Our shelter has countless reasons to be thankful this year! We're wishing our absolutely amazing supporters a Happy Thanksgiving!

And to all our adopters - thank you for helping save lives with us this year - you make all the difference! Here are some adoption smiles from the last few weeks (see more photos on our Facebook page!) ❤️

Reminder we are closed to the public today and tomorrow, reopening on Saturday! #happythanksgiving⁠⁠

#givingtuesday is only 1 week away, and we need he $#givingtuesday is only 1 week away, and we need help getting our #showusyourbones campaign to our $60,000 goal ($25,000 of which we have a matching donor for!)! If you can help, your donation will be DOUBLED, and will help care for our animals in need, just like Castiel. Castiel came to us in a unique, and heartbreaking way. But his story is one to be shared as it not only highlights the importance of the much-needed X-Ray room we are raising funds for, but also the resilience of shelter animals. On June 17th at around 11pm, one of our staff was awoken by a call from Ottawa County Dispatch. They had been called out on an animal cruelty case and had an injured dog in their custody, who was limping and bleeding from a head wound. The story we were told was that neighbors heard the dog in distress and called the police. We were concerned that his leg might be broken, so we authorized the Sheriff’s Deputy to bring him to Blue Pearl Emergency Vet, and told them that Harbor would cover the costs. Castiel spent the night there after being x-rayed and patched up, and was brought back to Harbor the next morning. Thankfully, imaging showed he had only a greenstick fracture (one that didn't go all the way through the bones) of his right front leg - it wasn't broken! While he also had a decent abrasion on his head, they were both surface wounds. If we had an x-ray machine in house, this is definitely a case we could have triaged and treated at Harbor, saving us hundreds of dollars and allowing us direct care. Castiel ended up being in our care for nearly 5 months as animal cruelty charges were pursued against the owner. Thankfully, the owner was found guilty and forced to surrender Castiel as part of his sentence and we were able to adopt him out into an amazing, loving home. While animal cruelty cases like this thankfully aren’t something we see regularly, as the holder of the county contract, we are who the police call when they encounter an injured animal (most commonly strays who are hit by cars). With an x-ray machine and room on site, we will be able to triage emergency situations, and treat even more cases in-house! Please donate on our Facebook page! ❤️❤️❤️$

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