NewDawn Dog Rescue
Meet Dawn ,Volunteer Extraordinaire.
Dawn has lived across the street from the animal shelter for 15 years and during that time has rescued close to 700 dogs and 12 cats. She is not really a cat person but a few years ago she could see that the cats weren't going to make it out of the shelter alive so she fixed up a little building for them and they were safe with Dawn and Don until they could be adopted.
Although the great majority of the dogs are from the Nevada County Animal Shelter, Dawn has also rescued dogs from other counties when she learns a dog is in danger of being euthanized (killed).
Six years ago Dawn decided to put all of the Nevada County Animal Shelter animals on Petfinder www.newdawnrescue.petfinder.com . This expanded enormously the possibilities for the animals to be adopted outside of Nevada County.
As a result of this, shelter animals live not only in Nevada County but Virginia, Illinois, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, Indiana, Colorado and even British Columbia. In addition 100's of animals have been adopted in the Bay Area and some in the LA Area and all over the state of California.
In these six years Dawn has photographed approximately 10,000 animals, written about and put them on the Internet. In addition more recently she has put them on three other websites giving the animals even more exposure. Dawn also makes mini videos to add to the write ups, which shows the animals in action.
Dawn spends at least 25 hours of her time every week photographing, writing about and placing these animals on the internet. She has spent thousands of dollars out of her own pocket to help the animals she rescues as they often have medical problems. I remember one little Cocker Spaniel that Dawn spent over $2,000 on to help it regain its health and adopted it out for $65.
There are no words big enough to thank Dawn for all she has done as a volunteer for the animals in this county.
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