Over the last four years, we as a nation, a community, and as people have experienced a lot of change. With those changes have come many heartbreaks, challenges, extreme difficulty, and hope for the future. Unfortunately, our DAWGS family has not been immune to these changes. We have lost dear friends including my husband and co-founder Mark, been faced with zero volunteers (due to Covid restrictions), a significant loss in donations (again, due to Covid), a tremendous increase in… Read More

April showers often bring May flowers, but at DAWGS we find it also brings lots and lots of puppies and dogs looking for their forever homes. Here are some of our May additions that went to our adoption partners in Colorado and Oregon.               And then we had sweet Muffin come in…and everyone fell in love with her. Not only is she super cute, she bounces when she walks, and she squeaks when she… Read More

April 1, 2003 was the first day our shelter was officially in business. On that day, we received a visit from the local animal control agent with five dogs and seven puppies for us to take in immediately, or he would be headed to the vet (and not in a good way!). All the students called their parents and we found temporary fosters for every animal and we never slowed down from that point on! April 1, 2020 is a… Read More

We recently had our logo redesigned by My House of Design in preparation for the book launch in March! We had such exciting designs to choose from. Take a look below to see how hard it was to select a winner: And the winner is…..drumroll…