Miranda Lam­bert is pos­ing for a good cause, and hopes shop­pers at her new Okla­homa store, Pink Pis­tol, will donate to her Mut­tna­tion Foun­da­tion. The singer tells Coun­try Weekly, that she is “con­stantly mov­ing mer­chan­dise and work­ing the soda foun­da­tion,” at her and typ­i­cally gets asked for a pic­ture. “It’d go crazy” if she did that for every­body, so instead she asks for a $100 dona­tion to raise money for her orga­ni­za­tion. The Mut­tna­tion Foun­da­tion helps ani­mal shel­ters nation­wide in hopes that no-kill shel­ters will dis­ap­pear. So far Miranda has raised $2,500 just by say­ing, “Cheese.” She just doesn’t “want the per­cep­tion of peo­ple think­ing [she’s] charg­ing money for pho­tos.” It’s all for the animals!

Also, Miranda new sin­gle “Mama’s Bro­ken Heart” almost wasn’t her sin­gle at all. ACM New Female Vocal­ist nom­i­nee Kacey Mus­graves co-penned the song and nearly snatched it for her debut album. “I had to beg for that song because Kacey got signed to a record deal,” Miranda says, “and it was going to be one of her first songs.” In the end, Kacey, who’s also writ­ten for Mar­tina McBride, released “Merry Go ‘Round” as her first sin­gle and gave “Mama’s Bro­ken Heart” to Miranda. Kacey’s debut album drops in March.