Steps to Adopt

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Pick Up Your Pet!

16th Annual BBQ and Brew Event is scheduled for
August 2, 2025 at SOZO Sports,  5pm – 9pm
Purchase online tickets!

Thank you to all our supporters for making our BBQ & Brew fundraisers such a success.
We couldn’t do it without you!

Join our Wags to Riches “FURRY FRIENDS FACE-OFF” photo contest.

No entry fee – Submit your pet’s photo for free.
No voting fee – Friends, family, and fans can vote online without paying a dime. They can vote once a day
while voting is open. Voting the evening of the event is free.  One vote per person.

One pet per entry : One category for that pet per entry
Submit Entries starting July 5th thru July 18th 2025
Online Voting starts July 20th thru July 28th 2025
Final Voting will happen at our Wags to Riches Annual BBQ and Brew Animal Rescue Fundraising Dinner August 2,
2025—Cost per Ticket is $40.00 per person in advance and $45.00 per person at the door.
Winners will be announced during the evening.
Dog Categories
____Best Dog Smile ______Funniest Pose ______Best Attire _____Event Favorite _____Most Votes
Cat Categories
____Sassiest Cat Face _____ Funniest Pose _____Best Attire _____ Event Favorite_____ Most Votes

Click HERE to Enter your picture!

Our Community – Programs & Projects

In addition to Rescuing Dogs and Cats, Wags to Riches is busy In Our Community helping animals in loving homes stay with their family and providing means for Spay and Neuter procedures for those that need financial help. In 2024, through our various programs, we funded the spay/neuter of nearly 900 pets, the bulk of which were for low-income families, disabled individuals, and military members in our Valley. We’re on track to exceed that number this year. Not quite half way through 2025 and we have already funded over 500!!

Your generosity covers critical veterinary care, food, shelter, and foster placement until every pet finds a loving home. We thank you.  Below are just a few of the Programs & Projects Wags is a part of in the Yakima Valley…

Spay It Forward (SIF)

Spay or Neuter surgery carries a one-time cost that is relatively small when one considers its benefits. It’s a small price to pay for the health of your pet and the prevention of more unwanted animals.

Wags to Riches “Spay It Forward” program reduces the number of homeless and euthanized animals in our Yakima County by altering companion dogs and cats for low-income, disabled and military families.

The over 800 Spay and Neuter surgeries in 2024 is a good start but we can do more with your help.

Learn more…

Senior Pet Companion Program

The Donna Prime Senior Pet Companion Program is available to seniors, 62 and older, needing a bit of help with Veterinary care, vaccinations & Micro-Chips.

This program provides assistance to keep their best friend and eliminate the choice between caring for their pets or themselves. Many researchers are finding that the most serious disease for older persons is not cancer or heart disease — it’s loneliness.

     Learn more…

Whiskers & Purrs

It is no secret that there is an incredible over-abundance of cats and kitten in the Yakima Valley and they are most likely to be dumped alongside the road, in the river, in abandoned buildings or orchards and left to starve to death.

All cats or kittens that come to Wags go into Foster homes until they are either adopted or transferred to another No-Kill entity in our state.

Fostering, in your home, is an undertaking of tremendous value and equal reward. We supply what you need to care for them, you supply the love.

Learn more about Fostering…

Animal Rescue

These animals are often rescued from abusive or tragic circumstances and become wards of Wags to Riches. Other circumstances include Owner Surrenders and dogs that are “pulled” from the Humane Society for better social placement, if Foster homes are available.

Wags to Riches relies on Foster homes to care for our rescues.  Fostering, in your home, is an undertaking of tremendous value and equal reward. We provide all the necessities for care, you provide the love.  It takes a village and we can’t help the animals without Fosters!

Learn more…

We Will, We Promise Program

Have You Made a Plan?

If the time comes when you can’t take care of your pet anymore we will take your pet(s) and we will keep them safe. We will find your pet(s) a new loving home to live in. In the beginning they will go to a Foster family to help them thru the grieving process.

We will try to gather up the pieces of their heart to put it back together again.

Learn more…

Kids Education Programs

Our primary mission is to encourage, in children, the lifelong appreciation of the value of animals.

Respect, Responsibility and Rescue – Teaching respect for animals and responsible behavior.

Bite-Proofing our Children – Teaching dog body-language and warning signs and what to do.

Kid’s Wall of Kindness – Paw Prints, signed by the kids,  and are placed on the Wall by those kids who promise to always be kind to animals.

Learn more…

Find more about Wags to Riches Events and programs In Our Community.

Donations directly support our rescued animals, providing such things as routine and emergency veterinary care, food and community education materials.
Learn more…