Halloween With a Dog Who Isn’t Ready for Halloween

Halloween With a Dog Who Isn’t Ready for Halloween

by | Oct 27, 2026 | Tips

Halloween is a strange night for dogs. From their side of the door, the sequence goes like this: the doorbell rings every ninety seconds, strangers appear in shapes that aren’t people-shaped, everyone shouts, and this continues for three hours. For a confident...
Three Times Longer: The Real Cost of a Label

Three Times Longer: The Real Cost of a Label

by | Oct 20, 2026 | Advocacy

In 2016, researchers at Arizona State University published a study that should have changed more than it did. They looked at pit bull-type dogs in a shelter setting and compared them to lookalike dogs of similar size, coloring, and build who happened to be labeled...
We Don’t Set a Deadline

We Don’t Set a Deadline

by | Oct 14, 2026 | Advocacy

There’s a question we get asked more than any other, usually by someone who has just read about one of our sponsored dogs and noticed she’s been listed for a while. “What happens if nobody adopts her?” The answer is that we keep going. The...
The First Three Days, Three Weeks, and Three Months

The First Three Days, Three Weeks, and Three Months

by | Oct 4, 2026 | Tips

Most adoptions that fail don’t fail because the dog was wrong. They fail because the first two weeks looked nothing like what the family expected, and nobody told them that was normal. So here’s the version somebody should have handed you at the shelter...

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