I have a question: Is keeping an animal alive the same as giving them life? At our 28 shelter visits this year, we met dogs who had spent months, even years at the shelter. We met others who had grown…
Our shelters are in crisis. More dogs have died in 2024 than died in 2023, and many more have spent too long in under-resourced shelters. And, critically, too many dogs have been turned away by intake policies and overwhelmed shelters.…
Walking this morning as the sun rose and the cows on either side of our dirt road watched me warily, I thought about attitude. How it can make or break a day, a situation, a life, really. Right now, things…
People ask me quite often what exactly Nancy and I do on shelter tour. I thought I’d give you an idea of a typical day. Most days we rise by six (although I am usually up before five and try…
Our winter shelter tour leaves on January 29. This will be a (relatively) short one, just five or six days. We’re still nailing down our stops, but it looks like we’ll visit shelters and rescues in Virginia, North Carolina, South…
It has been an incredible year for WWLDO. Thanks to YOUR support, we’ve had quite an impact! We are excited to go into next year with a fully loaded Instagrant budget thanks to the ASPCA’s doubling of our grant money…
We are EXCITED to announce we have a NEW WEBSITE! We love the bright new look and hope you will find the website informative, engaging, and most of all- inspiring. The site was made possible through the generous donation of…
After a week in North Carolina visiting 6 shelters, we learned a lot. Despite now visiting over 100 shelters, each visit teaches me something new about the challenges of saving dogs in the south and/or reminds me of some of…
Whenever we travel through Tennessee, we are lucky to have a homebase just outside of Nashville at the home of a rescue hero of mine. Laura Prechel is the mind and heart behind CASA Transport, which saved more than 2400…
Who Will Let the Dogs Out started after Nancy and I began visiting southern shelters to learn where all the dogs were coming from and why. We didn’t know how to fix the problem, but we knew we wanted to…