Support Rescue Dogs, Families, and Young Learners This Giving Tuesday!

This Giving Tuesday, join us and Wagtown in making a powerful difference for rescue dogs, children, families, and shelters across the globe. Through the purchase of Tucker Finds His Forever Home, a heartwarming story created by Wagtown’s founder, Beth Miller, every sale sends vital resources to animal advocates who work tirelessly to save lives.

Each book purchased provides:

• A free K-4 curriculum that helps young learners understand compassion, empathy, and responsibility toward animals.

• The “Tucker to the Rescue” Support Kit to equip shelters and rescues with tools that help find dogs their forever homes.

Together, these resources create a ripple effect, changing lives by fostering a love of animals in children, supporting shelters, empowering volunteers, and, most importantly, giving rescue dogs hope and a second chance.

🤓🖐 We need your help! 🖐🤓

Our goal is to get our dog-friendliness, anti-discrimination book into as many homes, libraries, rescues, and resource centers as possible. There are so many life lessons in “Tucker Finds His Forever Home” about self worth, breed discrimination, safety, emotions, and bullying. The story also focuses on some key messages about hope, resilience, and love. The social-emotional impact on children and their families through this story is undeniable. The book is inspiring, touching, fun to read and listen to, and full of opportunities to cheer on the main character throughout his journey.

"I read through your beautiful book and I LOVE it. Sweet Tucker made me cry--it's a lovely, touching, important book." ~ Katrina Kittle, Novelist

😍 BTW: Did you know? 😍

100% of book sale proceeds (that’s right, 100%) go directly to Wagtown’s vision for authentic and responsible dog-friendliness! No administrative costs or salaries. Just good deeds. Every book sale helps Wagtown get us all to a better place for both dogs and humans.

Synopsis:

Tucker book synopsis “Tucker Finds His Forever Home” tells the story of a young pit bull mix dog who is forced out of his home by his family’s landlord. He wakes up in a park and is confused by his surroundings and why everyone is afraid of him. The young dog runs for shelter in an alley where he dreams of his home. The next morning, the Animal Resource Center finds him and takes him to the shelter. Tucker is excited about his new surroundings, a soft bed, and high hopes of being adopted. Weeks go by and Tucker’s happiness fades as dog after dog is adopted and he is passed over because they think he is mean. One day, Tucker meets someone special. A woman named Lyla, who thinks he is just perfect the way he is. She adopts Tucker and takes him to her dog-friendly community to give him happiness, unconditional love, and a forever home. Tucker has fun adventures and feels completely accepted in this new town. He realizes that he isn’t a worthless dog after all. In the end Tucker found out that being himself is good enough.

Important lessons from the Tucker Finds His Forever Home include:

• We shouldn’t judge anyone by the way they look or because of what people say about them

• Being different is okay

• We should accept and respect individuals for who they are

• It didn’t matter what Tucker looked like, he deserved to be loved and cared for

• In the end, Tucker found out that being himself is good enough

NOTE: 100% of proceeds benefit animal welfare projects and programs. You can send a “Tucker to the Rescue” Support Package to your favorite rescue or shelter by clicking here! You can choose your level of ability to help. I thank you and the dogs thank you! WOOF

Beth Miller, Founder of Wagtown, is the nation’s top expert on dog-friendly communities, and how to bring responsibility and authenticity to the much overused term, “dog friendly.” Beth quit her job in 2016 after decades of experience in communications and marketing. She focused on nonprofit organizations and how to create culture shifts in communities across the United States.

Beth has been very active in communities across the United States as they take steps toward adding authenticity to promises of dog friendliness and integrate ways to encourage responsible dog owner behavior. Humane treatment of animals that does not discriminate by breed is a pivotal part of becoming dog friendly.

Her vision is to create a “Wagtown community” for everyone. Her journey led her to become increasingly passionate about speaking to young learners about animal welfare. Her approach of seeing the all-too-common experiences of discrimination and hope through the eyes of a young bully breed is eye opening for children and families.

One of our commitments for the book was to partner with a local artist. Erica Schindler is a self taught, dog loving artist from Dayton, Ohio. Though she creates with multiple mediums, she has found watercolor to be not only her personal favorite but also her most expressive work.

She tries to stay active with creation, so she’s always producing something new. Creating illustrations for a children’s book has always been a dream of hers, so when she was asked to help with “Tucker Finds His Forever Home,” she jumped on board.

Erica loves the ability to use color to describe feeling and imagery. The watercolors she creates are filled with relatable emotion.

Nala Mae: Rescue dog extraordinaire. Meet the dog who inspired the art! Nala Mae was in need of rescue. As a pup, she needed some TLC and socialization after a rough start in life. Before the first brushstroke, we did a Tom Gilliam photo shoot with Nala Mae’s foster (a police officer who found Nala Mae wandering … and later adopted her) . She’s a special pooch who had a fun time while we took pictures at a local park. Hats off to Adopt-a-Pit Rescue for caring for pooches in need of love and for coordinating the model for “Tucker Finds His Forever Home.”