
Stray from the Heart in the News
- Winner of 2023 Best Animal Rescue in Manhattan
- Winner of 2022 Best Animal Rescue in Manhattan
- Winner of 2020 Best Animal Rescue in Manhattan
- November 2020 Charity Spotlight | Stray From The Heart
- Pitbull from Hurricane Zone Finds Home In Capital Region
- DiamondPup lists Stray From The Heart as #7 of 25 U.S. Pet Rescue Organizations That Are Doing An Amazingly Noble Job
- Maria’s Mutts & Stuff iHeartRadio Interview with Toni Bodon, co-founder of Stray From The Heart. Toni and Maria discuss Understanding International Dog Rescue, how the organization focuses on rescuing dogs from Puerto Rico, Ecuador and Mexico (before the hurricanes). We also talk about Best Friend’s “Strut Your Mutt” event in cities across the country this October. (9/27/17)
- UK-based publication The Dog Express highlights Stray from the Heart as featured charity (6/18/14)
- During its 15th anniversary, Broadway Barks, a star-studded dog and cat adoption event benefiting New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies, honored Stray from the Heart as a founding affiliate (8/19/13)
- CBS New York reports heartwarming story about Benji, a dog rescued from Ecuador (4/9/13)

- DogHeirs writes a story about Lucy, an abused American Staffordshire Terrier rescued from Colombia who is now living with her forever family in upstate New York (10/11/12)
- Artist-entrepreneur and native New Yorker Suzana Stankovic presented “Self-Producing: Owning Your Own Voice and Manifesting Your Vision” to benefit Stray from the Heart (4/24/12)
- Broadway legend and animal advocate Bernadette Peters and other celebrities attend Stray from the Heart’s 10th anniversary celebration, as told by the Examiner (10/19/10)
- Read about Stray from the Heart’s role in the fight to ensure animal shelters are available in all five boroughs of New York City, covered by both the New York Daily News (1/27/09) and The Queens Chronicle (9/22/11)
- Journalist Amy Sacks writes in the New York Daily News about Gabe, a black pitbull rescued from the city shelter’s euthanasia list, and Stray from the Heart’s fight for more shelter space in New York City (10/16/10)
- Read the inspiring New York Daily News article on Betsy Goldman, a Tribeca-based volunteer foster parent, who has provided shelter and a loving, temporary home to 28 needy dogs (7/26/08)
- Read the San Jose Mercury News article about Colin Cole’s heart-wrenching visit to Ecuador, which inspired him to volunteer at Amigo Fiel, a former partner organization of Stray From The Heart (1/08/08)