Aska's Animals Foundation | Victor, ID Animal Welfare Nonprofit

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Puppy Palace Residents

Take a peek at who’s currently living on the property, their unique stories, and where they’ll be available for adoption!

Puppy Palace #1

The @simonsits litter arrived from El Paso Animal Services thanks to Dog Is My Copilot. The mom, Isabel, was allegedly found as a stray. We don’t have anymore details on them but we are so happy they are here with us now. Follow along on their journey!

Puppy Palace #2

Betsy and the Charlotte’s Web litter came from our friends in California, The Spay(ce) Project. They stumbled upon an encampment in the desert that had 60+ dogs and puppies who were at risk of losing their lives because they problem had gotten out of control. We signed onto a mom and litter of puppies and our friends at Modern Beast loaded up them up in a car and transported them LA to Victor! Betsy and her 12 puppies will be adoptable through the Animal Adoption Center at the end of June!

Puppy Palace #3

Mazzie and her eight puppies (named after birthstones) arrived from our friends at Idaho Humane Society. She was surrendered to them after a child in her family developed allergies. Days after arriving to the shelter she gave birth to puppies. They will spend the next six weeks with us and be adoptable through Idaho Humane Society when they are adoption age!

Bonus Litter

Named after one of our favorite coffee shops, Art’s Coffee, these six puppies are our bonus litter. They hail from Toolele, UT before arriving with us on 5/30. They will be adoptable through Rilo’s Rescue middle-end of July! More photos and details to come as they get settled.

Children’s Book

Our first kid’s book!

Wings, tails, horns, and fur. Woof, whiskers, beaks, and purrs. Children and animal rescue enthusiasts will enjoy this colorful book written by Hope Nartonis and illustrated by Grace Peck featuring the long-term residents of Aska’s Animals. The pages are full of eyes, ears, noses, and tails to highlight that Aska’s Animals are all different, and all are welcome at the Aska’s Animals farm. While enjoying illustrations of cats, dogs, chickens, pigs, goats, and horses, children will learn how to help homeless animals.

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About Us

Welcome to Aska’s Animals, where we are rethinking animal welfare with a long-term approach. Our strategy focuses on raising puppies that have unfortunately found their way into the shelter system—pups who statistically face a higher risk of behavior challenges, disease, and the possibility of returning to shelters later in life or becoming less adoptable. We are committed to providing canine owners, shelters, rescues, and anyone in need with behavior support and education to keep dogs in homes, increase their adoptability, and reduce their time in shelters. Additionally, our expansive space allows us to offer sanctuary to rescued farm animals, giving them a safe place to live out their days.

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Meet our Residents

Aska’s Animals provides both temporary care and long-term residency to animals in need. Our long-term sanctuary residents include chickens, pigs, goats, cats, and dogs. You’ll also see Aska’s childhood horse roaming around, enjoying their retirement, and supervising our work. The animals that live here are simply allowed to be animals. They don’t have to earn their share of attention or fear being euthanized for space. Our staff and volunteers meet each animals’ needs including daily enrichment, medical care, and community. Since the farm residents will live out their days with us, our Puppy Palaces are always open to new puppies, providing them with a temporary home as we raise and prepare them for adoption into loving families.

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Programs & Partnerships

At Aska’s Animals, our mission is built on three core pillars: Rescue, Canine Behavior, and Sanctuary. Each pillar supports a range of unique programs and partnerships, all aimed at fostering a compassionate community in Teton Valley and beyond. Collaboration with local and regional animal welfare partners is a cornerstone of our work. Through initiatives like Puppy Palaces, Behavior Workshops, one-on-one training, shelter consulting, and our sanctuary program, Aska’s Animals demonstrates a deep commitment to the belief that teamwork is essential for success in animal rescue.

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Volunteer

We’re always looking for volunteers to visit the farm, to socialize with our short- and long-term animal residents and to keep their accommodations clean and organized. Please fill out a volunteer application and sign up for one of our monthly volunteer orientations if you are interested in volunteering with us.

