Why #406dogsinorange?

Update as of November 1st:

This giveaway is intended to raise awareness and ensure that every dog in Montana is wearing orange during hunting season. Whether you’re in the mountains, fishing the river, or doing some early-season backcountry skiing, hunters ARE around! Together we can prevent accidents and unnecessary loss of life.

Montana is Calling is a small home-based business. We are hunters, anglers, hikers, backcountry hikers; we own two labs that can be mistaken, at a distance, as bears or other game animals.

For years, we’ve been shocked to run into dogs while we’re hunting. We see dogs, with their humans, unaware of hunting season (and that EVERYONE should be covered in orange!)

We share our land here. We also share responsibility to keep everyone safe.

We’re not trying to make money, we’re trying to help raise awareness and keep folks and their dogs safe. We were lucky enough to have been raised in a hunting family, where you don’t leave the house during hunting season (backcountry) without orange. We know not everyone had this same principle engrained in them growing up– so let’s raise awareness together.

If we make back some labor $, awesome! If not, awesome too! If we make more money than cost of supplies and labor- sure as heck it’s going to start this program outside of the Bozeman vicinity! We’re NOT MAKING A PROFIT on this. There’s no personal gain, we just want to give back to the community and make sure everyone is safe in the backcountry during hunting season.