Kim Mathis - Lone Pine Ranch Director

02/21/2025

One of the Worst Stories Of my Dog Rescue adventures…

Noel Missouri!!🥲
Their make shift dog shelter was a fly infested disaster.
The girl that started it to save strays from dying? She meant well, but lacked funding to do it the right way.

Mark and I took them dog food and wormer to try to be helpful. When we seen the flys, the mud, no wind break, and winter was coming soon, It Broke our heart.
I took Nicole aside, and I told her “ you cannot let these dogs live like this, they would be better off put down”.
Nicole ask me to take the small lap dogs with me, we picked them up out of filth, fly eggs on them and put them in our truck.
Mark and I both cried as we headed home to Centerton, Ar.
I guess I tapped into her conscience, she called me half way home, can you take them all? “I’m closing down. I told her I would start to work on calling for outside help.
I called Romaine Kobilsek Director of Spay Arkansas (at that time) and the ball started rolling fast and furious.
Romaine found rescues all over the 4 state area, they saved the lives of 57 puppies!
Mark and I had to make 4 trips to get 30 big dogs out of the Noel Missouri make shift shelter and find temporary pens to set up at our Lone Pine Ranch Animal Shelter.
The last trip into the Noel shelter, we loaded 3 dogs, the 4th last dog was being left behind to be put down the next day. Hershey didn’t like other dogs and we just didn’t have a pen to put her by herself.
As we were leaving, the wind was strong and howling through the empty shelter, one dog in the back pen all alone.
We got down the road 3 miles, I started crying, Mark we can’t leave her!
Mark turned the truck around and looked at me with tears in his eyes “ I know”.
Back we sped for that one last dog, I called Lynda Arey and ask if she could foster Hershey, Lynda’s answer was immediately Yes!

My husband, Mark Mathis, says I need to not take life so seriously.
The trench work in animal rescue, it has a way of taking down the blinders and keeps you running to next rescue mission. So how do I not take life seriously?

02/11/2025

Lovely memories ❤️

02/11/2025

The sweetest kindest volunteer ever❤️

10/31/2024

4:36 am…
Running a sanctuary for the cats/dogs that never got adopted ? It’s really tuff as they grow old, I always pray Father God give me knowledge to handle today…🙏🏼

I have 3 cats right now Tom 21 Tiger14 Fluff 10 they may be leaving soon.
At night when I finally lay my head down from an exhausting day, that’s when I call out to God for peace and knowledge to handle tomorrow’s troubles. When I enter each day the sanctuary, it’s always new, no 2 days the same.

10/30/2024

My Charlie Boy has to have tumors removed from his mouth that Dr. Harris is concerned may not be a good outcome. We will send them off and hope for the best… So I will try to get pictures of my boy and me several times before Charlie leaves me. I spent 2 1/2 months, 100 miles a day, lots of money on gas, rotisserie chicken, bacon grilled in the woods to finally lead Charlie to the trap. He is feral, so he remained with me instead of adopted out. Today’s wind almost blew us away!

10/29/2024

Words can’t describe my love for the farm I bought from my parents estate, my mother loved it as much also…❤️ Just 2 miles from the Lone Pine Ranch Animal Shelter❤️

10/22/2024

Silver the lost Shepherd went in the trap, is safe at home🙌

10/15/2024

It makes me happy, that first cup is so good…❤️

10/15/2024

I lost my girl Wigglebutt at 7:15 pm, she was diagnosed with lung cancer a month ago. I realized this morning she was going to leave me sooner than I thought, I started taking pictures and by 5 pm when I had Shanda take one of Wigglebutt and me together she already was weakening fast.

09/05/2024

The tornado destroyed the back of the 5th wheel my LP help lives in, does any of my friends know of a decent older travel trailer for sale?

09/03/2024

Today is going to be busy getting all my paperwork work ready for two dogs to leave for a transport Thursday at 3am. I have to have 2 copies of everything each in the 8 by 12 yellow envelopes with the dogs pictures on the outside and which rescue they are going to.

They have a foster to adopt parent waiting for their arrival.

09/03/2024

We finally caught Nacho! This little bo**er has evaded the trap all summer, now to Best Friends to be neutered and all vaccines.

08/29/2024

We have hired our son Michael Mathis to start taking the flatten barn apart, I never dreamed a tornado would be the old barn’s demise 😔…

07/31/2024

It’s been the craziest week, calls, text,emails and Fb messages from people who want to surrender their animals. Lost and Found dogs turned away by the City shelters, even The Good Shepherd Humane Society who is a very caring shelter.

These shelters are paid by our tax dollars! The directors draw big salaries, they have paid employees, good Samaritans that pick these animals up to get them to a safe shelter are turned away.

My stomach hurts, my blood pressure soars, because I’m only a sanctuary who is full and I do my rescuing from my heart. My volunteers and I don’t make one dime, every cent goes to the animals. I’m spinning my wheels, there is no light that shines at the end of a tunnel. It’s only Wednesday and I have had 22 desperate calls, I don’t have the resources to take in anymore animals turned down by the City/County shelters.

07/21/2024

07/07/2024

“Hell is empty, all the demons are here.”
William Shakespeare

07/07/2024

We had this abandoned or lost dog almost trusting us for (a week being fed hot dogs) he came out of brush daily. The day we brought the trap July 2, fireworks had went off the night before and he hasn’t been back to his hiding place since. If you see him please contact me. 479-795-2709…😢location last seen Hudson Rd across from Hwy 102 Flea Market parking lot…