Advocacy

Focus On: Dog Days of Summer – August 2025 Focus On: Dog Days of Summer –and Exciting Updates (by WWLDO co-founder Cara Achterberg) Summer might be winding down, although the temperature may not reflect that, but we at Who Will

In June, we visited Franklin County Animal Shelter in Louisburg, North Carolina. (This is our third ‘Franklin County’ if you’re keeping score.) The shelter is in a period of transition with an interim director. Jerry Jones has lived his whole

Every shelter tour is a little bit different. I am always inspired by the people we meet and while we can’t pull dogs, I do carry many of them home in my heart. I’m still thinking about the Rottie mix

Last October, Nancy and I gathered with 75 animal shelter and rescue staff, volunteers, and advocates at a community center in Radcliff, Kentucky for the first Stronger Together Retreat . We listened as one person after another expressed how exhausted

Fostering saves lives. Full stop. Cultivating a strong foster program is the one thing you can do right now that will impact the numbers in the shelter building and enable the shelter to save more lives. I’ve fostered over 300

Excerpt from Who Will Let the Dogs Out: Stories and Solutions for Shelters and Rescues No matter their economic status, the places where they were saving every healthy, adoptable dog and housing them humanely shared three elements in common: leadership,