Kim Mathis - Lone Pine Ranch Director

Our feral kitty barn at my farm is where I take the feral cats we spay/neuter and vaccinate. The new shelter my hubby and I built in 2022 for the rescue sanctuary is on Hwy 102, it’s not a safe place to release feral cats. I’m going to take some pictures of some of the ferals when I can sneak in and they don’t run. Every morning besides giving fresh water and dry food they get a breakfast Buffet. Lots of shade in the back fenced in area and a cubby hole to run back and forth as they please. The milk barn and the pole barn is free range for them to go chase birds and rodents, they actually work for their food chasing off rodents 😊…

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?

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.

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❤️

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