As winter in Columbia ramps up, Unchained Melodies will offer overnight housing for dogs whose owners are staying in local homeless shelters.

Currently, no overnight shelters allow dogs in Columbia. Unchained Melodies has partnered with COMO Mobile Aid Collective to shelters dogs with local vets and boarders, giving pets a warm place to sleep while their owners seek shelter out of the cold.

"A lot of people will suffer hypothermia because they don't want to leave their pet," Melody Whitworth, director of Unchained Melodies, said. "So this gives the pet a safe place to be out of the cold as well as allow their human owner to get into a shelter and stay safe."