EVERY CLOSING YOU HAVE WITH ME- A SHELTER RESCUE DOG or CAT is sponsored- you can save the life of a dog or cat, help with medical bills and support local animal rescue organizations who strive to save as many shelter pets as possible. Please consider helping your local rescue groups and shelters by volunteering to foster, adopt, donate or transport from kill shelters to rescue. Please see the links below.
Please note not all dogs or cats are posted on the animal shelter/animal control web sites. Please visit animal control and shelters to see all adoptable animals. LIST OF ANIMAL RESCUE CONTACTS, SHELTERS AND ADOPTABLE PETS:
Every real estate closing I donate to a shelter pet at a kill shelter, helping animal rescue organizations and personally transporting dogs, cats, puppies and kittens out of kill shelters to rescues, fosters and permanent homes.
My Rescue Background: I have transported over 1500 dogs, puppies, cats and kittens out of kill shelters to Tampa Bay area rescue groups and foster homes over the last several years. I have also fostered rescue dogs until permanent homes were found including a disabled bulldog Droopy and a severely abused bulldog Charlotte. My eventual goal is to sponsor and build a local Tampa area Florida rescue facility where with my rescue contacts we can save hundreds of dogs and cats from kill shelters and abuse, provide temporary or permanent homes for them and run an adoption program. My mission is to give these animals a second chance full of warmth, safety and love. Those that have been dumped, neglected and abused must be able to know that there is someone there to love, protect and take care of them- dogs no matter what they have been through are utterly devoted to us and deserve to experience love.
My start in animal rescue began over 12 years ago with the adoption of my first shelter dog a German Shepherd mix REMY from a Ft. Myers kill shelter. He was the most amazing rescue dog and a wonderful part of my life. Unfortunately I lost him in 2008 at the age of 10 1/2. I am carrying on the work of dog and cat rescue through donations, participating in rescue calendars and personally pulling and transporting dogs and cats out of kill shelters to animal rescue groups.
I am very dedicated to real estate and devote many hours to my business. I feel it is important to also donate the resources I have to give back to my community. For the last 5 years I have become involved in animal rescue. A portion of my time is dedicated to helping save animal's lives by offering transport out of Florida kill shelters to rescue groups or finding permanent homes for shelter pets. I volunteer with local animal rescue organizations offering my time and transport assistance to pull dogs and cats out of kill shelters and drive them back to local Tampa rescues.
Due to overcrowding, more foreclosures, etc. many animals only have about 3 days to be adopted which is highly unlikely when in a kill shelter. Thousands of animals in FL are being put down every month for no reason. Some of these animals may have a foster or home willing to take them but getting them there is an issue so offering transport help has allowed me to save animals who were facing euthanasia.
A few experiences include:
- Flying on a single engine plane to GA to rescue a German Shepherd Mom and her nine day old puppies out of kill shelter to safety in Tampa, FL http://pilotsnpaws.org/
- Transporting 52 animals (45 dogs, 7 cats) that pilots flew in to Ocala and two of us transported to the Tampa Humane Society http://pilotsnpaws.org/2010/01/news-blast/
- Individually transported in one trip 54 animals from a kill shelter to rescues
- Commuting from Tampa to Tavares and back several times a month to pull dogs and cats that were set to be euthanized and delivered to Tampa rescue groups
- Transported over 100 dogs and cats from kill shelters to rescue in one trip
There are many facets of rescue: donations to sponsor an animal or help with vetting, offer to pay an adoption fee for someone who would be a great owner but has limited resources, sponsor a pet in danger of euthanasia which helps get animals rescued, crosspost those on the euthanasia list to your contacts (can't tell you how many times this has saved an animal because I crossposted) and offered transport help.
Charlotte- My previous foster- severely abused American Bulldog
Previous foster Droopy/Ozzie disabled American Bulldog
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