Miranda Lambert Cherishes Anonymity of Working With Pets
In the midst of all the interviews, rehearsals and hectic activities of CMA Awards Week, Miranda Lambert found a furry oasis on Monday afternoon at Nashville’s Music City Center. Lambert spent time playing with puppies and spreading the word about adopting shelter dogs at the Pedigree adoption suite.
“They are the cutest things,” Lambert remarked to Rolling Stone Country as she cuddled a little brown terrier named Waylon. “I’ve already been instructed, ‘No,’ by my husband. He’s like, ‘Oh god, you’re going to see adoptable dogs. Do not look too closely!'”
Well known for her love of all animals, Lambert already owns seven dogs. “I have seven rescues. I brought three of them with me on this trip,” she smiles. “And I did a rescue not that long ago in Oklahoma and there were two Chihuahuas from a puppy mill. I sent Ashley Monroe a picture, so she adopted one of them, and then felt bad and didn’t want to separate them, so she adopted both of them. I brought them on the bus with me too. So I brought five dogs on the bus to the CMAs. It was a little crazy.”
In addition to playing with the pups in the Pedigree suite, Lambert met with VIPs to talk about the “See what good food can do” campaign. “I started a foundation in 2009 called MuttNation Foundation and then I met Pedigree a couple of years ago and I realized our goals were the same, which is to raise awareness for shelter pets and to improve shelters,” Lambert says of her partnership with the pet food company. “Pedigree donated 500,000 pounds of food this year and that fed 13,000 dogs and renovated 48 shelters. The goals that we have as MuttNation Foundation, myself and Pedigree, it’s all the same, so I felt like what better partnership.”
Pedigree played a huge part in helping rebuild the shelter in Lambert’s adopted hometown of Tishomingo, Oklahoma, where she lives with husband Blake Shelton. And there’s a documentary about the project that shows what a labor of love it was for Lambert. “I get really emotional,” she admits. “I’ve been really trying to work with them for six years now. It was a city shelter. We took it over and Pedigree came and renovated it and did some amazing things… It’s called Redemption Ranch. It opens on November 22nd in Tishomingo. I am there quite often and I just really love the way that it’s turning out because there are so many great animals there. I can’t wait till people come get them through the adoptions.”