What Money and Support Can Do When It Comes to Saving Dogs
Only an hour from Corinth where they are struggling to raise money for the shelter by sitting outside the supermarket collecting donations is a beautiful, brand-new 2 million dollar shelter teeming with staff and resources.
Tupelo-Lee Humane Society is blessed with a local community that generously values and invests in its shelter. The new shelter was built literally in the nick of time, the roof caving in one of their kennel areas days after they had moved into their new building in October of 2018.The building is bright and airy, filled with beautiful paintings and rooms for every possible use. Their director, Rachel, is smart and resourceful and obviously a strong, natural leader. Last year she focused on increasing adoptions and reclaims and the results were strong. A board in the lobby showed how many adoptions they’d had in February.
Tupelo-Lee Humane Society is blessed with a local community that generously values and invests in its shelter. The new shelter was built literally in the nick of time, the roof caving in one of their kennel areas days after they had moved into their new building in October of 2018.The building is bright and airy, filled with beautiful paintings and rooms for every possible use. Their director, Rachel, is smart and resourceful and obviously a strong, natural leader. Last year she focused on increasing adoptions and reclaims and the results were strong. A board in the lobby showed how many adoptions they’d had in February.
Rachel didn’t have a hand in designing the building and admitted they have more rooms than they know what to do with, so they are experimenting with usage and trying to figure out what to do with their space.I only spent an hour or two with Rachel, but I’m pretty certain she’ll figure out the smartest way to set up that shelter. I also believe that if she has set her sights on righting the backward breed-specific laws in Tupelo that make life even harder for a misunderstood and mislabeled breed, she will make that happen too. TLHS is a bright and hopeful star in an area of the country that sorely needs it.For the sake of all the animals in northern Mississippi, here’s hoping their light reaches the places like Ripley Market and Jackson, where we next visited a shelter that could sorely use these resources and hope.
Until every cage is empty,CaraPlease help us by subscribing (button on right side) to and sharing this blog. You can also keep track of us on Facebook and Instagram.Who Will Let the Dogs Out (we call it Waldo for short) is an initiative of Operation Paws for Homes. If you’d like to contribute to our work, we encourage you to click on the how to help link above and give directly to a shelter. You can also donate to our work via OPH’s donation page by designating Who Will Let the Dogs Out in your comments.My upcoming book, One Hundred Dogs & Counting: One Woman, Ten Thousand Miles, and a Journey Into the Heart of Shelters and Rescues (Pegasus Books, July 7, 2020) tells the story of not only our foster experience but how Who Will Let the Dogs Out began. It is available for preorder now and a portion of proceeds of every book sold will go to help unwanted animals in the south.
Until every cage is empty,CaraPlease help us by subscribing (button on right side) to and sharing this blog. You can also keep track of us on Facebook and Instagram.Who Will Let the Dogs Out (we call it Waldo for short) is an initiative of Operation Paws for Homes. If you’d like to contribute to our work, we encourage you to click on the how to help link above and give directly to a shelter. You can also donate to our work via OPH’s donation page by designating Who Will Let the Dogs Out in your comments.My upcoming book, One Hundred Dogs & Counting: One Woman, Ten Thousand Miles, and a Journey Into the Heart of Shelters and Rescues (Pegasus Books, July 7, 2020) tells the story of not only our foster experience but how Who Will Let the Dogs Out began. It is available for preorder now and a portion of proceeds of every book sold will go to help unwanted animals in the south.
