Confinement Training

After watching this video, if you have questions or would like further assistance please get in touch with us at behavior@askasanimals.org.

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We are filled with joy and gratitude from all your support over the past few weeks for my birthday.

Your words of encouragement, your financial contributions, and your "happy birthday!" Wishes when I've seen you out in the community continue to fuel this passion for the animals and people in our community.

The team is hard at work today caring for dogs, providing a staff workshop, and creating more behavior resources for people and their dogs. We couldn't do this without you.

From the bottom of our hearts, Thank you.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

📸 @zach.montes

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It all started in this bathtub.

For anyone who has been following along for 10+ years, my fostering journey used to take place in this small bathroom/bathtub.

Fast forward ~8 years when things started to change and the need for neonatal care and canine behavior support started to grow beyond what I could personally do in the tub, alone. And, we could only have so many pigs living in our house at Thanskgiving (see pics 3 and 5....)

4 years ago, along with passionate friends and community members, Aska's Animals was born as a non-profit so we could have more infrastructure, staff and a bigger positive impact in our community for the people and the animals.

Today is my birthday and Giving Tuesday. All I want is donations to this wonderful organization that has blossomed beyond me, and I am still passionate about volunteering for. We have a $5k match from @debbiegretz and our goal was to raise a total of $10k. Well, you have all blown us away and we are almost at $15,000. If you haven't donated yet, would you consider helping us reach our new goal of $20,000? With these increase in funds we can increase our medical budget to spay and neuter puppies before they leave to our partners, which decreases their time in the shelters.

A lot has changed since the days of me being alone in a tub bottle- feeding cats, and taking in weird dogs that people didn't want. But, my love for the work I get to share with our community has only grown.

Thank you all for the incredible support over all these years. ❤️❤️❤️

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We are prepping Thanksgiving Breakfast for our 14 closest pig friends! Join us tomorrow (Thanksgiving) morning at 9 am to feed the resident pigs their holiday feast. Thankfully, the pigs don't mind when Aska goes rogue and doesn't follow food safety guidelines when she is prepping the carrots 😉. This is a great time to kick the kids and your in-laws out of the house so you can have 20 minutes of peace in the house. Or, leave the kids and the in-laws at home and treat yourself to a peaceful morning with pigs and puppies.

See you at the farm at 9 am!

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It's Aska's birthday month and we have a generous matching opportunity from Debbie Gretz for $5,000. Help us reach our goal to care for all the animals in our care and to celebrate Aska!

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Do you want to be as happy as Ali on Thanksgiving morning?

Join us this Thursday (Thanksgiving) from 9 to 10 am to feed the pigs a Thanksgiving feast. Bring your family, bring the in laws and if you want bring along some veggie scraps to share.

🐖🎃 ❤️

📸 @zach.montes

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Aska's birthday is November 28th and the only thing she's asking for this year is participation in this fantastic fundraising opportunity. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Debbie Gretz of Grey Face Acres has generously offered to match up to $5,000 in donations to Aska's Animals. GFA is an all volunteer, foster-based rescue for senior dogs in Idaho. Due to personal reasons Debbie is closing GFA and she wants us to use this portion of her remaining funds to continue to positively impact animals' lives in our area.

Our goal is to turn this $5,000 into $10,000 by November 29th.

Enjoy some throw back pictures of Aska with various bunches of creatures over the years 😊

Link in bio to donate or visit
https://askasanimals.nationbuilder.com/select_donation

❤️❤️❤️

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These kids are growing fast and loving this warm extended fall we are having!

As we enter a season of gratitude, we will start by being grateful for this incredible weather that makes working outside with dogs and pigs 10000000% more enjoyable.

These puppies head to their new homes next week through Western Border Collie Rescue.

📷@zach.montes

#puppiesofinstagram #puppypalace #puppyculture #dogbehavior #animalrescue

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The Charlotte’s Web litter is starting to explore kibble, and they are becoming more and more body aware every day.

You may notice our puppy content is a little limited right now. Due to potential disease exposure, we have put all the palaces under a 2 week quarantine and are limiting the animals to staff members only. So far, everyone is happy, healthy, and thriving, but we are limiting phone use in the palaces, so there is no cross contamination.

Thanks to everyone who has purchased items off our wishlists, the dogs have lots of fun enrichment to keep them engaged while they are somewhat sequestered for 2 weeks.

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Papa would like to remind everyone that we collect pumpkins for the pigs 🐷❤️ 🎃.

Before Halloween, after Halloween, whenever! Our only request is you remove all wax, candle parts or other non-edible items or accessories from your pumpkins.

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Rest well, Maisie girl.

This past weekend, Maisie became suddenly paralyzed in her hind end, and yesterday, we helped her move onto her next chapter.

Maisie was only with us for 1 year, but she quickly became a favorite with her gentle spirit. I (aska) also feel like she was connected to our pigs because she and Milli (still here with us and also came last year) were the sisters of Doogie whom I personally adopted from @bestfriendsanimalsociety in 2014. They came from a litter of 10+ piglets from Colorado city that @bestfriendsanimalsociety took in. Picture 6 is Doogie and Maisie as young babes circa 2014.

To our surprise, Milli and Papa, who came with Maisie last year, are doing OK today despite her absence and their deep bonds. The resilience of these creatures always amazes us.

Thank you to everyone in the pig area at @bestfriendsanimalsociety and especially @lookwhosoinking who entrusted us to care for these guys and who has known all of these kids since the very beginning. This loss is shared by all of us who were privileged to care for this wonderful soul, Masie. Rosalie, thank you for digging up old photos of these kids and for all you do for the pigs in yourMaisie. We appreciate you so much. ❤️

Rest well, sweet girl.

With love,
All of your caregivers at AAF.

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.

Phone Number: (646) 258-2512

Email: info@askasanimals.org

Instagram: @askasanimals

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