Pet Connection

Pet Connection: Meet Odin

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — One-eyed wonder dog Odin may be looking at the world a little differently than your usual rescue dog, but he’s still got the full share of love and fun to give to a furever family. He’s at the Humane Society of the Lakes in Detroit Lakes, where his rescue worker Jaycee Voight shows in spite of…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Turtle

FARGO — We’re trying to help a tiny little Turtle come out of her shell this Pet Connection Thursday. Turtle is only about four months old and as Homeward Animal Shelter’s Heather Klefstad says, she is a little bit shy at first. But it only takes her a few minutes of cuddling and quiet environment until she relaxes and starts…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Sasha

FARGO — Sasha is one of the best-behaved kitties we’ve ever met in all 8 years of Pet Connections, and that’s really saying something, given her extremely tough start in life. Sasha came in to Far North Feline Rescue as a very small adult cat, under 7 pounds, with two kittens she’d recently given birth to, and shelters think she…

Pet Connection: Meet Willie

Red-headed Willie's a stranger no longer. Now he's your friend.

FARGO — He’s one of the most famous names in country music, and he’s penned and sung some of the greatest songs in American musical history. And now, Willie Nelson’s namesake, Willie the horse, is looking for his forever home. The handsome, reddish gelding comes to Pet Connection with the help of Pride and Joy founder Robert Faulkner. He’s a…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Clementine

She really is a darling.

FARGO — Clementine’s story is a long and winding one, but fortunately, unlike her namesake song, she’s no longer “lost and gone forever,” but found right here in the metro at Homeward Animal Shelter and looking for her furever home. She’s a three-and-a-half-year-old pitbull whose story starts in Texas with a family there, and who somehow wound up in the…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Willow

FARGO — Willow here is just about five weeks old but she’s already had some hard knocks in life. The little brown medium-hair tabby came in to her rescue over memorial day weekend, when someone came in with her to a local coffee shop looking for someone to rehome her, essentially abandoning her. Not only that, but Willow should not…