Halloween With a Dog Who Isn’t Ready for Halloween
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
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
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...
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