Peace of Mind Dog Rescue: Helping Senior Dogs and Senior People
With senior individuals being a vulnerable and under-served population, senior rescue dogs are even more vulnerable. On one hand, senior dogs in shelters are more likely to be euthanized, on another, dogs owned by senior people are more likely to be left behind because they are no longer able to be taken care of.
The organization called Peace of Mind Dog Rescue has taken the initiative to not only advocate for senior rescue dogs in shelters but to also provide dog services to senior people to ensure they can keep their dogs with them as long as possible. They have been able merge the two causes of helping senior rescues and people in Pacific Grove, California.
BIO:
Carie Broecker shares her life with four lucky senior dogs, and is usually fostering multiple POMDR dogs, too.
Carie co-founded POMDR with Monica Rua in 2009. Upon its inception, she worked full time running POMDR as Board President, and in 2010 Carie won the American Red Cross Animal Rescue Hero Award for her role in starting POMDR. In 2012 she was hired as Executive Director, POMDR’s first paid staff person.
Prior to co-founding POMDR, Carie was one of the first volunteers for Animal Friends Rescue Project (AFRP) in Pacific Grove, CA. She joined the AFRP board in 1999, and served for 12 years as Treasurer and unsalaried Executive Director.
Carie and her husband Scott are the publishers of Coastal Canine magazine, a quarterly publication dedicated to promoting rescue and adoption.