{"id":88488,"date":"2020-05-15T00:40:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T06:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/navajo-nation-member-nominated-for-pet-rescue-work-on-reservations\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T06:40:33","slug":"navajo-nation-member-nominated-for-pet-rescue-work-on-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/navajo-nation-member-nominated-for-pet-rescue-work-on-reservations\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Nation member nominated for pet rescue work on reservations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=17ab0210-6af6-4cd1-91fa-049145ed9028&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1009\" alt=\"Darell McCurtain has been nominated for Petco\u2019s Unsung Hero Award for assisting and caring for pets on the Navajo Nation.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Darell McCurtain has been nominated for Petco\u2019s Unsung Hero Award for assisting and caring for pets on the Navajo Nation.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of The Petco Foundation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 A Navajo Nation member is a finalist for the Petco Foundation\u2019s national Unsung Hero Award for his work caring for and improving the health condition of pets on reservations in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Darell McCurtain, intake director at <a href=\"https:\/\/nuzzlesandco.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nuzzles &amp; Co. Pet Rescue and Adoption<\/a> in Utah, began the pet program to provide additional support and rescue of pets in 2014. Since then, he has worked on the Navajo Nation, Ute Ouray Nation, Ute Mountain Nation and the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnvBA_6QrGg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=aa4f0812-1236-426b-b2d9-e3da7c57aa33&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"McCurtain\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">McCurtain<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>As one of the five finalists with the pet supply company\u2019s award, he received a $10,000 grant for Nuzzles &amp; Co. and is competing for an additional $50,000 finalist grant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petcofoundation.org\/unsung-heroes\/unsung-heroes-wildcard-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voting for the Unsung Hero Award<\/a> is open to the public and closes at 11 a.m. Friday. McCurtain was in second place as of Thursday, according to Nuzzles &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big undertaking, but we are reducing the number of unwanted animals that end up in shelters that would probably be euthanized,\u201d McCurtain said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of work but worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Petco Foundation\u2019s description, the Unsung Hero honorees go above and beyond saving animals and can prove one person can make a better world for pets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Darrell set this program up in 2014, we have the opportunity to help pets on the reservations,\u201d said Jamie Usry, executive director of Nuzzles &amp; Co. \u201cDarrell is inspiring and that\u2019s contagious. We are forever indebted to him for having the foresight to create this program. He has literally saved thousands of pet lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:lweber@durangoherald.com\">lweber@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dca62184-0a8d-4e4a-a0cc-d9f91ae8d646&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Darell McCurtain is nominated for Petco\u2019s Unsung Hero Award for assisting and caring for pets on the Navajo Nation. Voting will end at 11 a.m. Friday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Darell McCurtain is nominated for Petco\u2019s Unsung Hero Award for assisting and caring for pets on the Navajo Nation. Voting will end at 11 a.m. Friday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Nuzzles &amp; Co.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at 11 a.m. Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382,28,1655,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-88488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal","tag-headlines","tag-navajo-nation","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88488","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=88488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88488"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=88488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}