5 Reasons Dog Lovers Are Choosing This Over Animal Charity.
By Karen Mitchell Veterinary Nurse | 14 Years in Shelters
Let me save you the time and the guilt I wasted.
After 14 working in shelters, I thought I'd made my peace: there are more dogs than homes, and you help the ones in front of you.
But at home, scrolling at night, the numbers didn't help. Another skinny dog on a street I'd never see. Another post that said "share if you care."
So I did what everyone does.
I donated to the big organizations.
I shared the posts. I sent money. I filled out a foster application and quietly closed the tab when I remembered my two dogs, my hours and my landlord.
Some of it felt good for a day.
But every time, I was back in the same place: a thank-you email, a tax receipt, and no idea whether a single dog have been better because of me.
Then I realized something.
The problem wasn't that I didn't care enough. It was that I never got to see where my help went.
Most ways of helping ask you to give and then trust. The money goes somewhere, and that's the last you hear of it.
Pawssible was different.
Instead of a receipt, they send you video of their own team feeding the dogs your order helped fund, in a place you can name, by people you can name.
After my first update arrived, I understood why people keep coming back.
1. A Dog Who Had Nothing Ate Because of Me