Our Hope Animal Sanctuary in Mississippi is a flagship for regional rescues, aiding hundreds of animals every year. When it’s at capacity, our Justice for Animals campaign steps in to help, often with our Senior Campaigner Doll Stanley taking animals in herself.

Our Justice for Animals campaign (JAC) assists law enforcement, works with prosecutors, judges, and lawmakers, and collaborates with and shares burdens with fellow organizations and individual advocates in Mississippi — and there’s unfortunately never a dull moment.

Fatigue is what you feel when you’ve exhausted your determination for the day. This past week was no different. After days of working in the frigid town of Tillatoba with temperatures exacerbated by steady winds, we and our friends with Animal Rescue Corp, S.H.A.R.E. of Grenada, and animal control officers James and Pam Edwards, who are also Carthage, Mississippi rescuers, called this day quits. We’d successfully captured 17 of the 25 small, unsocialized white terriers whose guardian had become ill and incapacitated. 

But we can’t forget about the lost Coonhound in Grenada. Stanley and the animal control officers headed to help, spending hours to successfully catch him. Now named Moses, he was a dog who showed up faithfully every day at a local business to get fed. He went with a fellow rescuer for care until he’s vetted and we can place him. 

As for the animals currently residing with Stanley until they can be placed in addition to the animals living there permanently, she also has four dogs we’ll introduce now.

So, while we were helping Moses, there was also a small, pitiful hound who needed help too. She was curled up outside a vehicle at the same local business Moses frequented and was weak and pitiful, desperate for help. Her name is now Zelda and she is currently rehabbing at home with Stanley.

Within a day, Stanley was approached by a local grassroots group that she often works with and she agreed to also take in Zane. He is another hound who was being boarded until Stanley had enough room to foster him. 

She also has Ruthie, a pittie who was found wandering around hopelessly lost in Winona. In light of the recent conflict we had with the City of Winona for shooting the city's impounded dogs, the mother and daughter who rescued Ruthie called our Justice for Animals Campaign office to ask for help the moment they picked Ruthie up. JAC Senior Campaigner vetted Ruthie and is fostering her. She was starving but was as grateful for her newfound affection as the food she devoured. 

Maddie is a little Queensland Heeler/Chihuahua mix who was found in the road with a broken leg and fractured elbow. She had been taken to the Grenada shelter, but Stanley asked that she be treated by her veterinarian while she fostered her at her home.

While our country is experiencing the worst animal companion population crisis in 30 years, dedicated advocates realize there can be no surrender. We search for resolutions to crises and support spay and neuter programs to curb the suffering systemic to overpopulation.  

Your support for Hope Animal Sanctuary and our Justice for Animals campaign is the lifeblood of our achievements, and we can’t thank you enough.