Bush’s Gavin Rossdale Teams Up with Best Friends Animal Society for “12 Days of Dogmas” Campaign

This is exactly what I wanna see right now, a little something good for the world. Gavin Rossdale, the frontman of the British grunge band Bush, has joined forces with the Best Friends Animal Society to launch a special event called the “12 Days of Dogmas,” a dog adoption campaign meant to get doggos who need homes in front of potential parents’ eyes. Having started back on December 10, Rossdale is featuring one adoptable dog a day on his social media accounts, including a photo of the lil ones along with some descriptive info on why the pup may be a perfect fit for you. Dogs from shelters all around the country are being spotlighted, and that’s fuckin awesome.

Rossdale spoke with Matt Bingham of the Z93 radio station, saying:

“I went to Best Friend Society, which is a really incredible no-kill animal shelter, because I did a campaign with PETA, for People for Ethical Treatment Animals, [as part of the] ‘Adopt Don’t Shop’ [campaign],” Gavin explained. “So that was hardcore. That was L.A. County [animal] services. That’s where I got my dog from. It’s dog jail. It’s a kill shelter. It’s just awful. The people that do the work, they’re incredible — angels on earth — but they’re just overrun, and the bureaucracy of it is pretty terrible. So that was hardcore and very upsetting, and I did a whole thing with them, campaign with them, the previous week. But this one was a shelter that was in Brentwood and it felt like it’d been really well funded and they don’t kill, and it just was amazing to go meet all these dogs.”

“There’s always this sort of a backdrop of tragedy. When you sit and you pat a dog, you’re, like, this dog is literally homeless, literally needs you, has been totally let down by every other human it’s met, and it still has the capacity to be nice to you when really it probably deserves to sort of be far more uptight and difficult. So I just went in there, and there’s an amazing woman who photographed us together. So I spent time with the dogs, took them out, played with them a bit, and did a few pictures with them. And the idea is just to promote these dogs, to adopt them. Amazing dogs. I would’ve taken any of them.”

As someone with rescue animals, giving them loving homes is paramount, especially during the holiday season. Many lil dudes and dudettes get picked up as holiday gifts, only to be returned once the responsibility that comes with caring is discovered. That’s why permanent homes are the biggest goal.

So, take give one of these little ones a lasting home. It’ll be good for you both.