6/27/2009 Carly and Gunner

Carly Fort is visiting her grandparents in St. James and came over to SOAR this morning. She fell in love with Ace and Gunner and it is our prediction that there will probably be some pressure put on Mom and Dad to adopt one of them. This sure looks like a good match to us.

5/10/2009 Max

Max was born at SOAR and was one of Crystal's puppies. Crystal is pictured below with her Dad. Max now lives in Texas and his mother put together this video capturing some of the best moments of the first three years of his life. He is a much loved dog as you will see. Click here.

5/10/2009 Website Changes

It was getting difficult to snychonize our dogs and cats pages with those on our petfinder pages so we've decided to just use the petfinder pages to get exposure for our animals. Clicking on our dogs and cats pages will now take you to those pages on www.petfinder.com.

5/10/2009 Marilyn

Marilyn is one of our most beloved graduates. You've seen her on these pages before. She went from Brunswick County Animal Services, to SOAR, to living the good life on Hilton Head Island. Here are some pics of her and her mom and dad at the recent dog walk on the beach to support animal rescue on Hilton Head Is.

4/27/2009 Crystal with her Dad

You'll see this pic in the May issue of PawPrints. Crystal was one of the friendliest, best dogs we ever had and we're thrilled about the home and family she was lucky enough to find. Crystal had a litter of pups while at SOAR and we're going to let their parents know about this pic as they'll be happy to see Crystal doing so well and looking so good. Give or send Dad Mike some painting business.

3/16/2009 Three Adoptions

We've had three dog adoptions in the past week. Paco, a little 9 year-old chichihua, Xena, and one of Dixie's pups, Jade, all went to new homes. We're thrilled. Our happiness is somewhat tempered by the knowledge that many times adoptions do not work out and the animals are returned to us. Hopefully that won't be the case with these three.

3/7/2009

SOAR is very sorry to learn of the passing of it's most honored graduate - Saint. We've written about Saint here many times. He was left tied to SOAR's mailbox one night and Jeannine found him the next day and of course, took him in. While SOAR was caring for him, Rick Hairston who was starting a new service dog training program, saw him and thought that he had the right qualities to be a good service dog. Rick trained him and he was placed with a young man, David, who was paralyzed. Rick's organization went on to become Carolina Canines for Service and the good work that they have done, and are doing, well, that's a whole story unto itself. Saint was Carolina Canine's first graduate and lived for many years helping David, his special person.

Saint will live forever in SOAR history and in the hearts and minds of the people who knew him.

Our deepest condolences to David who, we know, has a broken heart.

3/5/2009

We received a great correspondence from Captain Jack's mommy. Please read.

How is everybody at SOAR?  We are doing great, enjoying our pups so much.  They are the cutest and sweetest little dog family.  Jack is awesome.  He loves to go. He loves adventure.  Every time the door opens he asks if he can go too.  His favorite things are walks and soccer.  His love for soccer even inspired his mama (Brendan) to go out for the soccer team at the middle school.  We will find out if she made it next week.  Jack has learned to sit, lay down and just recently to "give us a Boxer paw" also known as shake hands.  Please give his mama in Wilmington a update on him.  He could not be more loved.  He is my son's buddy and wrestling partner, Rookie's boyfriend, Brendan's son, Camo's brother, and Rusty and I are his Memaw and Peepaw (grandparents).  Thank you so much for sending us Captain Jack!!!
Love to all at SOAR,
The Smiths

1/6/2009 Happy New Year Everyone!

We've started off 2009 very well. We've had an excellent response to our request for funds. You've come thru for us just as you always do. Thank you so much.

We've also had some good adoptions of both cats and dogs. We've adopted out 8 of the 10 of Dixie's puppies. Two more to go. If you would like to see them stop by Cape Fear Printing and Shipping in Southport. They owners are fostering them for us and are taking them to work with them. On Saturdays the puppies will be at SOAR.

12/10/2008 Little Lambs Pre School Day at SOAR

We had a great time yesterday with the Oak Island Little Lambs Pre Schoolers. They got to play with eight of Dixie's pups in the doggy common area. And the puppies had a great time too just runnin' and rippin' with these beautiful kids. It's hard to say who had the best time; the adults, the puppies, or the kids. Thanks for visiting us OIPS.

9/25/2008 Good News About Major

Major has been selected and approved by Carolina Canines to enter their training to become a service dog to a handicapped person. Carolina Canines evaluated Major and found him to have a great chance of success in this important work.

Roxie, another of our dogs, is graduating from this training and will be with her permanent person soon. Major will take Roxy's place in training.

Roxie was trained by an inmate at Camp LeJeune and so will Major be. It's a great program that Carolina Canines runs and it is helping returning Iraq disabled vets.

Yay for Carolina Canines, Roxy, and now, Major.

8/24/2008 Some Very Nice Emails

Frequently we hear from our "parent's" telling us how their canine and feline family members are doing. We love it when this happens. This is the greatest reward for us; hearing that their efforts and resources have made a difference in the lives of people and the lives of our animals.