Annie’s Orphans is a No-Kill dog shelter located in Durango, Colorado which began in 1985 as a home for retired sled dogs. With dogs for adoption in Durango, CO, Annie’s Orphans is the Southwest’s oldest No-Kill dog shelter in the Four Corners.

Even though it started as a home for retired sled dogs, given Anna and Bill Anderson’s compassion for animals in distress, this limited scope was quickly revised to become a more “all-inclusive” strategy. The shelter grew rapidly into a full-fledged, all breed rescue and was incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1997. Annie’s Orphans now has a maximum capacity of 70 dogs and had become a safe-haven for the abandoned, neglected, and abused pet population from throughout the greater Four Corners area. However, due to a number of older dogs in residence with considerable health care needs and those that are hard to adopt because of the hard lives they have had, the shelter remains at perpetual full-capacity and that is where they need your help!

The goal of Annie’s Orphans is to offer abused and hard to adopt dogs a safe haven until good adoptive homes can be found.

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