Doge Pound

The Shelter

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Uchira, Tanzania · Since 2021

We helped
build it.

A dog shelter in Uchira, Tanzania. The gates opened on 30 June 2022, and we’re still finding ways to help.

Built with Kilimanjaro Animal Rescue and Share Tanzania.

30 Jun 2022
Scissors at the ribbon across the red steel gate, beside the Doge Pound Shelter sign, on June 30, 2022.
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Watch the opening

Some of the dogs.

The faces behind the story. These portraits were taken in January 2023. For the dogs in care today and the latest news, visit the rescue team .

Photographed January 2023, Kilimanjaro Animal Rescue

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How it was built.

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THE ORIGINAL SITE PLAN · NOV 2021
The original shelter plan, drawn in white over a drone photo of the bare plot, November 2021: quarantine kennels, four kennel blocks, a kitchen, a surgery and office, a swimming pool, sewerage chambers, an inner gate and the main gate.
Tap a pin to see that spot.Uchira, Kilimanjaro Region
OPENED · JUNE 30, 2022

Main Gate

The ribbon was cut at the red steel gate, under the black Doge Pound Shelter sign. Then the dogs walked in.

The first drawings.

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THE ORIGINALS / 2021–22Plans from before the build.

The build, in photos.

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FEBRUARY 2022

Taking shape

Kennel frames and chain-link fences went up.

A plan.A build.An open gate.

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Short clips.

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REAL CLIPS, POSTS & PHOTOGRAPHSClips open with sound · “Room to run” is silent

The films.

The story so far, in four films.

In AR

The Doges
came to visit.

Cartoon Doges, walking around
the real place.

They play as you pass.
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FILMED AT
THE SHELTER

At the gate.

12 Dec 2022

Looking around.

12 Dec 2022

Among friends.

20 Feb 2023

The Doge Pound Shelter badge, Tanzania 2022

Still helping.

We keep finding ways to support the rescue and its dogs. To see the dogs in care now, or to help yourself, visit Kilimanjaro Animal Rescue.

Meet the rescue

There’s more.

The pack’s films, from 2021 on, are in the cinema.

Step into the cinema
An original Doge Pound characterBrown, photographed at Kilimanjaro Animal Rescue in January 2023

What is Doge Pound?

It started in 2021 with 10,000 cartoon Doges on Ethereum. The people who collected them became a pack, and the pack kept going: Puppies, games, films, and a dog shelter they helped build in Tanzania and still help.

You don’t need a wallet to look around.