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Together, We’re Filling Bowls & Hearts

IT’S GIVING TUESDAY and a chance to double your impact!  Last year Tito’s Vodka for Dog People’s generous matching gift of $10,000 along with all of your generosity stocked our pet pantry for the entire year!

You read that right: YOUR contributions along with Tito’s Vodka for Dog People’s matching gift is the reason that pets in our community did not go hungry in 2025. 

We are so excited that Tito’s Vodka for Dog People is doing it AGAIN this year! They will match every donation you make to betterTogether Forever up to a total of $10,000 beginning Giving Tuesday (TODAY!) through the end of the year to keep our pantry shelves full.

And we need the pantry busting at the seams in 2026!
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Gratitude & Togetherness This Thanksgiving

As we gather around our tables this Thursday, we also hold space in our hearts for those who can’t be with the ones they love. This year, so many families in our community have faced separation, uncertainty, and rising housing, food, and financial insecurity.

Your continued support of betterTogether Forever brings comfort and stability to pet families in crisis, helping them stay together when they need each other most. Thanksgiving isn’t just about sharing a meal; it’s about sharing kindness, giving thanks, and lifting one another up.
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Seeking Swingers for a Good Time

Please join us Friday, October 6th at the DeBell Golf Course in Burbank, when we hit the greens for our 2nd Annual Golf Tournament to raise critical funds for pets in our community! While golfing is admittedly the main event, you need not be a golfer to take part. In addition to playing, you can attend the reception complete with buffet, drinks, and silent auction, be an event or hole sponsor with marketing perks, and donate items to the silent auction. There is something for everyone, so please
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Invest in Each Other

With only a few days left until 2024, we take one look back on 2023 and focus our sights on the year ahead. It’s been an incredibly rough year for many—pets, people, and entire communities. People suffered through labor strikes, job loss, inflation, legislation changes, and housing insecurity. And their pets suffered right along with them. When their people could no longer provide for them, pets found themselves being surrendered to overcrowded animal shelters. Rescues took in what they could...
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Support Pets on the Picket Line!

Behind many of our greatest writers and actors is a faithful dog or cat celebrating their triumphs and supporting them through their struggles.These loyal pets provide comfort, companionship, inspiration, and joy, and never judge or criticize. But now these dogs and cats need our help!
The members of SAG-AFTRA took to the picket lines on July 14th joining WGA members who had already been on strike for over two months. It has been a long, hard summer for writers and their support staff who have been out of work for over 100 days now. Productions should be ramping up for the fall seasons, but scripts aren’t being written, casting calls aren’t happening, and crews are out of work.
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Together We Can Make 2022 Shine

At midnight December 31 the chapter closes on 2021, and there begins a fresh blank page. While the future is unwritten, at betterTogether Forever we know the pages to come will have people and pets in need and challenges we all need to surmount. But we also know you will be there, right along with us in our mission, helping those pets and people, and overcoming every obstacle. Your contribution to the story is paramount. What you provide goes beyond dollars, food and supplies. It is hope...
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Around the Table

For some, Thanksgiving brings to mind images of a cornucopia of foods on an endless dining room table. For many, this is not the reality. But Thanksgiving is not about what is on the table, but rather who is around it. This Thursday, we hope you are able to gather with your loved ones whether they be friends, family, neighbors and of course pets. Share your gratitude for each other, the bond you have, and the ability to come and be together.
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A message of gratitude from Anabel and Kyra

No one is ever really prepared for an emergency, especially when that emergency involves your beloved pet. If you’re experiencing financial hardship and your pet is all you have, that emergency is ever more dire. When Anabel’s dog Kyra was attacked in a park and the attacking dog’s guardian left without taking responsibility, Anabel had nowhere to turn—except to Bark Avenue Foundation. Thanks to generous supporters like yourself, Kyra was able to receive emergency vet care, undergo surgery and...
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Holiday Magic

The global pandemic has taken much from us this year, but it cannot take the true meaning of the holiday season: magic. For the magic comes not in some prettily wrapped box or in large gatherings; the magic of the season is in each of us and is expressed in every act of kindness, every deed we do for someone else with no thought of anything in return, or any deed done for us. This year, we saw you all share your magic. Being socially distant did not deter you from touching other’s lives.
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Giving Thanks

Traditionally, Thanksgiving has always been a holiday of Homecoming. College students return from school, military personnel fly thousands of miles, and family members everywhere gather together to all sit around a table together for one special meal. Like every holiday in 2020, Thanksgiving will be a little different. This year, many gatherings will be limited to those in the immediate family, and those who normally would take planes, trains and automobiles to make it home before dinner is served
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A Salute to All Moms

You cannot recognize a mother by the color of her hair, the length of her stride, or the clothes on her back. Mothers come in all shapes and sizes, creeds and colors, ages and ethnicities.
You will recognize her by the patience she has for a child’s nonsensical stories, her mastery of multi-tasking, and the quickness and ferocity at which she will come to the aid of a loved one. She has the gentleness that can dry tears, but the strength to stand up to anyone who thr