Other Shelters & Rescues Making our Design of the Elevated Dog Bed
 
 

Kellie,  I don’t think I ever told you thank-you for your help with our elevated dog beds. The girls did a great job making the beds and they turned out really nice. We donated them to Stray Rescue of St. Louis. 
Thanks so much for your help!
Lesley, St Louis MO
 
    October 2011
My name is Robert Moore and I wanted to thank you for your sacrifice, love, and service to a vulnerable part of our society. My son, Caleb Moore has a strong desire to help animals much like you. He was trying to find an Eagle Scout Project, so he visited a local animal shelter and then we came across your website. So, he decided to make 25 elevated dog beds for the shelter as his Eagle Project. Needless to say your instructions and YouTube video were extremely helpful.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks again,
Robert Moore

A Salt Lake City, Utah television station did a story on my son, your website and YouTube video.
So, you were highlighted all the way out here in Utah. Here is a link to the story:           
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=17517945     
Newpaper Article  http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/south/spanish-fork/article_73216a75-7e0e-5d47-893d-a83d3012a4f6.html

 
 

Thank you sooo much for your efforts toward making this project happen!  The paper didn't get all the details quite right of which beds/condos go where,
but that's OK.  We even have extra materials to make a few more. :)  You guys are great for helping so many dogs you'll never see and people you'll never meet.
Happy Trails and Waggin' Tails!           Jan Kleopfer
Hot diggity digs for dogs    Saturday, May 30, 2009   Madison County Courier  Madison Co Indiana

Freshman Cody Miller helps to steady a "dog condo" frame as sophomore Patrick Green attaches the cloth material to the frame, and sophomore Kyle Stephan uses a band saw to cut PVC pipe to size for the frame in the construction technology class at Madison Consolidated High School.

The students' work was for the Elevated Dog Bed Project. The beds, also called dog condos, are for local shelters and rescue operations, and is being funded by Bridges for Animals in Madison and the Scottsburg Environmental Club at Scottsburg High School. Additional materials were provided by the Columbus Dog Connection in Ohio. Six large and two small beds will go to the Leota Animal Rescue facility in Scottsburg and two will go the Madison-Jefferson County Animal Shelter in Madison.

The project is one of several community service projects that the MCHS construction technology class took on this school year. Last week, the students also made picnic tables for the Kent Volunteer Fire Department and the Faith Alliance Church in Madison. Teacher Mike Frazier said the projects are good for the local organizations and for the students because they get to build things that will be of use in their hometowns. (Staff photos by Ken Ritchie)
        
 

Elevated Dog Project Helps Dogs in Winter Haven Florida
update: June 2010
Hi Kellie,

I have talked to you by email a few times over the past year. I just wanted to give you an update on our progress. Save Our Homeless Pets, a local animal organization I volunteer for, has just donated another 100 of the large elevated beds to Polk County Animal Control in Winter Haven. They were delivered this afternoon.
We also donated 105 in February, which brings the total to 205.
In addition, we have also recovered 61 to date with new fabric to be used again (which included some of the beds the local high school featured on your site had donated in Dec).
Thanks for the wonderful website and easy to follow instructions.
Tara Simpson,   Save Our Homeless Pets,

Doggie Do Gooders Make Our Beds in Winter Haven Florida
Read the entire article
 

Mary Garcia says the first thing she did when she returned home was check the Internet for dog beds. Garcia discovered a Web site from Ohio for Columbus Dog Connection, www.ColumbusDogConnection.com. This team of a few "Doggedly Dedicated Dogmanity Do'ers," pooled its creative talents and came up with an easy and inexpensive way for anyone to build an elevated dog bed.

The Web site home page shows a photo of the inspiration for a dog bed idea. The photo shows dogs in a rural shelter in Ohio sleeping on wet floors and one dog appears to be slumbering in what resembles a litter box.  The Web site was just what Garcia needed to get started in her efforts to help the Polk County dogs that wait on adoption row for a good home. The site provides step-by-step instructions, a list of materials needed, and a list of suppliers who carry them.

