{"id":70575,"date":"2017-04-07T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-girl-keeps-birthday-promise-to-cortez-animal-shelter\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T18:25:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:25:06","slug":"dolores-girl-keeps-birthday-promise-to-cortez-animal-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-girl-keeps-birthday-promise-to-cortez-animal-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores girl keeps birthday promise to Cortez Animal Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=56d3a915-6550-4ac2-b4a3-a950dfcd5128&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1494\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"Jordan Lansing holds Chubby, one of the Cortez Animal Shelter dogs that will benefit from her donations of pet supplies.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Jordan Lansing holds Chubby, one of the Cortez Animal Shelter dogs that will benefit from her donations of pet supplies.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cSome of the shelters need help because some of the animals are suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Lansing, 11<\/p>\n<p>By Stephanie Alderton<\/p>\n<p>Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Lansing, 11, continued a birthday tradition on Tuesday when she went to the Cortez Animal Shelter to donate a carload of pet supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolores middle-schooler has been asking her friends for shelter donations instead of presents for every birthday since she turned 7. She plans to keep up the tradition until she realizes her dream of becoming a veterinarian.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother, Amber Lansing, said this year\u2019s pile of donations was the biggest yet.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan delivered the supplies with her mom and her brother David, three days after her birthday party on Saturday. Their gifts included dog and cat food, toys, treats, cleaning supplies and more. Even though Jordan said only eight of her friends were able to come to her party this year, they all brought enough to make a sizable pile in the shelter\u2019s hallway.<\/p>\n<p>Helping the shelter seems especially important this year, Lansing said, since it has been struggling to secure funding from the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the shelters need help because some of the animals are suffering,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n<p>Helping animals isn\u2019t just an annual activity for her, but a lifetime calling. When she grows up, she hopes to become a veterinarian, convert an RV into a medical van and travel around the country giving basic health services to pets that need them.<\/p>\n<p>Right now her family owns two cats and a dog, all rescues from various shelters. Going to the shelter can be dangerous, according to Jordan. The family\u2019s last trip to the one in Durango ended in a long-term commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom said, \u2018we\u2019re just going to look at the animals,\u2019 and we come home with a dog,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Shelter supervisor Jennifer Crouse said she and the other employees always look forward to the Lansings\u2019 visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come every year, and it\u2019s always fun,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lansing, who hopes to become a vet, donates each year to animal shelter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382,747,21,44,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal","tag-children","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70575","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=70575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70575"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}