Carmichael
Funeral Homes
Family owned and operated
2950 King Street
Smyrna, GA 30080
770-435-4467
138 COBB LIFE | APRIL 2021
1130 Whitlock Ave.
Marietta, GA 30064
770-424-4924
www.CarmichaelFuneralHomes.com
• seasonal hikes at Kennesaw Mountain National
Park to give the dogs a fun outing and promote
the dogs and our work to other hikers
• court related community service hours
• a program where prisoners who are in housing
and about to be released are given dogs to foster,
and are taught how to train them. Turley said this
gives the prisoners an opportunity to bond and to
learn a new skill that they can then take into the
workforce when they are released, and allows the
dogs to be trained and feel loved.
Turley added that there is no shortage of crazy
stories that comes with running an animal shelter.
“Someone pulled up in the parking lot one
morning with rabbits in the back seat and just said,
‘I gotta get rid of all these rabbits.’ So we took them.
We’ve had birds. We had a hoarding case where I
think we took nine birds from the home. We have
had lizards, we’ve done Guinea pigs sometimes. We
even had a pony. We were actually at animal control
and there was a horse that was pregnant. So we put
TURLEY ADDED THAT
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE
OF CRAZY STORIES THAT
COMES WITH RUNNING
AN ANIMAL SHELTER.
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