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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 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:

$321,373 of our goal: $1,300,000

24.7%

Top Teams

NorCal Boxer Rescue $36,516 Join Team

Shadow Cats $34,932 Join Team

CAWS-Community Animal Welfare Society $29,456 Join Team

Luv of Dogz Fund $29,097 Join Team

Badass Animal Rescue $15,243 Join Team

Pug Nation Rescue Los Angeles $11,845 Join Team

Posh Pets Rescue $11,480 Join Team

Adopt Me Rescue $10,585 Join Team

English Springer Rescue America, Inc. $10,275 Join Team

Dogs Without Borders 2022 $9,465 Join Team

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Top Participants

Eva's Dog Camp $10,160 Donate

Linda Tennant $9,706 Donate

SE Esra $9,370 Donate

Sara Buyers $6,645 Donate

Lawrence Siracusa $6,320 Donate

John Mass $6,070 Donate

Hillary Shluker brose $5,495 Donate

Melissa Gregory $5,380 Donate

Van Noy Gloria $5,250 Donate

Alissa Arredondo $4,861 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

Best Friends Network Partners are raising money for their organizations

Network partner organizations taking part in Strut Your Mutt raise the crucial funds needed to save the lives of more pets in their care.

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.

This year, hundreds of these organizations from around the country will take part in Strut Your Mutt to raise money and save the lives of animals in their care.

Our Participating Partners