am at Brittany's desk in the back to begin the tasks. The only problem, I can't reach the desk. Hmmm... I am not sure what I was thinking. I can't even type my own blog! Geesh! Well, at least I can love... oh yes, as you can see, I am pretty good at letting others know what is going on behind the scenes. Stay tuned, I am sure I will have some new information coming this week just to help you all know why we do some of the things we do at the HSSET.

A Birthday Surprise for Us!

Grace shared her toys
 with one of the cats. 

Meet Grace. 

Grace chose to celebrate her 8th Birthday a little differently this year. Instead of sharing what people could get her for her birthday, she asked everyone to give money she could then share animals that are unable to care for themselves.

 Grace chose two different animal organizations. We are thankful that Grace chose the HSSET to be one of those (she also gave to a wildlife organization).

A very Special Young Lady!

 Grace visited us Saturday with an armful of toys and a gift card from Pet Smart of which all totaled close to $100.00. We appreciate the selflessness of Grace and her friends for sharing with our furry friends something so special!