The Storm Shelter Sled Dogs Sanctuary and Rescue

The Storm Shelter Sled Dogs Sanctuary and Rescue We work to facilitate the rescue and re-homing of dogs in need - especially sled dog breeds. We also work with elderly and special needs dogs.

Hayward WI. What a beauty! 🐾❤
08/15/2026

Hayward WI. What a beauty! 🐾❤

Sad news to share as our beautiful Kiyah let us know yesterday that she was just too tired to fight anymore. 😔 During b...
08/15/2026

Sad news to share as our beautiful Kiyah let us know yesterday that she was just too tired to fight anymore. 😔 During breakfast feeding I was urging her to try to eat and she looked at me with such a tired and helpless look. It was almost as if she were saying "Mama, I just can't eat". 🥺 I looked at Kev and we agreed that we had to let her decide. Dr. G was just getting ready to leave for a few days, but waited for Kiyah and Kev and I to get there. After Doc checked her over she found some pretty strong evidence that Kiyah was probably suffering from some type of brain tumor. She passed with all of us holding her and loving on her. 💔
Kiyah was a year old when she came to us a little over 10 years ago. She was a beautiful young malamute who grew into a beautiful older malamute. She was such a good dog, getting along with all of the others, a loving and cuddly dog. In true malamute fashion, she was also stubborn. If she didn't want to move, nothing could make her change her mind. 😉
Most of our dogs have their own "theme songs". Kiyah's was Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac. Only instead of Ah - ahhhhh we sang Ki -yah. About a year ago there was a popular car commercial that used that song. Whenever it would come on, Kiyah would look at TV, puzzled why those people were singing her song. 🙂
Thanks to all of you for your prayers, healing vibes, messages and support. Thanks to Dr. G and Fred for your kindness and compassion when you were supposed to be "on the road".
RIP Sweetheart. We already miss you so much. Until we see you again.......... Good girl. Dogspeed. 💔❤️‍🩹

I just wanted to give you all an update on Kiyah, I know that some of you have been wondering. She is okay, but not gre...
08/13/2026

I just wanted to give you all an update on Kiyah, I know that some of you have been wondering. She is okay, but not great. We are just not having much luck at all getting her to eat on any kind of regular basis. We have been trying everything - every kind of dog food, cat food, human food......... Any time over the last two weeks that you would look in our frig, you would see 6-8 small bowls of food siting in there. Kiyah will eat a small of amount of something in the a.m., so I make it again at lunch time, but then she doesn't want it, so I try something else. So we set the first thing aside to try later. When Kiyah still turns it down, another dog will get it. We got another round of appetite stimulants yesterday and she ate pretty good last night, but is back to picking at her foods today. We are also giving her lactated ringers so she has plenty of fluids. When she refuses food, we put goody types of fluids - bone broth, baby food, yogurt and melted ice cream in a giant syringe and she will usually "drink" that.
But she is losing weight / muscle tone. We will keep on trying everything humanly possible for a bit more, but this is no way for a big and wonderful malamute to live. 🥺 We are so hoping that another day of the stimulant will help us turn the corner. I hate to make you sad but I want to be honest and we are worried.
This is a photo of Kiyah after some ice cream. She really likes ice cream. 🥹 She even has some on her nose....

A big thank you this a.m. to Chequamegon Humane Association (CHA) for sharing their abundance of dog food with us. We s...
08/11/2026

A big thank you this a.m. to Chequamegon Humane Association (CHA) for sharing their abundance of dog food with us. We so appreciate it! 💖🐾 We add that food to what we have received from a local friend and our rescue friends in MN, and we have enough dog food to get us well into the fall!!

