Our thanks to Former HWAH Vice President Harriette Sackler (on the right in the photo) for her reflections on our wonderful recent volunteer appreciation event. As Harriett details so well, volunteers are an integral part of keeping our mission alive and thriving!...
Volunteers
HWAH Volunteer Appreciation Day 🐶!
Volunteer Appreciation Day which is THIS Sunday at the Sanctuary from 1-3pm. Please let us know if you are bringing a finger-food if you haven’t already 😋. We’re so thrilled to hang out with everyone and celebrate YOU 💕!! (Reply to Karen...
Karen’s Favorite – Ciroc the Chihuahua
Karen's HWAH favorite - Ciroc. Our HWAH helper Karen has a favorite - and it is Ciroc! Here are some picture she recently took at HWAH Ciroc, a 14 yr old boy is tall, lean, lanky and lovable! Ciroc likes to explore and go in and out the pet doors, but he is never away...
Forever Foster – Fresh as a Daisy!
From our assistant Director, Lori "Daisy came into my life unexpectedly. I've fostered several senior pups for House with a Heart, and had just recently lost my Heart pup Poppy. I was taking a break. But Daisy showed up and she so needed a safe place to land. To this...
Volunteer Recognition Day 2024
Our Social Media Guru, Jacquie asked me to write up something about our volunteers. I thought how can I make people understand just how important, amazing and wonderful each one of them is? I don’t want to start naming names as I wouldn’t want to miss anyone. ...
Wish List Alert!
We want to cover the small pebble stone area so dogs like Meiko, Piper and Tator can go out there safely - ☹ they eat the stones. Mark measured the area and figured out if we could get 14 sections we could do the job for about 2400.00 as opposed to...
Volunteer Spotlight – Karen C.
Check out our latest Volunteer Spotlight which features the amazing and wonderful Karen C! We are so grateful to all of our volunteers, and we couldn't do what we do without you. As told by our Sanctuary Coordinator, Chris A: “As I recall, Karen started at HWAH as...
Volunteer Spotlight – Gretchen
When did you start at HWAH (approximate)? Summer of 2021 (August maybe) What lead you to HWAH? I had recently left my job and was looking for a place to volunteer. I have always had the thought that one day I would like to walk into a shelter and adopt the oldest cat...
Meet Volunteer Karen and her Forever Foster Monroe!
I started volunteering at House with a Heart in 2016, shortly after unexpectedly losing my beloved Maltese, Chloe. Being around so many senior and special-needs dogs was heaven on earth. Each resident was clearly grateful to be safe and loved! It was during this time...
Wonderful Ending!
Wonderful ending for this wonderful pup! Reba has been a long time short term care client of ours and her mommy always made sure she had the best care. Unfortunately, her mom’s health had been declining and was so sad to realize she could no longer care for Reba. Bill...







