My rescue story began early but really started to take form when I began fostering for a rescue as hospice care. My first hospice dog, Maple, came from a hoarding situation in Jerome. She had been starved and was diagnosed with cancer. They gave her a few weeks to live as she was no longer eating. When I picked her up, I sang to her the whole ride home and made a deal with her, “If you keep fighting, I will too.” And fight she did. We discovered she had stopped eating because most of her teeth were broken from weeks of eating rocks trying to survive. I hand-fed her rotisserie chicken and rice and made her a vet appointment for a second opinion. Again, I promised her that if she kept fighting, I would too. We got her treatment at the vet, and the tech that treated her fell in love and adopted her. Maple is still alive today.

Since 2019, I have served as the adoption coordinator for Blaine County and a board member for Friends Furever Animal Rescue (Jerome, Idaho). I have been part of several large-scale hoarding cases where partners and I were responsible for seizing and finding fosters and permanent homes. I have fostered over 100 animals, coordinated and transported animals thousands of miles, and organized the pulling of abandoned and unhoused dogs from reservations, in addition to countless dogs from high-kill shelters.