Twin Rocks Trading Post & Cafe is generously teaming up with BARC to host a fundraiser brunch Saturday, January 14, 2023 from 8 am to noon at Twin Rocks Cafe in Bluff, UT. Breakfast will be served by volunteers from the Fort. A big thanks to Cisco for donating food!

ONE TRANSPORT
It all began with a phone call from Amber (intake coordinator for Underdog). She told me that Lorinda, who works in Monument Valley, would be bringing me a mom dog with 4 puppies tomorrow and asked if I could transport them to Moab. Later that same day I got a call from Daylene (10 miles south of Bluff) telling me that a mom dog at her house had delivered 11 puppies the night before. She had them inside her house because it was freezing at night. She asked me to come get them since she couldn’t keep them inside her house. I drove there, picked them up, and put them in my garage with a heater.

Later that same day, Amber called back and suggested that I also bring the 8 puppies from Red Mesa who were now 10 weeks old and had been living in Heather’s living room inside a puppy pen since birth. I called Heather to tell her I would be coming tomorrow to pick up her pups. She informed me that another mom dog had delivered 5 new puppies in a dog house in her back yard the night before (nighttime low of 18 degrees).

I called Amber back.

“Better bring them too”, she said.

​So early the next day I drove to Red Mesa to pick up 8 ten week old puppies, the mom with 5 one day old puppies and then back to Bluff to await the arrival of Lorinda with the mom and 4 puppies. I then called Paul to help me load the mom and 11 puppies from my garage. All 31 dogs made it to Moab where beds and pens were waiting for me.

There were 6 other transports in December carrying 12 more puppies, a mauled male from Monument Valley and 5 other strays. Foster care has continued with help from Janna and Steve Simpson, Dudley Beck and Glen Renner, Bessie Pelt, Heather Jemmott, Al Gerecke and Kathy Smith, and Daylene Redhorse. There is no more room in Bluff. We travelled 935 miles to deliver 825 pounds of dog food and 5 cases of canned dog food. 510 pounds of this dog food was donated by Underdog.

If you can help, please donate to BARC at PO Box 462, Bluff, Ut 84512. Thank You, Dudley Beck