Contributed photoEmployees at Key Bank of Houlton took time off from work to help out at the Houlton Humane Society May 24 as part of Key Bank’s 21st Annual Neighbors Make the Difference Day. Taking part are, from left, Kari Brewer, Rob Faulkner, Sherry Lennentine, Barb Gaouette and Leslie Schools.
Contributed photo Lily is an approximately 2-week-old torti female with deformed feet who is residing at a Halfway Home Pet Rescue foster home. Lily started out with syringe feedings until she was declared otherwise healthy to be placed in the pediatric room with a nursing mother. HHPR currently has four nursing mothers and two were […]
By Cathy Davis It’s 4:44 a.m. and I wake up with a heaviness in my legs. I did work a little too hard over the weekend, but this is different, and as I struggle awake and try to move my legs I realize there is a 20 pound cat draped across my legs and a […]
Fish finder tickets still available By Christine Cowett Robinson Special to the Star-Herald Let me start this off on an AWESOME note! We have found a home for the last of our huskies that came to us very sick, after being seized by the state.
Contributed photo Darci, a 3-week-old female kitten at Halfway Home Pet Rescue foster home is a little too anxious to start on her life’s adventure as she has learned to climb out of her mother’s loving nest. Darci has seven brothers and sisters, all within hours of their mother’s arrival to the shelter and the […]
Quite often we get phone calls asking us to rescue feral cats. A feral cat is a cat that does not know the human touch. They are, for lack of a better word, wild. In order to catch them you need to live trap them. They bite and scratch out of fear and can […]
by Cathy Davis It doesn’t pay to go on vacation. From the pile of work on your desk to the pile of debris in your home, it just doesn’t pay. Debris, yes I said debris. This past week my husband took me on a trip to Boston to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. What a […]
Pre-walk party planned By Christine Cowett Robinson Special to the Star-Herald What a day the Central Aroostook Humane Society had on Saturday.
Aroostook Republican photo/Barb Scott Second grade students at Hilltop Elementary School recently held a bottle drive raising $150 which they donated to the Half-way Home Pet Rescue in Caribou. The students in Mary McLaughlin, Rita Roy and Cheryl Martin’s second grade rooms, discovered the importance of helping out and giving back to others through their […]
By Cathy Daviswww.houltonhumanesociety.org Very rarely does it happen that we have a surprise event, that someone comes to us and says “I’d like to organize a fundraiser for you” and all we have to do is “show up.” It’s an honor and a privilege to be chosen and to be honest, after years of continuous […]
