After recovering from my temporary status as a cookie monster, I pointed the camper van along Route 89 through Kanab Utah. Kanab is home to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Many of you might recognize the name. It’s the place that saved many of the dogs dubbed “Vicktory Dogs” that were rescued in 2008 from the property of Michael Vick. Of the 22 Vicktory Dogs that were saved by Best Friends, 20 were adopted with families, and two remained at the sanctuary.
It’s a spectacular location. I stopped when I passed through here in September 2014. I added a few photos below from that visit.
The volunteer program at the Sanctuary is robust and my understanding is that it fills up quickly. It’s easy to see why — the location is spectacular and their mission is spot on for any animal lover…their mantra is “Save Them All”.
Well, gee. This flashback to my 2014 tour through Best Friends took over this post. Also, I need to compose myself from the bit of tearing up I did while composing it. In the next post, we’ll get to that water.
Aw, so glad you were able to stop there again. I am going to get there myself one day for sure!
Kim,
I actually didn’t stop this time. The photos are from the first time I went through. In 2014 .😊🐶
Oh, I didn’t realize all of the photos were from 2014. I guess I did not read very well… LOL.
For anyone wanting to contact them to arrange for an adoption — check them out at http://bestfriends.org/
Terrific organization. Following your journey makes us want to be there!
That’s a place I have wanted to visit since reading the book about Vick’s dogs. My problem is that just reading your post makes me tearful, so I am always too much of a coward to go to shelters.
There’s a small pet cemetery here in Cape County…lots of people obvoiusly use it. When the girls were smaller we had our own pet cemetry out in the back yard.