Oklahoma Alliance For Animals Helping Keep Outdoor Pets Warm

Volunteers are using dozens of bales of straw to help keep outdoor pets warm as temperatures drop. They tell News On 6 they want to help keep animals alive and educate pet owners. 

Tuesday, January 4th 2022, 5:39 pm



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Volunteers are using dozens of bales of straw to help keep outdoor pets warm as temperatures drop. They tell News On 6 they want to help keep animals alive and educate pet owners. 

Volunteers with Unchain OK are looking for faces like these. They search for dogs left outside in the cold without adequate shelter, food, or water. 

"We just try to go out and educate the people, the owners of these dogs to try to do the right thing," said Jamee Suarez with Oklahoma Alliance for Animals.

Suarez says the way to help these dogs is to make sure their owners have what they need.

"Unchain OK goes out with resources- we provide dog houses, straw, tie-outs, we offer free spay and neuter for our people who we go out and check on," said Suarez, "If we want to help the dog, we have to help the person."

This past weekend crews went out to neighborhoods all over Tulsa, dropping off dog houses and straw- making sure dogs left outside had what they needed to survive the frigid temperatures. 

"We always write with love, Unchained Oklahoma," said Suarez. 

They went through more than 60 bales of straw and need more dog houses because they went through so many. 

"Once they are our client, they are a client for life, and we try to take care of that dog and follow that dog until it doesn't need us any longer," said Suarez. 

Jamee is passionate about volunteers walking into every situation with kindness- not judgment and this weekend she was reminded of the importance of that mindset. The owner of one of the houses where she dropped off dog supplies and her phone number, called Jamee back.

"We don't know what people are going through-she had just lost her 13-year-old son who had been shot," said Suarez. 

Volunteers are going out doing what they can to help dogs, by doing what they can to help people. 

LEARN MORE: https://animalallianceok.org/about/


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