{"id":14100,"date":"2026-01-07T20:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/doris-day-animal-foundation-awards-10000-grant-to-denkai-animal-sanctuary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:43:49","slug":"doris-day-animal-foundation-awards-10000-grant-to-denkai-animal-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/doris-day-animal-foundation-awards-10000-grant-to-denkai-animal-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Doris Day Animal Foundation awards $10,000 grant to Denkai Animal Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a2f5f437-041a-521f-9ff0-e6b39b80c7ed&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1391\" alt=\"Floss Blackburn, left, founder and president of Denkai Animal Sanctuary, engages with Luna, who belongs to Shawn and Jacky Aravena, while Savannah Neely, a vet tech, checks her computer during an office visit. The veterinary clinic provides typical veterinary care, and an animal sanctuary in Hesperus houses farm animals and temporarily takes in dogs awaiting rehoming. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Floss Blackburn, left, founder and president of Denkai Animal Sanctuary, engages with Luna, who belongs to Shawn and Jacky Aravena, while Savannah Neely, a vet tech, checks her computer during an office visit. The veterinary clinic provides typical veterinary care, and an animal sanctuary in Hesperus houses farm animals and temporarily takes in dogs awaiting rehoming. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Denkai Animal Sanctuary received a $10,000 grant from the Doris Day Animal Foundation to help seniors pay for veterinary care and expand subsidized spay and neuter services in the Four Corners region.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will support a sliding-scale subsidy program for income-qualified seniors. It will cover basic wellness exams, treatment for illness or injury, and emergency care. It is meant to help pet owners who are on fixed incomes.<\/p>\n<p>Floss Blackburn, founder and president of Denkai Animal Sanctuary, added that pets are vital to seniors\u2019 well-being.<\/p>\n<p>The grant also will fund spay and neuter surgeries for people who cannot afford them. These procedures help curb pet overpopulation, reduce unwanted litters and ease pressure on local shelters and rescues.<\/p>\n<p>People may seek financial help at (970) 508-9008 or schedule appointments at www.denkaisanctuary.org, noting where help with costs is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackburn, left, founder and president of Denkai Animal Sanctuary, engages with Luna, who belongs to Shawn and Jacky Aravena, while Savannah Neely, a vet tech, checks her computer during an office visit. The veterinary clinic provides typical veterinary care, and an animal sanctuary in Hesperus houses farm animals and temporarily takes in dogs awaiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382,202,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-14100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal","tag-briefs","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19327,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions\/19327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=14100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}