Candles can change the world, by saving one dog’s life at a time!
Riley’s Candles is on a mission to save as many dogs, who need emergency surgeries, to save their lives as possible.
Riley is our founder, Chief Beagle Officer, best friend and currently a 14-year-old rescue beagle.
When Riley was 3, he was paralyzed for the first time, his parents were newly married and could not afford the roughly $10,000 in surgery and recovery it would take to save his life. However, the only other option was to put him down. In desperation, the charges were spread over every credit card his parents had available.
Riley Survived!
This, unfortunately would not be Riley’s last time being paralyzed, he has been paralyzed a total of 4 times and needed 3 emergency back surgeries to save his life.
He is now a healthy 13-year-old, that loves smelling candles, and is on a mission to use that love to save as many of his four-legged friends as he can!
Over his decade-long relationship with animal neurologists, veterinarians, and their amazing teams, Riley has met too many animals who have had to be put to rest because of money. Their parents desperately wanted to save them but could not afford the surgery.
Riley decided he had to do whatever he could to change this, so in 2017 he founded Riley’s Candles! This was a passion project until 2022, when an LLC was formed, a retail store was opened, and an e-commerce store was created.
Per Riley’s instructions a portion of all proceeds raised by the sale of his candles, but this is a for-profit business to bring jobs to the community Riley loves and develop a sustainable social impact model for other mission-driven businesses to follow.
Riley loves all his Candle family and friends and with all of your help, he believes:
Candles can change the world, by saving one dog’s life at a time!