      


Dogmanity in Pendelton Co Kentucky
by Luv 4 K9's in Dayton  2007
      
             
August 30, 2008  We had a ball !!  18 people turned out Saturday.  We had a bed making party last Sunday.  All 25 dogs got beds, their kennels cleaned, walked, brushed and got new toys, lots of treats and rawhides.  We got Stanley Steamer to steam the floors. We took 8 big tubs full of food and for storage...enough food for a couple of months. We ran two outlets for wet vacs/fans, fixed the hot water heater, repaired cages, introduced dogs to people who might be able to get them out of that shelter.  Thank you for sharing Dogmanity with us.  We love your website, we send a lot of adopters, fosters and people who email us asking how they can help with puppy mill dogs to the Columbus Dog Connection web site.  We never miss a Mingle With Our Mutts Adoption event in Dayton or a chance to tell anyone about the Columbus Dog Connection Habitat for Dogmanity and Elevated Dog Bed program. 
 

How our beds helped a long term  shelter pooch in New York

                         
So far I've made a number of the beds for my local feral cat rescue and local dog shelter. It's going well and my husband and I really enjoy making them.
I actually have a wonderful story about the first bed we made. Attached is a photo of Turbo.....he'd been at the Schuyler Shelter for MORE THAN A YEAR. He got the first bed we sent to Schuyler and this is a photo of him using it. He LOVED it they said. Funny thing is, within one week of getting the bed, he was FINALLY adopted. They said he stopped "rushing" the front of his cage whenever someone came to see him because he was so cozy on his bed. People finally started noticing him for the nice dog he was and BINGO.....he has a wonderful home now! Gave me goosebumps when they told me. I thought that was pretty cool. Sure makes me want to make more beds.....for Harlan in Kentucky and as many other places as possible.       From Donna in New York
 
 

Ft Lauderdale FL        
                        



Hello Kellie,
I wanted to thank you and your wonderful organization for the elevated dog bed directions you posted on your web page!  Some good friends and I recently started volunteering at a local shelter in Ft. Lauderdale and quickly realized that their larger guests were in desperate need of some good, comfy beds! 
Thanks to the magic of Google, I stumbled across your directions and within a month or so, we had networked our way into getting the PVC and awning donated and birthday donations provided funds for the 3 way corner pieces.  We put out the word to friends and co-workers and organized a group of 30 people who cranked out 58 beds in just under 3 hours JWhoever came up with those plans is a certifiable genius as they were unbelievably easy to put together and your directions could not have been more clear and easy to follow.  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.  I have attached a couple photos to show you what an amazing idea you had and what an amazing impact these beds had on the dogs who received them (not to mention the overjoyed shelter staff when we showed up to deliver them!)
Thanks for all the good work you do,
Warmest regards,
Jennifer  Hessley
 
 Delaware County Ohio 2007

       
 
 
 

Dearborn County Indiana

I thought that you might like to see the dog beds that we built for the local animal shelter.  Since we have built these we have had requests for other rescues and shelters for beds and we would like to build more but we will need more material.  So we would like to built 20 more beds.  Home Depot donated the PVC so all we had to pay for was the corner pieces. These are just some of the beds....this picture is going into our local paper and we are going to present this idea to council for other Girl Scout troops to do. 

Thanks!
Vicki Reiter
I wanted to get back with you to let you know that we will not be needing anymore awning material to make more dog beds because we have found plenty of companies willing to donate here in Cincinnati...Queen City Awning just gave us a complete 50 yard roll of brand new material because it was discontinued...in fact I cannot get to all the places that are willing to donate material.
 
We dropped our first set of beds off at the Dearborn County Animal Shelter and will be taking our net batch to the Rising Sun/Franklin County Animal Shelter and then we are going to take a few to the local vets for the older dogs that need to spend the night for various reasons.
 

Naples Florida
2008

My husband and I made 31 beds for our shelter a few weeks ago and when we went this past weekend to see how the dogs were enjoying them we were a bit disappointed.
We made them for Domestic Animal Services in Naples FL