Pet Connection: Meet Loki

FARGO — Loki is one of Diamond in the Ruff’s success stories, but it took him three tries to get to his furever home with Diamond volunteer Heather Mitchell.

He was returned by multiple potential pet parents until Mitchell and her husband decided he needed to be their “foster fail” and keep him permanently.

And that’s part of why Diamond’s “Paws for Recovery” program is so critical to our region.

It’s a program they do in partnership with Sanford Health that keeps people who’ve run into trouble caring for their pet from having to permanently surrender them for adoption.

Sanford makes the referral to Diamond, and then the volunteers take the pet in until the owner gets back on their feet, whether that takes a few days, a few weeks, or even a few months.

The program’s important on two levels.

First, it preserves that important human-animal bond between the owner and their pet, which is important since pets are often confused, scared and sad when their owners surrender or abandon them.

Second, it keeps the pets out of area shelters, leaving room for the pets who really do need to be permanently rehomed.

Mitchell and Loki joined the Morning Show to talk about how the program works and why it’s so meaningful in the lives of animals and humans here in the Red River Valley.

For more information:

https://www.diamondpetrescue.org/