Onslow County Animal Services is a busy, bright, welcoming place conveniently located near schools and beside a county park. Municipal shelters are often located next to county utilities, often near the landfill or the waste processing plant. Too often they are down backroads, in out-of-the-way places, so it was great to arrive at this bright,…
It’s Time to Let the Dogs Out! After visiting over one hundred shelters, one thing we’ve realized is that too often people aren’t aware of what’s happening in their community’s shelter and sometimes they aren’t aware there is a shelter in their community. This is a recent message we received on Facebook: “…just wanted to…
WE’RE Letting the Dogs Out! Notes from our Founder, Cara Achterberg Three years ago, Nancy Slattery and I sat in a bar in Alabama, exhausted after another long drive and shelter visit. It was in that bar that we launched the idea of Who Will Let the Dogs Out and our mission to raise awareness…
It was a beautiful drive up to Mountain City, Tennessee. We followed a dead-end road up a hollow where it ended at the animal shelter. Mandy had told us to drive until the pavement ended and there would be the shelter. And there it was. Mountain City Animal Shelter is a tiny cinderblock building nestled…
In this Issue: Online Auction, SWD Work weekend, Grant deadlines, Fundraising Ideas, and more! It’s Time for our AUCTION! Our first annual Fall Silent Auction is almost here! The auction will be open on September 6 at 12 pm and will close on September 16 at 8pm. This will be our largest fundraiser for the…
“Why do you do this?” I asked Rose, the founder/director/doer-of-pretty-much-everything at Saving Webster Dogs. Rose shrugged, smiled, sighed, and said, “Somebody has to do it.” But, somebody doesn’t have to do it. In fact, nobody else in Webster County, West Virginia is willing to do what Rose does to save these dogs.
This is not a sustainable situation, but it is one that we encounter almost everywhere we go: Incredible heroes (mostly middle-aged and older women) sacrificing everything to save the animals, and counties who count on them with no plan for what happens when they can no longer continue to rescue (or the rescue connections dry up).
I asked Leonika how we solve this, and she shook her head. She said
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This past spring we visited Petersburg Animal Care & Control just outside of Richmond, Virginia. The shelter building is over sixty years old and shows it, but new director and ACO, Jenny, is doing all she can with what she’s got, and that means saving as many dogs as possible. Before Jenny took over in…
Saving Webster Dogs is a unique rescue run by one of the hardest working, most dedicated woman I know (and I know a lot of women in rescue). Rose cares for between 75 and 115 dogs at a time on her hillside farm (often single-handedly). Volunteers are few and far between in the impoverished, rural…
A week from now we will be on shelter tour, hitting seven shelters in six states.
