Educate | Advocate | Adopt

Thanks for stopping by! The Rescue Dog Project has been a solo project since 2022-2023, earlier If you count all the note-taking! The project was launched as an art & advocacy campaign in 2024, creating whimsical graphics that carried a serious message to make people feel a bit uncomfortable so they'd reflect on an issue that is really serious. Now we welcome contributors! Art creates awareness. Awareness creates action. Action creates change. Let's grow this message! Your v

In 2024, I started the Rescue Dog Project art and advocacy campaign as a way to get the message out that rescues and rescuers are strained. We hear about rescuing the dogs, but rescuers are drowning in overcrowded facilities with little to no support. And the problems run even deeper. My publishing background motivates me to create a hub for information – not just about adoption, but about every facet of rescue. The parts that are celebrated, and the parts that are often over

By Jenifer Lee, Founder of The Rescue Dog Project It’s been over a year since the launch of The Rescue Dog Project. I did what I set out to do – create art that speaks for the strain on rescues and rescuers alike. Surprising, many people seemed unsure what I was doing – and visual communications is what this is all about! Only a little mortified, it's an awareness campaign, comparing it to the No Smoking campaign; subconsciously it is supposed to work. Right?! Maybe the quest

The beginning On the first day of volunteering at a local rescue, I learned dogs in shelters do not get out of their cages much. The areas are semi-spacious, like a prison cel, enough room for you and your mate – but you better get along. The floors can be cold, hard. Some dogs get beds, some don't. Some of the dogs become anxious because of the loud barking all day. With no structure or space to release energy, they CHEW the beds. These fun-loving characters, anxious for a w