As you may know, the 2024 Michigan legislative session closed with a wail of despair. Near the end, the State House was unable to vote due to intentional member absence, leaving hundreds of bills to die — including a long list of important animal protection bills such as: Pet license plate (funding for spay/neuter and support for shelters) Cat declaw ban Animal Bond and Forfeiture (allowing a better process to get cruelty case animals out of shelters and into loving homes) Queenie’s Law (ending painful experiments on dogs) Veterinary telehealth expansion (to better help people and pets) Ban on pet
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Monthly Archives February 2025
Kairi Completes Our Pack
Back in November, we had to say goodbye to our bestest boy of 14 years. We knew we wanted to bring another dog into our family and we had our sights set on the summer. Then the summer became the spring. Spring soon became the New Year and before we knew it we found ourselves falling in love with the toothy grin of Poppy. She joined our pack, now Kairi, instantly connected with her German Shepard big sister Khaleesi, and fell in love with her new kitty brother and sister, Rooney and Hobbes (also HSHV adoptees!). Saying goodbye to our
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Our missing puzzle pieces
We first got Owen and it was love at first sight. He was the first missing piece we found and we were so happy and excited to get him home. He became best friends with our miniature dachshund and they were best buds no breaking them up and because they both had separation anxiety they helped each other a lot. Then our miniature dachshund passed away and Owen was lost and sad, it broke our hearts and so when we were ready we came back to HSHV and that’s when we found Princess peach or as we call her Mama
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