Help us Be Together Again—Because Family Has Fur, Paws, and Love

After a series of unexpected hardships, the Pope-Olio family has been separated from their beloved family members—dogs and cats with special needs who brought daily comfort, connection, and healing to so many. These fur babies are more than companions. They are family, emotional support, and a source of strength and hope.

We’re raising funds to reunite this family with their loved ones, and to ensure the care, safety, and support they deserve. Your contribution will help cover transportation, medical needs, and a secure transition back home with their humans where they belong. Please help bring them back together. Every donation is a step toward healing. Please join us and help love find its way home. Your donation will make a difference.

Pope-Olio Family, Past and Present:

Aurora was found abandoned in a box, soaked in gasoline, her spine so damaged that her back legs were permanently paralyzed.

Emma is a blind and mostly deaf dog with an autoimmune disease and cancer.

Lucy is a miracle of a cat with advanced heart disease.

Maggie, her heart full of love, was to be put down because her legs became paralyzed; fortunately, the clinic receptionist called to ask if Pope-Olio would adopt her.

Louie was the only survivor of his litter, discovered outside in a bitter winter when he was about four days old. Unable to stand or walk, he moved in a creative way, sometimes tumbling from side to side, sometimes pulling and pushing himself along.

Milagro joined the Pope-Olio family with congestive heart failure due to a hole in his heart, which was surgically repaired.

Dharma, a dog with an atypical seizure disorder.

Calypso, the orange and white cat, came to the family as a kitten needing emergency surgery to remove his eyes.

Harmony was born with an extremely rare muscle disorder—feline congenital myotonia.

Sirius, a dog with GME (an autoimmune neurological condition), chronic renal failure, and a heart full of love.

Gideon was found in the winter woods, having managed to survive, though he was less than 6 weeks old, weighed only 2 pounds, and was missing his tail and the last bone of his spine.