Always and Furever will celebrate its five-year anniversary this year. The rescue has saved more than 5,000 animals and has over 400,000 social media followers from around the world. The rescue operates three locations in the Kansas City area with plans to move the entire operation to its Homestead, a 40-acre tract of land the rescue owns in Spring Hill, Kansas.
“With every fiber of my being, I see and feel Always & Furever being the name that changes rescues. Running a rescue should not be just paying a fee with the state, filing a form and taking donations while locking animals in stacked cages and waiting for someone else to love them and calling that saving lives and sadly so many rescues do just that,” Jen says.
Always and Furever is “not your average shelter.” With the help of a dedicated staff, hundreds of volunteers and a governing board, the rescue’s goal is to make every day special for the animals in its care. Animals go on dog dates, hotel sleepovers and to short- and long-term fosters. Dogs at the rescue’s Little Red Barn can be found lounging on couches, playing outdoors and engaging in enrichment while they wait for their furever homes.
The Always and Furever mission statement is at the heart of everything they do:
Imagine a place where old dogs, sick dogs, abused dogs, abandoned dogs, and unwanted dogs all came together, to rest, live, play and snuggle. Where meals come morning and night, classical music is always playing and love overflows. The only choice they have to make is which couch or dog bed to lay on and which visitor to pick to smother with kisses. Just a place for dogs to be. To wait in the comforts of a home until they can find a family of their own who won’t throw them away when they are old or sick or even dying. To know they are loved for who they are, at this moment, and then to love us in return regardless of their past. To be the model of forgiveness and in return teach us to be better, kinder humans and to always know that even if in a small way we can always make a difference. This is our mission. This is our little red barn. A home for so many souls others discarded and we can’t imagine living without.
4Knines is proud to shine a light on the outstanding work of Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary. Please join us in supporting their mission. Every donation helps to provide a home for the unwanted, a sanctuary for the troubled, and a safe haven of peace.
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