
Welcome to the new BAMutah.com!
It is my pleasure to announce that BAM has a great new look online and lots of new information to share!
Since our founding in early 2006, Because Animals Matter has been steadily growing and improving – both in our impact on pets in need and how we accomplish that work. The last couple years have led to our most tremendous changes yet: purchasing a building in Hurricane that has become a very successful thrift store, That BAM Place, and it is soon to share joint space with

Farewell Tater
Irene Schilling told me one day she was going to foster a dog for BAM, so on September 15, 2014 she and I went to the St. George Shelter. We picked out Tater Tot who was believed to be about 8 years old and whose owner had died. As you can see he seemed like a happy, healthy little guy. As it turns out, Tater was about 12-14 years old and wasn't in good health at all. Irene only had him a week or two when she wrote to say she thought there was something seriously wrong with h