Another Shelter Tour!
This Sunday we will be heading off on another shelter tour – this time sticking close to home. We’ll be visiting six shelters in my home state of Virginia. On our way out, we’ll have a quick, fun stop at…
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What We Learned Visiting Shelters in North Carolina
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…
What the Numbers Tell Us
We leave next week for shelter tour. This time to Virginia and North Carolina – one of the notorious five states killing the most animals, according to Best Friends Animal Society, the unofficial leader of the No-kill movement. In North…
Heading Into the New Year with Hope for Our Shelters
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…
What We Learned Touring Twelve Shelters
Every shelter tour is hard, amazing, inspiring, heartbreaking, and exhausting, but I always learn more about the crisis of so many unwanted dogs in our country. This time we made 12 shelter visits in four states, bringing our total shelter…
Exciting news for Who Will Let the Dogs Out
It’s a BIG week for us at Who Will Let the Dogs Out! I’ve got THREE exciting things to tell you! I’m super excited to share with you the incredible news that my favorite dog supply company, Max & Neo,…
Shelter Tour Wrap Up: Where We Went and What We Learned
Every time we go to the shelters, I learn something. This time was no different. We’ve been to over 80 shelters now, so you’d think they would all look alike. In a few ways (dogs in need, incredible people) they…
Count Down to Shelter Tour
A week from now we will be on shelter tour, hitting seven shelters in six states.
Off We Go on Shelter Tour!
We leave for our shelter tour in two days. As always, I’m excited but nervous and slightly overwhelmed. There are so many details, so many new people, new places, and hundreds of miles to drive. Often when I reach out…
Uncomfortable Conversation
Okay, let’s talk about something that’s super uncomfortable for me…. Money. I try hard to keep it in perspective. When my husband and I have to spend large sums of money on something truly un-fun or unexpected but necessary like…