Liskovec opened the nonprofit Small Miracles in 2006, and has operated it from a facility on Baltimore National Pike since 2009. The shelter accepts animals from West Virginia — she was receiving some 30 dogs and a dozen or so cats over the weekend — and many of the animals require medical attention. One dog she was accepting was struck by a car and had a leg amputated; a cat already at the shelter had an eye that had to be removed, another needed surgery for a damaged ear.