A pit bull mix puppy is held at Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue. (Steve Dipaola for the Columbian)Photo Gallery
Bert would like your attention. He’d also like it if you picked him up and carried him from room to room, maybe offered him a snack or two.
It’s worth mentioning that Bert is a puppy, one of 20 or so currently available at the new Mostly Mutts Animal Rescue in Camas.
The rescue is the brainchild of Bert’s human caretaker, Amy Reed, who’s spent the last 25 years operating a dog shelter out of her home. Reed has teamed up with her mother, Linda Strobeck, to expand the shelter and construct a new on-site building.
The shelter features eight kennels, a bathing station and whelping area for mothers and their puppies. There’s also a large green space that’s sure to attract plenty of runs and tumbles from puppies awaiting their forever homes.
Mostly Mutts was able to expand and save more lives thanks to the estate of Reed’s father, who died last year.
“He loved dogs, and I think he would be happy with how we chose to use the funds for something good,” Strobeck said in a press release.
Puppies and grown-up puppies come to Mostly Mutts from California most of the time, but Strobeck sometimes fills her car to the brim with dogs from shelters in either Arizona or Mexico, whichever location she’s leaving after a winter away.
“Some dogs are in poor health when we receive them, so we spend a lot of time and money to make sure that they have the best chance to live full, happy lives in their new homes,” Reed said in the press release. “We love every one of them.”
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