by Camerin Mattson | Nov 28, 2022 | stories
It’s 8am at Anderson Humane’s South Elgin shelter and you can hear the excited barking from the parking lot. That’s because it’s time for breakfast. In the back dog room, known as the Doggy Den, Marissa is standing with a scoop in one hand surveying the dry erase...
by Camerin Mattson | Nov 21, 2022 | stories
“He came into our house like he lived here,” Gloria said of Storm, the 7-year-old Catahoula leopard dog mix she and her family started fostering for Anderson Humane in early 2022. In fact, when her husband, Rick, sat down in his favorite chair that first day to watch...
by Camerin Mattson | Nov 17, 2022 | stories
They weren’t fishing for turtles, but that’s exactly what one of Stefan’s group caught on a recent fishing trip in South Elgin’s Blackhawk Park. A map turtle, to be precise, so named for the markings on its shell that look like topography. When Stefan tried to release...
by Camerin Mattson | Nov 14, 2022 | stories
On a recent sunny Saturday, Heritage Woods of Batavia, an assisted living facility for seniors, had some unusual visitors – Pearl, a 1-year-old Bernadoodle and Willow, a 4-year-old Shepherd-mix. The dogs are part of Anderson Humane’s Healing Paws pet therapy program...
by Camerin Mattson | Nov 10, 2022 | stories
Alex started volunteering at Anderson Humane to keep her sanity. It was 2020 and the 5th grade teacher was home all day, teaching her class remotely. She missed the daily interaction with her students and was desperate to get out of her house. A life-long animal...
by Camerin Mattson | Nov 4, 2022 | stories
Harvey looks pretty different from when Betty first met the hound mix six years ago. And that’s a good thing. When she started fostering Harvey, his head was a raw, reddish-pink and the ends of his ears were missing. They’d burned off. When he was set on fire. No one...
