On the May 19 Ellen Show, Ellen DeGeneres welcomed two neighbors from Nashville, TN with an incredible story of how they survived the terrible flood that destroyed their neighborhood.
During the flood Lesli Bills was trapped in her home with her dogs because at the time the shelter would not take her in with pets. Lesli’s house caught fire and her neighbor Bill Crousser came by and rescued her and her dogs on his Jet Ski just in the nick of time.
Lesli grasped dog food as she fled the burning house to insure that her dogs had something to eat. Ellen tells Lesli, “I care about animals as much as you do, and I believe they should eat healthy foods to keep them happy and healthy. So I have a pet food company called Halo, Purely for Pets; I’m going to give you a year’s supply for your doggies!
Watch the video to see the entire segment of the show:
Halo has also recently donated to a number of animal shelters and rescue organizations in Tennessee (in partnership with Mimi Ausland and Freekibble.com), including: Coffee County Animal Shelter in Manchester, McKamey Animal Center in Chattanooga, Nashville Humane Society in Nashville, Humane Society of Dickson City in Dickson City, FAMA in Blue Ridge, Memphis Humane Society in Memphis, Boston Rescue, E. Tennessee in Carterville, and Etowah Humane Society in Carterville.
Ellen always does such cool things. And why don’t shelters take pets? How about some wealthy people donating some money so that emergency shelters can take pets? Whattyathink?
i like to read about all the good that halo dog food does but at that store where they carry halo they are always out of supplies lately when i place a order for products that i want the store never gets those supplies and i am very upset. they took over a month to get the vitamin mineral mix and 2 months has gone by and the other products have not came in . i have 25 friend who i talked in to using halo because the store has been so very slow to order our needs for our pets most of my friend have gone back to feeding the way they did before and i am not upset with halo… i have used it for along time even before all the new products they carry. upset no more bird food but my dogs are suffering badly for the need of a few of the product not in the store and they are much too slow to get the orders in not good… because lost some customers because of this and now i am getting very unhappy too. and i know it isn’t halo’s fault but my dogs are suffering for the need of the slow order and i don’t trust any other company …. very un happy here i have six dogs and don’t know what to do… help wake up earth fare to getting much needed products had to use ark products and not happy
I am a biochemist and toxicologist and I researched pet foods after the menu foods recall and found Halo. Since then my dogs seem to be ‘younger’ than before – act like puppies and have beautiful coats. I love the fact that Ellen loves animals and gives back – not just a profit motive like some companies using cheap trash for ingredients. I volunteer as web designer for the SC border collie rescue and wish we could afford to feed all our rescues Halo, but we operate in the red most times since we are one of few rescues who will take heart worm positive dogs. But I do what I can by recommending Halo to adoptive parents and have Halo on my facebook and intend to put a link to Halo on http://www.prbcr.org links page as soon as I get it coded.
Hi Rebecca:
Thank you for your support!
Caroline
Being from Nashville, I want to say thank you to Halo for caring about the tragic losses our citizens have suffered. When I first saw this story as on local news as the house was burning, I know that God sent Billy to the rescue. What a awesome man that risked his own life for another. Thank you for rewarding his bravery!
Thank you for all you do.