We have also recently received some donations of gently used dog beds, cushions, blankets and towels from followers. 💖🐾 And we would not have made it through the last few months without the wonderful monetary donations! (and all of your words of support) Thank you all so much. 🐾💖🐾💖🐾💖

We were watching WNBA and I was enthusiastically cheering for the Lynx. Timber slept through it all. 😉🐾🥰
08/10/2026

We were watching WNBA and I was enthusiastically cheering for the Lynx. Timber slept through it all. 😉🐾🥰

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08/09/2026

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Hey all. Sorry that I did not take a photo of Kiyah today, just too busy! While I cannot say that she is doing great, ...
08/09/2026

Hey all. Sorry that I did not take a photo of Kiyah today, just too busy! While I cannot say that she is doing great, she is doing better than yesterday. She ate a bit more and has been "drinking" melted ice cream through a giant syringe. She ate a little bit of turkey, a little cat kibble and lots of syringed ice cream. She seems perkier and feeling better. We appreciate all of your good vibes and hope that you will keep them coming.
I am adding a couple of photos of Badger and Jenny playing jolly ball yesterday. The slightly cooler temps have been great for the dogs and their play groups! 🐾❤🐾❤🐾❤

Please send healing thoughts for Kiyah. She is having a rough day. 😕
08/08/2026

Please send healing thoughts for Kiyah. She is having a rough day. 😕

I apologize for not posting much lately but it has been a stressful week. Hopefully we are turning the corner now. As ...
08/04/2026

I apologize for not posting much lately but it has been a stressful week. Hopefully we are turning the corner now. As I said before, Kiyah's surgery went well. We got her home and all looked good. But we couldn't get her to eat. 😕 She had 4 teeth removed and we cleaned up her other teeth, so we were expecting that. We had plenty of soft food to offer. But nothing seemed to appeal to her. Dr. G was ready for that and had appetite stimulants for us to add to her antibiotics, pain meds and fluids. So we have spent most of the last 10 days trying to get her to eat anything!😟 We would have success with something one day and she would eat a little bit, but then turn her nose up at it the next day. 🥺 We have tried all kinds of dog food - soft and moistened kibble, canned cat food, chicken, rice, venison, turkey, fish, baby food, ..... any kind of human food we have on hand. She has finally started showing interest now in eating .... and the winner is....... moistened cat kibble, preferably Iams. ???????? Who knows why this is what she has chosen, but thank God and Dog she is eating. And now that she is eating this, she is starting to eat a little bit of the other things that we would prefer that she eat. 😉 I know that we are not out of the woods yet, but we have finally had a couple of good days in a row.
So please, we would appreciate all of the good and healing vibes that you can send her way. And we will continue to feed her the cat kibble and whatever else we can get her to eat. 😉🥰🐾
We so appreciate all of you that have donated to Kiyah, shared her posts and sent comments and emojis. I really believe in positive energy. 🐾❤
Here are a few pics of Kiyah out with some of the pack just before Kev made them all go in so he could mow. 🥰
I also included a photo sent to me by a follower and friend Wendy. Wendy had gone to play bingo at a neighborhood bar and they asked for a good cause to donate a portion of the proceeds to. Wendy's son and daughter in law had adopted a dog named Kato from us years ago. Wendy was also a caretaker for Kato when the kids were moving or working tough schedules. So Wendy suggested The Storm Shelter for bingo proceeds. She told us that they were doing this and we thought that was pretty nice of them. But we were not expecting a check for $500!! That's some awesome bingo!! So thank you to Wendy (this is her little dog) and Ginger and the gang at Boomers Tavern of Ashland. ❤🐾
We'll keep you posted on Kiyah and thanks again to all.💖🐾💖🐾💖🐾

While I was washing the quilt for our bed, our pugmug Millie decided to take advantage of the chance to get under the sh...
08/01/2026

While I was washing the quilt for our bed, our pugmug Millie decided to take advantage of the chance to get under the sheet! Isn't she adorable?? She is such a snuggler! 🐾💖 Millie is going blind which is why her eyes glow like that in the flash. But she does great here because we try not to change things around in "her" areas. :-) She and Benny are best buds. 💖🐾

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