March Muttness with Sammie’s Friends - Choose Your Team. Change a Life.

March is for underdogs and big wins — and this spring, Sammie’s Friends is bringing that energy to our shelter. Today, through our hybrid partnership with Nevada County, we focus with precision on socially conscious sheltering: foster-first placement, structured enrichment, adoption support, and prevention education.

The science is clear. Longer shelter stays increase stress and reduce adoptability.

Structured enrichment and shorter stays measurably improve outcomes. These are the variables we can control — and change.

This March, choose your team:

🐱 Team Cat

🐶 Team Dog

Cast your vote with a donation. Every gift expands foster capacity, funds enrichment, and shortens shelter stays.

March celebrates the underdog. At Sammie’s Friends, the underdogs are real.

Choose your team. Help them win.

The future of humane sheltering will be built by those willing to lead it.

*The artwork featured here, created by a talented Nevada Union High School art student, captures animals waiting for their moment. Dogs and cats competing not for a trophy — but for a home.

March Muttness with Sammie's Friends