Our Story
Jessica Garibay started dreaming about a shelter in October 2018. She rescued a dog that had a 360° laceration around her neck. After calling all the associations in PV and others, nobody could help. She was fostering a puppy named Toast and couldn't bring her home. Jessica paid for her to stay at the vet and started posting on Facebook groups about her. Nancy Middleton told Jessica that as soon as the dog recovers she could take her to a ranch she has...but not before, as there was nobody who could take proper care of her. Besides the laceration, she was pregnant, about to give birth and the pregnancy could not be terminated. So she had her babies and 1 day after the puppies all died. Jessica and Nancy took her to the sheltered land then but as there was no fence...a couple of days later she escaped, she broke out of her kennel and escaped; she was never found.
Then Jessica told Nancy that she wanted to open a shelter that never denied care for a dog in need. Nancy offered her land to do it...as she and the owner bought that land for charitable use. First, they thought about a shelter for kids then they thought about a dog shelter but nothing had materialized. So Nancy offered the land to Jessica to start a shelter, with nothing but her own resources.
In February 2019 a group of people from Bucerias started to help...fundraising events were planned such as the first Bazaar and volunteers started to get more involved in the shelter. Over the months since February, we have had great strides. New kennels being built, a water pump to provide clean water for the dogs as well as a great walking program that has shown amazing results in the happiness and socialization of all our dogs.
We have created an amazing space for our dogs with safe clean kennels, a play area and we are continuing to grow. We are now working on the budget to build another kennel building with improvements that we learned from the first. We will keep everyone up to date on the shelter changes as they happen!!
