It was always Kimber’s dream to move to Seattle, she said, sitting with her two dogs Buddy and Reesie. While Buddy is a new addition to the family — she rescued him nine months ago when he was abandoned on the side of the road — she’s had Reesie for ages. And they’ve been through a lot.
Kimber came to Seattle about seven or eight years ago from North Dakota and went straight into homelessness.
“When I got here, I started out right down there on Third Avenue just like everybody else, at the shelter,” she said. ...