My Nonprofit Reviews

kathleengioeli
Review for Ruff House Rescue, Inc., Oceanside, NY, USA
I have too many amazing, heart wrenching, bittersweet, emotion filled stories with Ruff House to choose just one but I will start with my first encounter...What first started as transporting dog food quickly escalated to driving the transport van of deserving babies rescued from kill shelters to the safety of the undeniably best rescue around, Ruff House Rescue. I originally thought fostering dogs was unattainable-it was only for people heavily involved. I always admired it,but never thought it was something I could do. One day my director told me a foster she had for “4 tiny puppies” backed out and she was desperate. My sister and I have since fostered 171 dogs to date and continue to volunteer in many other ways with Ruff House! Since my first time fostering Ruff House has walked me through everything there was to learn. I have learned so much from the 6 years volunteering with this rescue than I have anywhere else in my 33 years of life. Ruff House Reacue, especially Diane, has an undeniable love for animals and gives their all for every single dog. Ruff house has taught me passion, dedication, patience among many other things..Above all; Diane has taught me selflessness, that no matter what is being thrown our way the dogs need us, rescue never stops! Ruff House is the real deal, Ruff House IS reacue. I have adopted 3 of my fosters, created many memories, and made many lifelong—more like family, friends. I admire every single volunteer at the rescue because I know how hard we all work with the same mission in mind, to get the dogs home. We host adoption events every weekend to give all of our dogs as many opportunities as we can to get adopted, and so we can rescue more innocent dogs and cats from death row. Ruff House’s priority is sending dogs & cats to the best homes we can find. I can from the bottom of my heart say rescue is the most difficult and rewarding thing I have every experienced in my life and I am so grateful for Diane and the volunteers at Ruff House Rescue for letting me be apart of it, I’m so proud to be here doing this with you all!