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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:

$2,311 of our goal: $1,300,000

Top Teams

Shadow Cats $5,313 Join Team

Luv of Dogz Fund $4,851 Join Team

NorCal Boxer Rescue $3,829 Join Team

Friends of Clay County Animals, Inc. $2,835 Join Team

Badass Animal Rescue $1,400 Join Team

Rebound Hounds $1,255 Join Team

TLC Humane Society $1,240 Join Team

Because Animals Matter $715 Join Team

Coppers Cat Commune $660 Join Team

CAWS-Community Animal Welfare Society $435 Join Team

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Top Participants

Linda Tennant $4,381 Donate

Kendall Taylor $2,195 Donate

Susan Russell $1,220 Donate

Katharine Knott $1,045 Donate

Hillary Shluker brose $845 Donate

Sheila Smith $665 Donate

Gena Jankowski $620 Donate

Karen Heald $520 Donate

Amanda Zvolanek $470 Donate

Julia Laroche $470 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