Hope Animal Sanctuary celebrates the life of Lily.

IDA Offers Reward for Animal Abandonment Convictions

IDA’s Doll Stanley interviewed on Transforming Reality radio.

The Holidays have come and gone, along with the many celebrations reflecting the beliefs and traditions of our families, communities, and our individual expression.

I can still picture that day. Jeff (one of our past awesome team members) and I were out on a horse- cruelty case. While looking for the horse, we rounded a mobile home and spotted two puppies instead.  One was truly thin, and the other was not only emaciated, but he looked like a blackened [...]

That’s why Hope Animal Sanctuary was started by Doll Stanley, under the direction of In Defense of Animals.

The benefit ride was started in 2009 by IDA staffer Eric Phelps, former IDA staffer Matt Rossell, and Herbivore Clothing’s Josh Hooten.

There is never a moment’s rest when animals are desperately depending on you, and so many depend on us at IDA’s Hope Animal Sanctuary in rural Mississippi. On Friday, Sept. 21st, Carroll County Deputy Scott Beck accompanied me to a residence just a few miles around the hill from HAS. We had received a report that [...]

The IDA-Hope Animal Sanctuary transport team has returned from another amazing and life-saving journey to our friends at Every Creature Counts, in Colorado. This trip fulfilled the promise we had made to 89 puppy, juvenile, and adult dogs.  This weekend they were taken to the regional PetSmart stores by ECC to meet prospective guardians ready [...]

Summer in the South is known for its hot days and humid nights. Well, someone sure turned up the heat on us this season. Discoveries of abandoned animals and calls about neglected and abused animals have been overwhelming. Though the summer has been very challenging, we have had our satisfying moments of success at IDA’s [...]