Telluride Animal Foundation

07/10/2025

07/05/2025

Montrose Shelter. At its absolute Max

07/02/2025

Oh no… please read. Fires 🔥

07/02/2025

Volunteers needed!!!!!!!

06/27/2025

There is so much need. Keep sharing. And keep caring ❤️❤️❤️🐕🐕🐕

06/16/2025

Fosters needed in Durango!!! Parker's Animal Rescue

06/13/2025

Puppies in montrose!!! Montrose Animal Services

06/09/2025

Help
Where you can 💕💕💕

06/02/2025

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To say im tired would be a gross understatement. I’m exhausted, defeated. I don’t even know if there is an accurate word for what I feel. Yesterday, a typical day for me, I received 319 individual communications from social media messages to emails and text messages. In an 8hr day, that’s 40 communications an hour. Topics included: programming information, grant questions, adoption questions, transport logistics, health of the dogs, return requests, surrender requests, pleas from shelters and volunteerteers.

I have three returns scheduled for the first week of June. I have 3 dogs from various shelters that I have already committed to. We are trying to clear the ranch so that we can help the shelters before they get slammed on the Fourth of July. I’m trying to save really good dogs from being killed because no one has shown interest in adopting them or because they are sick. I’m trying to establish new relationships with rescues so that we can transport more dogs out of the area. I’m trying to be a good leader to my team and make sure they are supported. I start getting messages at 6 in the morning and it usually doesn’t stop until 10 or 11 at night, seven days a week.

I love what I do…. I try to take breaks but then the messages just stack up or I miss a message and a dog loses its life. I respond too late and one of our dogs ends up at the shelter because an owner couldn’t bother to wait for me before they gave up on their dog. It can all be too much sometimes. I’m not alone. Every rescuer feels this pressure. The weight of the world, the lack of time. It makes it hard to breath sometimes. It feels hopeless. It is overwhelming.

We need your help now more than ever. I’m sure people get tired of seeing my posts. I don’t get a ton of shares but I put everything I have into spreading awareness, advocating for dogs, and just trying to reach someone that can help. I won’t stop, I can’t stop. Too many lives hang in the balance but I need help. I don’t even know what I need exactly. Most of the people I know are putting the same amount of effort and energy into saving lives as I am. They are tired too.

I guess my ask is this: if you aren’t already involved, please get involved. Share a post once a week. Go to the shelter once a month, donate a dollar a month to a rescue, foster a dog, take a dog out for the day and get photos of it and share it on your social media, adopt a dog, talk to your friends and family about ways they can help. There are so many ways to help shelters and rescues. Some require a lot of time and effort but some really only require the click of a button. We need everyone to be involved.

Connor Long
Marley’s Mutts
Operations Manager