As PAWS & More Animal Shelter in Washington raised $7,000 with its Jordan’s Way livestream fundraiser in March, they seek to gain the same dollar amount with a new matching challenge.

Shelter Director Amber Talbot shares that a family has pledged a $3,500 matching donation for what is titled “Bea’s Fund,” in honor of a dog they adopted from the shelter, “She was a very fearful dog that was found with two other puppies in a rural area park back in 2007. And it was clear she had very little human contact and any medical care her whole life and so they worked with Bea and socialized her and she blossomed into a wonderful dog who actually got to kind of travel the world and she was loved by so many.”

Talbot says these funds will be spent to provide professional training and support for dogs that come to them emotionally damaged and/or abused. The shelter recently took in six dogs that were part of a group of 20 found living in a forest in Missouri, starving and suffering from mange. Talbot looks forward to Bea’s Fund becoming an ongoing source to help treat these types of cases, and the shelter is grateful for their recent online fundraisers as they’ve canceled larger fundraiser events in the past year due to the pandemic. They’ve so far raised over $500, and you can help them get to their $3,500 goal by visiting here.