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Donate

We deeply appreciate contributions of any size, as they directly support our mission to care for homeless animals in need. Your generosity helps us provide essential services such as spay/neuter procedures, vaccinations, food, and cleaning supplies, as well as covering the countless hours our staff dedicates to caring for the animals. We are truly grateful for your support in making this compassionate work possible.

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Betsy and her kids have come a long way in life. This family's journey started in Los Angeles with the amazing people at @thespayceproject. Through the power of collaboration, they made their way to us, and next week, they begin their adoption journey through the @animaladoptioncenterjhwy . Through it all, @modernbeast has advocated and helped support this amazing group of dogs. As we get ready for Betsy and her family to move on to their next phase, we celebrated with some puppy yoga at @modernbeast with @dayhikeapp and @animaladoptioncenterjhwy

We are truly grateful for the community locally and beyond, who help us rewrite the ending for all the dogs that come through our Puppy Palace program.

Currently, we are in the midst of a very impactful 6-week giving period called the Tin Cup Challenge where donations are matched by the @cftetonvalley challenger fund. This is the time that your $5 donation goes even further, and we would be so grateful for your financial support to make our work possible.

The link to make a donation is in our bio.

From the bottoms of our paws, thank you for being on this journey with us, and together, we can continue to rewrite the ending for so many more animals.

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Your donations through Tin Cup help us rewrite the stories of animals who were simply dealt a tough hand. Because of the Tin Cup Challenge — and the generosity of @cftetonvalley and their challengers — every dollar you give during this campaign is partially matched, making an even bigger impact on the lives we care for.

Thank you for being part of this work. Let’s rewrite some stories together. 🐶 🐷 🐱 🐐 🐓 🐰

📸 @sheltervisibilityproject

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We have some very exciting news—Isabel and the @simonsits litter will be adoptable through Aska’s Animals starting in early July! 💥

After seeing the incredible response to their story, we realized something: there are amazing potential adopters right here in our own backyard. Instead of sending them to an adoption partner and adding another stop on their journey, we’re cutting out the middle step and placing them directly into loving homes—hopefully yours. 🐶

For those new here, adoption isn’t usually our lane—it’s a whole operation of its own. We focus on the work many of our partners can’t do: caring for moms and litters in-house for extended stays. And our partners? They’re experts at managing the logistics and long-term follow-up that comes with finding the perfect home. But this time, it just made sense to keep it in the family.

A little about this crew: Isabel is a sweet and curious dachshund mix, and we’re still learning more about her. Her puppies are just over five weeks old and likely to stay small-breed—we don’t know who dad was, but the pups are confident, social, and adorable. Four girls and one boy.

If you’re interested in being considered for adoption, send us an email at info@askasanimals.org with a little about yourself. We can’t wait to find these pups the homes they deserve. ❤️

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Every animal has a story. Help us rewrite the ending.

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Meet the @simonsits Litter 🐾
A small tribute to Isabel (@simonsits) and the waves she’s making in animal rescue. A reminder that one person fostering a dog in need can truly move the needle in the right direction for animal welfare.

This mama dog—who we’ve named Isabel, after the internet’s favorite foster mom—and her puppies (including little Tiki, named after her current foster pup) arrived today from @epanimalsvc thanks to the incredible team at @dogismycopilotinc. Their backstory is bleak—they were found as strays with not much more info. Unfortunately, Texas is currently the state with the highest annual number of animal euthanasias.

We always prioritize our regional rescue partners first, but when there’s space to help others that likely have a much more grim outcome, we rally. Hence… four litters of puppies currently seeking shelter with us here on the farm.

If you’re not already following @simonsits, she is doing game-changing work for animals in need. Watching Tiki’s journey is a beautiful reminder of how fostering can change one dog’s life—and ripple out to change so many more. Isabel and her puppies will be adoptable with our friends at @idahohumanesociety when they’re ready in a few weeks.

And don’t forget to be brave like Tiki. ✨

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Friday night on the farm because rescue doesn’t do normal business hours.

