At approximately 7:30pm on August 28,, Sharon Stone, Operations Manager at IDA’s Hope Animal Sanctuary in Grenada, Mississippi, received a call from an employee at Greenwood Animal Hospital with a plea for help. A mother dog had been killed leaving five puppies who needed care.

The puppies were only four days old and without their mother, they would have to be bottle fed. Sharon called on a supporter who had offered to bottle feed puppies if the need ever arose. Angie Downs was happy to help, and these five precious puppies were delivered into her very capable hands at 10:00pm the same night. Without help from supporters like Angie, and people like her, many animals would not survive to enjoy the lives they so richly deserve.