animal shelter crisis

A Backyard Hidden in Overgrowth — And a Mother’s Fierce Instinct In the dense, overgrown grass of a neglected backyard in St. Louis, Missouri, survival had become a daily battle. Beneath tangles of weeds and scattered debris, a mother dog and her four pudgy puppies were hiding from a world that had seemingly forgotten them. In 2022, Donna Lochmann, Chief Lifesaving … [Read more...] about Rescued from squalor, dog can’t stop smiling for the people who saved her and her beloved babies