This July, Brown Dog turns two years old! We’d like to give everyone involved a pat on the back for helping save over 550 deserving dogs in our first two years as a rescue. The quality of our adoptions will always be the main focus of our rescue, so this number not only reflects the number of lives saved, but also lives enhanced. We are a young, shelter-less rescue, and yet we are thriving because of your continued support.
When we started out, these were our 3 biggest challenges:
Being foster-based.
Committing to dogs in need of extraordinary medical care.
Saving as many lives as possible, while never sacrificing the quality of our adoptions.
This is what we’ve done:
We have a small, dedicated base of truly amazing foster homes in both Alabama and Massachusetts… and we’re always looking for more!
With the help of our amazing donors and supporters, we are able to annually help over 100 deserving dogs receive extraordinary medical care.
Over 500 families have adopted a Brown Dog.
We check in at 3 days, 3 weeks, and 3 months on every single one of our adoptions to ensure families are thriving—we email, call, text, carrier pigeon to get those updates!
We have more than 2,500 followers on Facebook and 1,500 followers on Instagram.
We built an amazing team of problem-solvers, innovators and improvement-makers who make us better every day.
We make it work. We host adoption events at Naomi’s home rain or shine. We work around another rescue’s quarantine schedule. We take the harder to adopt dogs. If there is a challenge, we rise to it.
Our love of and passion for rescuing dogs continues to grow with each life we are able to help.
We are really proud of and grateful for everyone who has helped us along this journey. We’d be nowhere without the coalition of people behind Brown Dog. Our amazing community of compassionate, hard-working and genuinely good people make all of this possible.
So, what’s up next?
We are on track to help over 330 dogs this year.
We hope to help over 110 dogs who are in need of extraordinary medical care with the help of your donations.
Board members are going down to Alabama to volunteer at our partner shelter and see how we can make more of a difference to help solve the pet overpopulation problem.
Help us continue to grow into something life-changing for so many. Every adopter, foster, volunteer, supporter, advocate and of course, donation, no matter how small, helps save a dog in need.
Naomi and Andrea Covino
& Brown Dog Board of Directors