A Smart Way to Help a Public Shelter
Smart shelter practices that save every dog don’t have to cost a lot of money, but if money is what is needed here is a model for how local volunteers can help a public shelter
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Let’s Go to Camp!
Let’s go to @CampJean and save some dogs!
“I’ll Do Anything to Save an Animal”
“I’ll do anything to save an animal.” Those were the words of Remi, the founder of Paws 4 the Cause in Lexington, Kentucky. We’d just met up with him as a last minute addition to our shelter tour after that morning’s originally planned visit had canceled. It was sheer luck that we happened upon Paws…
YOU Can Help Let the Dogs Out
Now that Who Will Let the Dogs Out (otherwise known as Waldo) is official, we need YOU. You knew this was coming, right? After all, I did warn you in my previous post.
Somebody Oughta Do Something About It
We have BIG news! Read all about it….
Saving the Bullies
Fact: Rescue is hard.
What’s even harder? Rescuing pit bulls.
Fall Shelter Tour Part One
Traveling through the south this time around feels different. It’s not just the masks that are sometimes prevalent and other times completely absent. As we wind through the mountains on our way to Nashville, I wondered about priorities. Is it wrong to want to save dogs when people are struggling so much? Will people care…
Top State Killing Dogs?
North Carolina has been named one of the top five states killing animals by Best Friends. I’ve been to North Carolina. I’ve visited shelters and rescues, know animal advocates in the state, and fostered plenty of dogs from North Carolina (including the nine pups I’m fostering right now). I’ve also traveled and visited shelters in…
An Angel in the Tennessee Dog Pounds
As we walked through several municipal pounds in Tennessee, I kept thinking, “Thank God for Amber.” Truly. She and her husband Brandon and their rescue Halfway Home are the only hope for too many animals whose lives could so easily be snuffed out, unknown and uncounted. As far as I can tell, ‘animal control’ in…
Hope in Hayti (and a puppy rescue!)
The first time I talked to Dave Hollingshead, the street supervisor and defacto dogcatcher for Hayti, Missouri, I learned two things— 1)You pronounce Hayti, not like the Caribbean country, but Hay-tie, as in a bale of hay and a tie that goes with your shirt. 2) the dogs of Hayti are incredibly lucky to have…