If you’ve found yourself here, welcome to the soapbox. Meet Mazzie. She was surrendered to the shelter after a child in her family was diagnosed with allergies. Life things happen and we get it.

What shouldn’t happen is this: Mazzie giving birth shortly after arriving at the shelter with an accidental litter.

Her paperwork says she was purchased from a breeder. And we can’t say this loud enough: ethical breeders take their dogs back when life throws a curveball. In fact, they require it. We don’t know if her breeder refused or perhaps didn’t know but the result is the same. Nine new dogs are now in the shelter system.

That means nine tiny lives needing weeks in our Puppy Palace, nine spay/neuter surgeries, vaccines, dewormers, food, and round-the-clock care before they’re even ready to find homes.

We were already over our planned capacity with four litters (our max is three), and today we had to say no to another because we physically don’t have the space. That never gets easier.

And the hardest part? This was preventable.

If you’re set on buying from a breeder, do your homework. Ask the hard questions. Make sure they take lifetime responsibility for the dogs they bring into the world. Spay and neuter your animals. If you choose not to, please keep them safely contained.

We do not need more unwanted puppies.

Mazzie is a sweet, clearly well-loved dog who is now navigating shelter life and motherhood all at once. We’ll be with her every step of the way — helping her pups grow strong, hitting milestones, and preparing them for the best futures we can give.

Stay tuned to follow their journey. ❤️

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The week leading up to saying goodbye to a litter + their mama is always a little bittersweet. We’ve watched their personalities unfold, poured our time and energy into introducing them to the world, and done everything we can to set them (& their future adopters) up for success.

It hits even harder with dogs like Victoria.

She came to us completely shut down — terrified, clinging & protecting her newborn puppies, scared of the world, unclear if she would ever trust again. Honestly, we didn’t know what her behavioral outcome would be. For the first three weeks, she kept her distance, too scared to let her guard down. But when she finally cracked open — when she realized she was safe and that we could be trusted — she blossomed into this incredible dog. What came out was nothing short of magic.

We’ll never know exactly what her life looked like before this, but we do know her future holds hope, joy, and the chance to be someone’s whole world. @sheltervisibilityproject captured her and what she has to offer one lucky adopter flawlessly.

We try not to dwell on how she ended up like this. Instead, we choose to focus on what comes next. Her story isn’t about where she started… it’s about where she’s going. And she’s ready. She just needs someone with a little extra patience, a little extra love, and the space to let her keep blossoming.

Victoria will be available for adoption through @rilos_rescue on 5/30. If she speaks to you, reach out. She’s ready to give her heart to someone who’s willing to invest in it—and trust us, the return will be immeasurable. And if you’re in the market for a puppy, hers are incredible too.

Thanks, as always, for supporting us so we can do this work. 🥹❤️🫶

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Today we welcomed 12 puppies and one incredibly malnourished mama dog, thanks to our new friends doing important work at @thespayceproject. They came all the way from the California desert, where their lives were at risk. It took countless organizations coming together to rescue over 60 dogs, pretty much overnight.

Betsy and the Charlotte’s Web litter are settling in, getting plenty of food and love. We’ll continue getting to know them over the next five weeks. For now, they’re decompressing after a chaotic 48 hours. This litter will cost us $3,000 just to cover basic, routine care. If just 10% of our Instagram followers Venmoed @askasanimals $10, it would be fully covered. Many hands make light work and Betsy and her puppies are a true testament to that. Let’s keep fighting this fight together.

There are too many people to shout out for making this all happen, but you know who you are. ❤️

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Phone Number: (208) 270-2136

Email: info@askasanimals.org

Address: 1984 W 7000 S, Victor, ID 83455
PO Box 1150, Victor, ID 83455

EIN: 85-4363017

Aska’s Animals Foundation

Providing a progressive environment for animals through rehabilitation, adoption, education, and community outreach and filling the critical gap between shelter and permanent rescue.

Website Photos by Ben Dann | B Dann Creative, Grace Peck | Little Scout Creative, and Lara Agnew | Lara Agnew Photography.

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