Bark Nation is an animal welfare organization in the Metro Detroit, MI area whose mission focuses strongly on three initiatives:
#PitnessProtection!
The largest part of Bark Nation’s daily expenditures and volunteer hours is dedicated to our #PitnessProtection program. This program encompasses dogfighting investigations, seizure, live-evidence sheltering and #LifeAfterDogfighting placement. Our P2Shelter is state registered, and provides reprieve and healing to up to 100 amazing survivors of dogfighting at a time. We uphold strongly humane sheltering, enrichment, force-free handling and are insanely generous with our swooning and kisses. While some dogs have longer or shorter stays with us, the average stay as live-evidence thus far is 4.5 months. Learn more about P2 here!
Shelter Enrichment!
Many shelters are adopting Shelter Enrichment programs, including enhanced cleaning protocols, bedding, physical stimulation, mental stimulation, training, olfactory enrichment, and more! We LOVE being a part of this process with shelters, and ensuring they have the supplies and training they need to succeed at keeping the dogs they house happy, healthy and enriched. Our biggest (and probably favorite) Shelter Enrichment initiative is KONGSgiving! Once a year, our team stuffs thousands of KONGs and delivers them to shelters all across Michigan and Ohio. We get to see happy dogs with their Thanksgiving meal, and the shelters get to keep the KONGs to provide enrichment all year round. Win-win!
Is your shelter looking for training on Shelter Enrichment? Are your pups in need of life-saving enrichment items? Contact our team!
Project Grace Detroit!
If there are two things that Bark Nation strives to encompass in everything we do, they are #1 – COLLABORATE!, and #2 – take a solutions-oriented approach. Do you have ANY idea how many pets have ‘oops litters’ in under-served communities? How many individuals have never heard of spay/neuter? How many pet owners jump at the chance to sign their pets up for community clinics if they know there will not be the burden of judgment or payment?
Bark Nation and Dog Aide have teamed up since 2016 to offer FREE services to dogs of Detroit residents – sterilization, vaccinations, microchip and City license. Clinics run from early spring to late fall every year. Check out our Project Grace facebook page! Are you a Detroit resident looking for sterilization services? Contact sndetroitdogs@gmail.com or call (313)855-5866!
HUGE thank you to the Stand Up For Pits Foundation and to Petco Foundation for helping us save lives in Detroit!