Ashley Ortiz is a freelance contributor for The Dodo, known for her heartwarming and uplifting stories about animals. With a passion for animal welfare and rescue, Ashley's articles capture the joy and resilience of animals in need, highlighting their journeys and the compassion of those who help them. Her work has also been featured in POPSUGAR.
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Ashley Ortiz's focus is primarily on heartwarming pet and animal rescue stories, often featuring expert commentary. If you're looking to pitch to Ashley, consider offering insights or personal experiences related to heartwarming animal rescue efforts, especially those with a strong human-animal bond or touching family-oriented narratives.
As the coverage does not specify a geographic focus, it's important to note that pitches should appeal to an international audience rather than being location-specific. Since she frequently includes expert commentary in her articles, providing unique perspectives from professionals involved in animal welfare could be particularly effective.
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By: Ashley Ortiz
The folks at Saving Hope Rescue (SHR) are dedicated to rescuing animals in and around Fort Worth, Texas — combing the city for injured and homeless pets daily. They don’t always venture out of Fort Worth for rescue missions, but after seeing a picture recently of a dog living in a box eight hours away, they knew they had to help her.
By: Ashley Ortiz
Meet Mishi: a train-obsessed cat who leaves his house daily to clock into work at the metro station next door.
By: Ashley Ortiz
When a dog mom in Kingston, Jamaica, named Demi heard that her pup, Han Solo, had wandered off from home the other day, she wasn’t entirely surprised. Han Solo is notorious for slipping out without being seen and exploring his neighborhood, no matter how hard his family tries to keep him in.
He had nowhere to go.
By: Ashley Ortiz
As the founder and CEO of Friends of Bear Cat Rescue (FOB), cat lover Haley is used to keeping her eyes peeled for needy felines in Northern California. She often saves sick and homeless cats around her Bay Area neighborhood, but one recent case happened surprisingly close to home.
It was a frigid January day in St. Louis, Missouri, when staff members from Stray Rescue of St. Louis (SRSL) spotted a stray white dog running along a stretch of active train tracks. The poor pup was clearly in danger — the temperature continued to drop, and the next train was due any minute — but those weren’t the rescuers’ only concerns.
It was a warm spring day when a Good Samaritan in South East England stumbled across a tiny, fluffy animal in a dangerous predicament. The baby was running around frantically with her head stuck inside an empty food container — and she was losing oxygen by the minute.
In March of 2023, the folks at Adams County Pet Rescue (ACPR) took in a red husky found wandering around Othello, Washington. They could tell she’d had a home at one point and hoped her family would claim her in the following days, but, sadly, no one showed up.
By: Ashley Ortiz
The minute Suzette Hall, founder of Logan’s Legacy 29, answered her phone last month, she knew something was seriously wrong. The caller, a man working in an industrial area outside of Los Angeles, was breathless as he described finding a lone laundry basket on his worksite filled with fluffy babies — and their mom was tethered next to them.
By: Ashley Ortiz
When Jeanean Gillespie clocked into work at a construction site earlier this month, she expected to see the usual handful of people around. Her office, located on an uninhabited stretch of desert, managed the new housing developments being built — and no one, other than her team of workers, was authorized to be there.
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