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Kady Hammer -- Dog Adoption Coordinator and Foster
Post Date:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
I accidentally fell into the rescue/fostering world. I had grown up with dogs, three St. Bernards as a kid and my parents later had a yellow lab and currently have two yellow labs. It wasn't until the beginning of 2022 that I really dived into the life of fostering and rescues - and it's been one of the more rewarding experiences thus far.
Lindsey Cope -- Lucky Dog's Program Coordinator For Events
Post Date:
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
As is the case for so many in this passion-driven field, my love for all things animal and rescue began at a very early age; from caterpillars found outside to a box of abandoned kittens, I wanted to save them all. Although we were a dog-loving family, my dad would often have to tell me “no more heartbeats” when I begged to keep a kitten, lizard, or fish (true story: I once found a goldfish swimming in the flooded gutter during a bad storm and “rescued” it).
Ryan Brown -- Cat Foster, Adoption Screener and Event Volunteer
Post Date:
Friday, July 1, 2022
“I said to foster a dog, not a cat!!!” A furious gchat message early Monday morning sent to me from my friend after showing him that I picked up my first foster cat from Lucky Dog Animal Rescue.
“Mom, can we go see the cats in Petco? Just to look at them?”- Me at 8 years old.
Of course, we came home with two kittens. Life with two cats is how it was supposed to be. I had lost the last member of my childhood kitty duo a few months prior, and things just weren’t the same. I think we were all missing life without the morning meows for food and pets, the comedy of nightly zoomies, and the satisfaction of being the chosen lap while watching “Survivor” on Friday night with the family (and had forgotten the periodic “gifts” of dead mice and rats in the living room).
Alyssa Ferdetta -- Volunteer Cat Adoption Coordinator and Foster
Post Date:
Monday, May 2, 2022
I have always loved animals. The walls of my childhood bedroom were lined with inspirational cat posters. At the age of twelve, I told my parents that I was a vegetarian because I liked cute, fuzzy animals more than I liked eating them. Growing up around dogs and cats (and the odd rabbit), pets were an integral part of our family.
Madison Richwine – Program Manager for Veterinary Care & Foster
Post Date:
Monday, April 4, 2022
I grew up in a world surrounded by animals. We of course had our own resident dogs; Marley, Taz, Belle, & Lily that made affluent impacts on my childhood. My grandmother was an equine enthusiast, and I was fortunate enough to have had the privilege of riding horses alongside her for many years. Beyond that, my father was an avid outdoorsman. We spent many weekends in waiters, thigh high in mud and muck trying to reach bird nests that my dad had built himself to restore native populations. Along the way we would encounter whitetail deer, mallard ducks, garden snakes, etc.
Emily Jagdmann -- Marketing and Communications Manager and Foster
Post Date:
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
As far back as I remember growing up, I always wanted a dog. From the time I was a little girl, I remember begging my parents for a pet. I even did a bait-and-switch (although I didn’t know that’s I was doing at the time), where I asked my mom if I could keep and name some worms that had crawled out after a summer rain as our family pets. Unsurprisingly, she relented, and shortly thereafter we added a beagle named Patches to our family. Growing up with Patches was the best. He was my best friend, my study buddy, and we had so many adventures growing up together.
I always had cats (and a dog!) growing up. I made extra cash as the neighborhood cat sitter. I "rescued" the litter of kittens that were born in my neighbor's shed when I was 10. My high school job was cleaning kennels and walking dogs at a nearby veterinary clinic. All this to say, animal rescue has always been in the back of my mind. I grew up, adopted 2 kittens of my own from a local rescue in Michigan and eventually moved with my family to Washington, DC. 5 years ago I lost one of those two kittens to cancer.
My journey into rescue started when I was ten years old. It was the beginning of lockdown, summer of 2020. I was ten years old. My friend and I had started a dog sitting and dog walking business and I realized how much I loved working with animals. I started to think that I might want to become a veterinarian. Then I decided to start researching animal rescues to see if I could find a way to volunteer. It was very hard to find one that I could work with because of my age, and I remember being overjoyed when I found Lucky Dog's youth program.
Robin Rodensky -- Adoption Screener and Matchmaker
Post Date:
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Like most things in my life, it has been a long and winding road to Lucky Dog Animal Rescue. Growing up, my parents were not dog people – my mother’s view was that if she wanted a dog, she would have had a third child. My husband, on the other hand, always had a dog but needed a way to convince me. As the story goes, one cold wintry day a very cold hungry stray puppy hopped into his car at the end of his work day, which began my journey to Lucky Dog!
