09/03/2026
Shelter stories: this is stormy, the dog we posted earlier this week from the City of Dardanelle-Animal Control. She was relinquished as a puppy and she has spent most of her life alone in a concrete cell with almost no human attention and no access to grass.
We stopped by yesterday to get to know her a little bit better and take her out to play. She is an *incredibly* happy dog. Even with all those new smells outside, she was more interested in seeing other people then she was in sniffing around. That likely means that she will be very bonded to the human that takes her.
She’s had very little attention, so she’s going to need a patient person who can understand her needs and work with her. After her initial excitement, she was able to calm down. We don’t know how she does with other dogs yet. We’re going to try to visit her often and see what we can learn. Like many dogs in the shelter, she may have to be euthanized if a home cannot be found soon. And while that is very sad, it is *more* sad to let her live the rest of her life in a concrete box. That is the reality of pet of population.
While it’s easy to blame the local shelter, the reality is that it is all of our responsibility to build a community that decreases pet over population and makes it exciting to get a rescue dog rather than going to a breeder. Please share her photo and hopefully we can find her people.
