October 7, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb Animal Shelter and Loyal Dawg Rescue are teaming up for a “Night of Haunted Tails” an original Halloween play to be presented LIVE on stage in the auditorium of the Mike Foster Multi-Purpose Center. It’s a two-night event, Friday and Saturday, October 21 & 22 from 7-8 p.m. each night. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for children and all proceeds will go to the DeKalb Animal Shelter and Loyal Dawg Rescue. Tickets will be available only at the door.
Dress up your little ghosts and goblins and join them for a night of Halloween fun and scares. Enjoy Halloween candy, baked goods, treats, hot apple cidar, and much more.
“This is a brand-new original show that we are bringing to DeKalb County,” said John Hillard of Loyal Dawg Rescue. “It’s a LIVE production or play. It’ll be a night full of fun and chills with a lot of little spooks and scares for the kids. It’s going to be a fantastic show about one hour long. Its an interactive show with music and the audience will get to be part of it. All of the money raised will go to the little dogs and cats over at the shelter and at Loyal Dawg Rescue,” said Hillard.
Like the DeKalb Animal Shelter, Loyal Dawg Rescue looks to place animals needing a loving home.
“Loyal Dawg Rescue is unique,” said Hillard. “We are located in Liberty situated on five acres of property. My background is from Los Angeles. I was there for 29 years and worked with a lot of troubled cases or what we called “Code Reds” where dogs were about to be euthanized. We take those kinds of dogs and do a full psychological and physical rehabilitation on them. We get them fully rehabilitated and socialized again. I fully believe that along the way no dog is born bad or truly aggressive but they sometimes are made that way because of happenstances or tragic events in their life so my whole job has been to rehabilitate these dogs and give them a second chance at life and get them back into society. We have a very high success ratio with how I work. I have been able to team up now with the DeKalb Animal Shelter. We have started working together. They have made tremendous strides in the community. Dogs and cats in our community all need help and that’s what the shelter and Loyal Dawg Rescue rely on and provide,” said Hillard.