Animal Advocacy
Katherine is a passionate animal advocate and an ambassador for Best Friends Animal Society and the ASPCA. Katherine used her own story of saving a dog’s life and giving him a home as inspiration for her children’s book, “Maverick and Me,” to teach children the value of adopting pets. Now Katherine and her dog Maverick work to spread their message of hope, defying the odds, and the joys of finding forever friends through pet rescue. Along with writing her children’s book about adopting Maverick, Katherine works on finding other ways to celebrate the joy of pet adoption and spreading the love of animal rescue!
About Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a leading national animal welfare organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters. In addition to running lifesaving programs in partnership with more than 2,600 animal welfare groups across the country, Best Friends has regional centers in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Salt Lake City, and operates the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals. Founded in 1984, Best Friends is a pioneer in the no-kill movement and has helped reduce the number of animals killed in shelters nationwide from an estimated 17 million per year to about 800,000. That means there are still nearly 2,200 dogs and cats killed every day in shelters, just because they don’t have safe places to call home. We are determined to bring the country to no-kill by the year 2025. Working collaboratively with shelters, rescue groups, other organizations and you, we will end the killing and Save Them All. For more information, visit http://www.bestfriends.org.
About the ASPCA
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to animals. Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, the organization's mission is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States." For more information, visithttps://www.aspca.org/