Today is
#GivingTuesday and we are hoping you select Doberman Underground as your charity of choice ❤️. Whether you donate $1, $5, $20 or $100, it all adds up.
We have always been transparent with you all, so today we wanted to share some statistics.
1. We have taken in 150 dogs in 2023.
2. Our Vet bills for this year totaled $186,574.
Our vet expenses are DOUBLE what they were last year 😳! How were we able to stay afloat? Well, we have all of you to thank for that. You stepped up each time we have asked. You have shown up again and again, which gives us the ability to not turn our backs on dogs with high medical expenses. Has it been easy? Absolutely not, and it is why we continue to fundraise.
Sadly, there are skeptics that say we “make money” on our adoption fee. Our question to them is how? When you average out the numbers above, we spend roughly $1,243.83 per dog. If you subtract the $350 adoption fee, we are in the red $893.83 per dog!
Would we have changed a thing? No! It is easy to say, don’t take in these extreme medical cases. However, our response to that is we will keep taking in dogs that need us! These poor, helpless animals deserve a fighting chance. Remember Barbie, Ken and Skipper? They were our Parvo Trio that cost nearly $20,000 themselves. Sadly Skipper didn’t make it, but Barbie and Ken are thriving in their foster homes. We fought for Xena and Buffy when no one else would. Sadly they didn’t make it, but the end of their lives were full of love 🌈. We also had Billy who had surgery on his leg, Shakira who had hip surgery, Selena who was severely underweight and had a severe case of Demodex mange, Maisey who ate a sock and needed emergency surgery, and the list goes on and on.
We want you to know your donations are going directly to these dogs. We do not have a large sum of money sitting in the bank, it is consistently being used (as it should).
So from the bottom of our hearts and all 150 dogs rescued this year, thank you 🙏🏼. Please feel free to donate below or on our website at
https://dudobes.org. If you wish to purchase supplies from our Amazon Wishlist go to
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3R3P2824NUS0G/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex.