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Step up. Step out. Save lives.

Best Friends Animal Society’s Strut Your Mutt is a walk and fundraiser held across the country, bringing entire communities together to save the lives of homeless pets.

You can join in on the fun and lifesaving! By participating, you’ll be supporting and raising funds for the animals of Best Friends or your favorite local participating animal welfare organization.

Fundraising begins August 1 and ends October 31.

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*All dates tentative and subject to change

Why do we strut?

We strut to save lives.

Every single day, more than 950 dogs and cats are killed in shelters, simply because they don’t have safe places to call home. We are determined to save their lives and create a no-kill country by 2025.

Those who participate in Strut Your Mutt can choose to support and raise funds for Best Friends or their favorite participating animal welfare organization. Join us and strut to save lives.

Thanks to people like you, this year we’ve raised:

In 2022, we've raised:

$60,068 of our goal: $1,300,000

Top Teams

Luv of Dogz Fund $15,366 Join Team

NorCal Boxer Rescue $9,239 Join Team

Shadow Cats $8,006 Join Team

Posh Pets Rescue $7,243 Join Team

Badass Animal Rescue $5,320 Join Team

Friends of Clay County Animals, Inc. $3,140 Join Team

Pug Nation Rescue Los Angeles $3,045 Join Team

Rebound Hounds $2,795 Join Team

TLC Humane Society $1,710 Join Team

Because Animals Matter $890 Join Team

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Top Participants

Linda Tennant $6,486 Donate

Hillary Shluker brose $3,645 Donate

Eva's Dog Camp $3,450 Donate

Linda Vetrano $3,000 Donate

Robin Parker $2,595 Donate

Kendall Taylor $2,455 Donate

Melissa Gregory $1,810 Donate

Alissa Arredondo $1,740 Donate

Susan Russell $1,670 Donate

Mary Brancato $1,283 Donate

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Make a gift to save lives.

Your contribution to Strut Your Mutt goes straight to work saving lives in your community and across the country, driving our goal of becoming a no-kill country by 2025.

Can’t participate in an event this year? You can still help by making a gift to the animals.

Make a Donation

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Have a question about Strut Your Mutt?

If you have a question about Strut Your Mutt, please contact us. We’ll connect you to the right person to help.

Submit Your Question

Raise money for your organization.

Participate in Strut Your Mutt as a network partner.

We’re saving lives all across the country by working with our network partners — more than 3,700 shelters, rescue groups and other animal welfare organizations in all 50 states.

Network partner organizations taking part in Strut Your Mutt raise the crucial funds needed to save the lives of more pets in their care. If you are a shelter or animal welfare organization interested in participating in this year’s Strut Your Mutt, you’ll need to be a Best Friends Network Partner to participate.

If you’re not yet a network partner, you can sign up today.

Become a Network Partner