Home For the Howlidays

-by Deannalynn Arzola

Cassie, an adorable 4 year old shepherd mix, has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season; she has found a forever home with Toni and Rhonda, who have been a part of our HCWS family for several years now. In fact, Cassie is the fifth rescue they have adopted.
When Cassie first came home, she had negligible human trust issues, but after settling in nicely with her family was, within four weeks, following her brothers and sisters thru the doggie door, and up the stairs to settle in for the night.
“Crazy Cassie”, as she is lovingly called by her moms, enjoys chasing Molly and Bebe around the pool and enthusiastically hopping up on Bebe’s back to earn her treats.
Cassie is a graduate of our highly successful “Pups on Parole” program. “Pups on Parole” partners dogs in need of homes with female inmates at the Southern Nevada Women’s Correctional Facility in North Las Vegas, in an attempt to beneficially rehabilitate both. The dogs stay with their foster moms 24 hours a day, learning to adjust to human companionship, to trust, and to become successfully adoptable through behavioral training provided by the inmates. This program simultaneously allows the ladies at SNWCF to learn a useful skill, receiving the rehabilitation needed to forge a successful life outside of the walls of the prison while paying their debt to society. For further information on this amazing program, please visit us at https://www.hcws.org/programs-events/programs/pups-on-parole.

This is a time of year when most of us give thanks for the blessings in our lives. Here at HCWS, we are so thankful for pet parents like Toni and Rhonda. We know that Cassie is thankful for her new home, as well, and Toni informs me that she and Rhonda are very thankful for their basset hound, Molly, who has welcomed all of her new family members with great patience and open paws.
We hope that during this holiday season, more abandoned animals will have much to be thankful for, and we know what a gift a rescue dog is to a warm and loving family.
If you are thinking of gifting a pet to someone for the holidays, please make sure that they are ready to welcome a new pet into their home and please consider a rescue. When you adopt an abandoned animal, you are not just giving the gift of a pet to your loved ones, you are giving the gift of life, and that is the greatest gift of all. 

Happy holidays from all of us at Heaven Can Wait.