We are honoring Kelly Roedema as our Volunteer of the Month for March! Kelly has been volunteering with Last Hope since late 2016 after talking to her neighbors who foster for Last Hope. Her primary duties focus on the dogs at the Adoption Center: Feed, water, clean kennels, play, etc. She has helped at adoption events as well. When asked …

Last Hope has a core group of three women who perform our office tasks for us: Linda Pisney, Aggie Doyle, and Sherri Eichmeyer. They come into the Adoption Center and answer phones, take care of messages that were left, data entry, scan and upload information about the animals, and pretty much anything that needs to be done in the office. …

Alex began volunteering at Last Hope in February of 2015 after she saw a post on Facebook about a cat hoarding case we helped with. Since then she has fostered many cats and one dog. She isn’t afraid to take on the tougher cases: pregnant cats and litters of kittens, both of which can be handfuls. She also helps with home …

Sonia is the founder of Last Hope Animal Rescue. We asked her to convey the story of how it all began and here it is in her own words: I have always said that Last Hope started with a dog named Honey and her six puppies. This may not be the exact starting point but, for me, it’s where Last Hope started to …

Jane met a volunteer from Last Hope at a soccer tournament. She saw the volunteer’s Last Hope shirt and, being a dog lover, asked her about it. After learning about what Last Hope did for animals, Jane decided to volunteer in July of 2017. She helps with getting dogs from the Adoption Center to our Saturday and Sunday adoption events …

Barb started rescuing with LHAR in early 2017.  She was with another rescue for six years and transported hundreds of kittens down to Iowa Humane Alliance from the Waterloo area where she lives, which is how she met Lori Arbuckle (an LHAR board member). In early 2016 Barb coordinated the removal/rescue of 47 cats from a hoarding situation in rural Grundy …

Kayla and Anthony Manning have been volunteering for Last Hope for about a year and a half after Anthony, who worked at a doggy daycare center, heard from one of their clients about the good work Last Hope does. They began by fostering dogs until May of 2017 when they foster “failed” with their dog, Popeye (formerly Cooper). During that …

Kiley has been a volunteer with Last Hope since January 2017. She first signed up to foster because she wanted to help animals in need and she recently lost a family dog but they weren’t ready to adopt. She fostered two dogs in the first eight months; one of which was a “foster failure” meaning Kiley ended up adopting her. …

Over 10 years ago Lori was working for Friends of the Shelter in Vinton when she met our founder, Sonia. Sonia asked Lori and her husband to foster a very ill dog, Lottie. Week after week Lottie got stronger and stronger and was able to live a happy life for about four and a half years and was adopted by …

Our fosters are very important people! Yes, we have the Adoption Center where we house some animals but foster homes are preferable for the animals. They get to know the animals so we can better find forever homes that will be good matches. While in the foster homes, the fosters learn about the animals’ personalities and quirks and have an …