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Boonie Tails

By Grace Keilbach

Saving The Boonies One Post at a Time

Running our social media platforms is an extremely time-consuming and poorly paid job—on top of our other unpaid job: running the rescue. Each ten-second video clip typically takes an hour to put together, and you don’t even want to know how long we spend on the longer ones with voiceovers. An entire afternoon can easily disappear as we brainstorm ideas, film with uncooperative co-stars, and finally edit everything—only for the video to get 500 views. (That’s pretty disappointing when you have nearly 600,000 followers.) Prioritizing our dogs’ Instagram can often feel pointless, but those cute puppy photos are what helped Boonie Babies become what it is today.

Being an “influencer”—especially one whose content revolves around four-legged creatures who don’t understand the importance of holding still for the camera—is not for the weak or impatient. And don’t even get us started on the added challenges of being rescue content creators (the internet has a complicated love/hate relationship with dying dogs). The struggles are real, but so are the results—even if it doesn’t always feel like it.

Through social media, we’ve been able to share our story with millions of people around the world. This has allowed us to fund our work, spread awareness, get dogs adopted, and save more lives than we can count.

As we begin to share more about our personal lives and rescue efforts online, we do so in the hope of inspiring change and creating real-world impact. So the next time you see a Boonie Babies post on any platform, please join our grandma and mom in leaving a comment and sharing it. Your interactions are more powerful than you might think—they truly help save the Boonies.

Speaking of making an impact…

As you read this, Aria is arriving in the Philippines for the international Miss Earth competition—a project she took on entirely in the name of saving the Boonies! With a freshly painted set of nails and a dog-bitten finger (she was recently bitten while rescuing a dog who had been hit by a car), she's ready to take the stage. We’re so excited to share this new, much more sparkly adventure with all of you—and more importantly, to introduce Boonie Babies to the beauty pageant world.

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Boonie of the Week

May 2023 Super Typhoon Mawar hit Guam. In preparation for the storm I brought as many dogs from the pack inside as I could. After the storm, all the members of the pack were happy to get back to their lives but Angel refused to leave. When I was home she would be attached to my hip. If I wasn’t home she preferred to be outside and took guarding the house very seriously. She always had the best “smile” but slowly her full personality started to show. She grew to be the snuggliest and weirdest dog I’ve ever met.

This last August we moved to Georgia. We are lucky to be Military on PCS orders so we were able to fly the dogs on United. Stateside, Angel spends her days lounging poolside with her sisters and going on long walks trying to sniff out all the new animals down south.

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