I spent years working in the Middle East, and it changed how I see street dogs. In the UK, a stray gets picked up, scanned, rehomed. Out there, the rescues doing that work run on almost nothing — a handful of volunteers, vet bills they can't cover, and more dogs arriving every day than they can take.
I couldn't unsee it. So I built Doggo Shop with one rule: every penny of profit goes to rescue organisations.
Here's what that means, plainly. When you buy something, part of the price covers what everything genuinely costs — the product itself, shipping, payment fees, keeping the site running. Everything left over is profit, and 100% of it goes to rescues. I don't take a salary. I don't take a dividend. This isn't my living — it's something I run in my own time because the alternative was doing nothing.
We're not a registered charity, and I won't pretend to be one. It's a shop. But it's a shop where the margin that would normally go into someone's pocket goes to feeding, treating and rehoming dogs that nobody else is coming for.
That's it. That's the whole story.
— Mark