Dog Stories

Today’s Featured Available Dogs at Oregon Humane Society Salem Campus—December 28, 2022
Dear Fellow Dog Lovers, With all of the holiday festivities, it’s been a somewhat slow week for adoptions at the shelter. However, there were a

Today’s Featured Available Dogs at Oregon Humane Society Salem Campus—December 21, 2022
Dear Fellow Dog Lovers, I’m happy to report several wonderful adoptions during the past week. Luke Our wonderful boy, Luke, who had been waiting for

Today’s Featured Available Dogs at Oregon Humane Society Salem Campus—December 14, 2022
Dear Fellow Dog Lovers, I had assumed that dog adoptions would slow down in December, as people would be busy with holiday preparations. But I

Today’s Featured Available Dogs at Oregon Humane Society Salem Campus—December 7, 2022
Dear Fellow Dog Lovers, It was a very cold, rainy day on Sunday, so all of our pictures were taken inside in the Ed Hall.

Today’s Featured Available Dogs at Oregon Humane Society Salem Campus—November 30, 2022
Dear Fellow Dog Lovers, I’m going to start this post with a love story. Last week I got a text from a fellow shelter volunteer

Winter Photoshoot Fun
By Nichole Myers-Youngquist, CPDT-KA, WHS Behavior & Training Instructor Each December, WHS staff and volunteers come together to celebrate our accomplishments and enjoy one another’s

Skye Can't Stop Smiling
We have a happy story to share with you about this sweet pup named Skye. Does she look familiar? She was part of our shelter

Tyson Falls in Love
Much of the news we’ve seen about COVID-19 has been sad, scary, or both. But sometimes, there’s a bright light shining behind the darkest cloud.

Monty Completes a Family
We all need good, happy stories. Today, we thought we’d share an update about Montenegro here. This pretty guy was a transfer from a partner

10 Texas Dogs Come to Oregon
Heavy rains and swollen rivers have placed Texas communities at risk. Shelters already full with animals waiting for their forever homes were under pressure. They

Radar Finds His Family
I wanted to give a big shout out to our friends at Willamette Humane Society.We adopted a little chi-weenie a few years ago and was

A Big Dog Finds a Happy Family
This wonderful review came to our Facebook page, and we couldn’t wait to share it with a wider audience. Here’s what this pup’s family had

Iverson Becomes a Foster Fail
We originally only went in for a foster, to get us used to the idea of having a 4-legged companion, and what we got was

Hera Finds Her Forever Family
We welcomed her into our family on 3/30/19. We had recently lost two of our older dogs (a lab and a pit) to cancer and

We're Taking in Dogs Following Deadly Alabama Tornadoes
Willamette Humane Society (WHS), along with Oregon Humane Society and other local animal rescue groups, are set to welcome 102 dogs and 45 cats from