<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=29Df0J_0wFS4fIo00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=29Df0J_0wFS4fIo00" width="729" height="486" >LAFAYETTE TWP. — Huskies and their owners joined several more for the annual Howlin’ Husky Hike on Sunday at Buckeye Woods Park.The hike was hosted by Kaleidoscope K9s, a northern breed-focused foster-based dog rescue. Kaleidoscope K9s volunteer and event coordinator Wendy Hayes said the hike is done every year to offer previous adopters, volunteers, people interested in adopting, and anyone else to join together to raise awareness of the organization, its mission and the dogs up for adoption.“We don’t limit it to huskies,” Hayes said. “We don’t even make you have a dog. We have some people that will come and ask for a dog to walk with.”The hike serves as a major fundraiser for the organization.“Whatever money we raise goes to help pay our bills,” Hayes said. “We have a lot of dogs that need extensive medical care when they come in. Adoption fees don’t cover half of what we spend. The money we raise mostly goes to our vet bills.”She said any remaining money always goes to helping the dogs.“Last year we spent the money and redid the outside kennel run for some of our what we call “lifers”, that are unadoptable so they can live their life with us in a nice area,” Hayes said.She said with current workforces returning to offices the organization has been hit hard with requests for the organization to take in more huskies.“We turn people away every day,” Hayes said. “It’s heartbreaking because we’ll get calls from all these different shelters, and we don’t have the fosters. We don’t have the space to house these animals, so we have to say no to take care of the ones that we have. That’s a really hard part of rescue, especially right now when there are so many huskies in shelters dying every week, that we can’t save them. But we save as many as we can.”Hayes said the organization rescues 150 dogs a year, and there are currently 25 dogs in the Kaleidoscope K9s system. Through the hike, she said more people can learn the importance of what the organization does and can work together to help as many dogs as possible.Contact reporter Patrick Rhonemus at (330) 721–4050 or prhonemus@medina-gazette.com.</div></body>

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Huskies howl through Buckeye Woods Park

LAFAYETTE TWP. — Huskies and their owners joined several more for the annual Howlin’ Husky Hike on Sunday at Buckeye Woods Park. The hike was hosted by Kaleidoscope K9s, a northern breed-focused foster-based dog rescue. Kaleidoscope K9s volunteer and event coordinator Wendy Hayes said the hike is done every year to offer previous adopters, volunteers, people interested in adopting, and anyone else to join together to raise awareness of the organization, its mission and the dogs up for adoption.