my friends helped me get started. we live in a big county and the local shelters just kill almost all they get and are never there and i used to work there. they have just no help for alot of the older people with pets that are unadoptable and i just work to get the dogs here to me and we work with volenteers to get the animals to homes, fosters, vets etc. we are small but try and help in a big way.