Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab takes successful animals of each ages – including litters of young pups! In astir cases, puppies and big dogs are fixed the veterinary attraction they request earlier being taken successful by fosters until they find their everlastingly homes.
LOCATION: Moab, UT
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 2017
NUMBER OF STAFF/VOLUNTEERS/FOSTER HOMES
Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab has 2 antithetic kinds of staffing — ranch and office. The six members of the ranch unit unrecorded onsite and bash each the feeding and cleaning. The six bureau unit members facilitate grants, fundraising, adoption coordinating, matchmaking and process protocols. “We person a batch of astonishing volunteers but astir 15 who continuously assistance retired whenever we request them,” says Cheyleen Payson, the rescue’s Fundraising Coordinator. “We person 400 fosters. A batch of our fosters are lone present for abbreviated periods, but we person astir 50 we tin ever beryllium on.”
TYPES OF ANIMAL THEY WORK WITH
Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab is the lone enactment successful Utah that exclusively serves stray companion dogs connected Native American Reservations. “One 100 percent of our dogs are ‘res’ dogs,” says Cheyleen. “There are astir 250,000 stray dogs surviving connected the Navajo and Ute reservations. Life expectancy for these dogs is astir 2 years without intervention.”
FUNDRAISING PROJECTS
As a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, fundraising is simply a monolithic portion of the organization. They big a yearly “Dog Paddle” and clasp “puppy showers” and store sales, arsenic good arsenic monthly spay/neuter/vaccination clinics that are escaped of complaint to residents of the reservations. “We often get a bully magnitude of donations during these clinics,” says Cheyleen. “We besides enactment with different organizations that stock the aforesaid interests and morals arsenic we do. For example, we’re presently moving a fundraiser with Hugo Coffee roasters. For 1 week, a information of their proceeds spell to us.”
FAVORITE RESCUE STORY
“We were contacted 1 time by a tourer driving on a road connected the Navajo Nation, northbound of Monument Valley, AZ, who had made a startling find — a canine sitting astatine the broadside of the road adjacent to a cardboard container with cars and trucks whizzing by. The tourer turned astir to spot if the canine was okay, and was amazed to find respective tiny pups, 1 oregon 2 days old, successful the cardboard box.
“The vigor of summertime would person killed those tiny pups successful conscionable hours had they not been rescued. The Good Samaritan scooped them up and changed their abrogation plans to bring the small household straight to Underdog. Kele, the ma of the pups, is simply a beauteous canine with a beauteous tone and we are truthful blessed to person been portion of her story.”
The station Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab appeared archetypal connected Animal Wellness Magazine.