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Our Mission
The mission of Little Victories is to rescue homeless animals and provide the means by which they can be rehabilitated and find permanent, loving homes. Little Victories will spread the no-kill philosophy and educate the public about humane care and respect for all living things. Little Victories believes that each animal should be treated for its individual needs and that each one deserves every chance of living a safe, loving, and protected life.
How We Achieve Our Mission:
RESCUE AND SANCTUARY
- We rescue and provide care for unwanted, homeless, injured, abused, and abandoned dogs and cats.
- Our goal is to adopt all animals into loving, permanent homes, but not all animals are immediately adoptable. For those few, we provide sanctuary — a place where they will be safe and loved for as long as it takes, even if it takes a lifetime.
ADOPTION
- We strive to find loving, safe, fulfilling permanent homes for every dog and cat in our care.
- We are committed to providing ongoing resources and support before and after adoption to make sure each is successful.
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
- Education about all aspects of humane care is the only way to eliminate unwanted or homeless animals.
- Our goal is to bring awareness to a lifesaving, no-kill philosophy and encourage the public to treat animals humanely.
OVERPOPULATION CONTROL
- We work endlessly to promote spay/neuter programs to control the irresponsible birth of millions of unwanted animals.
- Each animal who comes through our doors is altered before it can be available for adoption.
RELATIONSHIPS
- We dedicate time every day to building bonds between human and animal, reducing shelter stress and setting them up to be successful in a home.
- We learn all we can about each animal as an individual, learning their quirks and matching them with the right permanent home.
Our Facilities
Hours:
- By appointment only Monday through Wednesday
- Walk-ins welcome 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Sunday
Email: info@littlevictories.org
Address: 1168 Wire Branch Road, Ona, WV 25545
With the help of several generous donations, Little Victories acquired 115 acres of land in 2007 to create a sanctuary for homeless, injured, abused, and abandoned animals. Since then, our mission to be a home for the unwanted continues.
Our Beginnings
On October 21, 2013, Little Victories lost a shining star when founder and president Sue Brown lost her battle with cancer.
A lifelong animal lover, Sue followed her dream and founded Little Victories in 2003, just weeks after the death of her cocker spaniel Chloe. Little Victories became her greatest love and the labor of her life, and she pursued it with unmatched dedication and passion, inspiring hundreds of volunteers. The reward? Her greatest joy was placing one of her rescue dogs into a loving home. In her 10 years running Little Victories, she was a passionate advocate for homeless, injured, abused, and abandoned animals, and was responsible for saving thousands of lives. Each of these lives saved, she believed, was a little victory.
Here is her story. Chloe and Biscuit: The Dogs that Inspired Little Victories A Story from Sue Brown, Founder of Little Victories
In the spring of 2003, I was struggling with the fact that my beloved cocker spaniel Chloe, was dying. At the same time, someone dropped what I thought was an old dog up our road. I drove up with a can of food and a leash and tried to get the dog. She was scared, matted, and smelly. She had cataracts, a cherry eye, and was starving. I thought she was an old dog that had been dumped to die.
I finally got her into the car and fed her. She ate voraciously then jumped around like a young dog. She was sweet, happy, and a very funny little girl—even though she was so bedraggled. We took her to be bathed and groomed and then to the vet. The vet said she had juvenile cataracts (found in young dogs), a cherry eye, ear mites, fleas, worms, and countless other things. But she was only two years old!! And she was a gorgeous black cocker spaniel.
I felt I could not bring her into the home with my sick dog and I knew this poor little dog would be put down if taken to the shelter. I contacted New York Cocker Rescue. They took Biscuit—her new name!—to New York where they did all her surgeries and medical work. Two months later, I received a picture of Biscuit in her new home in Pennsylvania and she was wearing her Easter bonnet!!
All of this was an awakening to me. I knew this was what we needed in our area—and that the little dog would have died without the New York Rescue. So, when my dog died, I channeled my grief into starting Little Victories. I did this because my own love of animals and especially my love for Chloe had taught me so much about the needs of our wonderful homeless dogs and cats.
So Little Victories was really founded by a cocker named Chloe and another little cocker named Biscuit. Coming from two very different homes and histories, their wonderful shining personalities inspired a new Hope for all animals in our area. That was how it all began. A few weeks after Chloe died, four people met in my home and the original plan for Little Victories began…