Featured Shelter
August 1, 2025 - August 15, 2025
Bitter Root Humane Association
The Bitter Root Humane Association is a private non-profit organization, which receives no ongoing taxpayer funding, is totally funded through the generous donations and support of our community.
The Bitter Root Humane Association was formed in 1972 by a group of local animal lovers. In 1984, Countess Margarite Bessenyey gave the group land on Fairgrounds Road and Betty Cook, as President, led volunteers in raising money to build a shelter. That building served as a temporary home for countless animals for over 35 years. During that time, the shelter also housed hundreds of animals during the major wildfires of 2000 through 2016, and took in animals from numerous neglect and hoarding cases, including the recent, highly publicized Husky case. Time, however, took its toll and that shelter became unsafe and non-functional for our staff, volunteers and animals that call the shelter home. In March of 2020, after over a decade of fundraising efforts, construction began on a new, modern shelter which opened to the public in July 2021. We are proud to say, we have no time or space limits to finding the perfect home for our “guests”!
June 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Beaverhead Animal Shelter
The Beaverhead Animal Shelter campaign is now over. After we fulfill all remaining orders and do our final accounting, we will announce how much you supporters were able to help raise for the shelter.
March 1, 2025 - April 13, 2025
Lewis & Clark Humane Society
“the Dog and Me” did doggone good!
We had an incredible start to our very first campaign to raise money for Montana small-market, no-kill animal shelters through sales of our fun products. As a result, we are absolutely thrilled that $1000 from our sales (100% of our profits), plus ANOTHER $1000 donated to us by Stockman Bank in Helena, equals a total of $2000 for our very first beneficiary: the Lewis & Clark Humane Society (LCHS) in Helena.
We met our $1000 goal, and Stockman Bank’s generosity makes our total donation twice as powerful. And, as we had envisioned for our partnership with shelters, LCHS staff worked hard and creatively with us to support the project.
Amazing folks across Helena, across Montana, and across the country bought our monogrammed hats, dog bowls, and tumblers; some even made donations on top of buying our products. We are so grateful to all who embraced our efforts in this first initiative. We are also thrilled to announce that our next featured animal shelter will be the Beaverhead Animal Shelter. Their campaign will run from June 1 – June 30, 2025.