As students settle into their new homes in Hillsdale, many are forced to say goodbye to parts of their homelife. While home cooked meals, family members, and childhood friends must remain at home, more and more are bringing a slice of home with them in the form of their pets. The student’s furry friends join...
Even in the midst of a busy campus, the pets of the staff and faculty manage to be familiar and friendly faces to all they come across. Most Fridays, English Professor Elizabeth Fredericks’s dog Charlotte can be found helping her grade assignments in her office. “I joke that she is the ‘PhDog’ because she was...
The howling of young men and the chattering of young women are not the only sounds resounding in the halls of Hillsdale College dormitories: There is barking, too. A few dorms on campus are home to dogs. From providing comfort and stress relief to contributing to a homey feel in the residence halls, these canines...
We pass her every day as we amble into the boisterous cafeteria. She smiles and welcomes us while we swipe our ID’s and mutter under our breath about a test we just bombed or the payment we had to make or the cost of our meal plan. Whether providing moral support to a frowning student,...
It is not uncommon for the Hillsdale Humane Society to receive calls from people who have 90 cats living near their homes. “People are just tired of the cat over-population,” said Renee Goshorn, the shelter’s manager. “They’re swarming.” Dog and cat over-population in Hillsdale and surrounding counties is not a recent development. Litchfield Veterinarian Dr....