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Welcome to Fierce Love Rescue!

Thank You!

We want to thank all of those who are on the front lines in this fight again the Coronavirus. We also want to thank all of the businesses and employees that are keeping our lives as normal as possible. We appreciate each and every one you.

Coronavirus and Pets

We would like to share a few online resources that may answer questions you have about your pets and the Coronavirus.

May Message from Our Executive Director

It’s May 1st – May Day! May Day is a traditional festival of Spring. Over the years many celebrations around the world have included feasts, choosing a May Queen, and dancing around a Maypole, although I’m guessing that this year, people will celebrate May Day at home.

At FLR we are celebrating spring in the very best way for us – by bringing in more animals. In April, we brought nine animals into our organization, one of which was a pregnant female, Louisa, named for Louis May Alcott, author of Little Women. Louisa’s supposed due date was May 2, but she had other plans and went into labor in the morning of April 26. She had seven puppies - our "Author Pups" - each name comes from a famous author. ... Mama and pups are doing well. This is our third litter since opening for intake in April 2019. A big shout out to Rachel Johnson, our intrepid Assistant-Executive Director, and her husband, Curtis, for taking on Louisa after the two litters last year. We couldn’t appreciate them more.

Our incoming dogs were transferred from shelters. We have already started meeting one of our 2020 goals – to help shelters free up their resources – especially important during this Covid-19 crisis. Some of those transfers have been pregnant females (another 2020 goal), and we are especially grateful to be able to help in this way.

Our May Volunteer of the Month is Julie Felgar. Julie is fostering for us and currently dotes on her sugar gliders. We’re glad to have you aboard, Julie!

We hope that you all are well and safe, albeit still at home. We continue to focus on our mission and carrying it out in the safest way possible. We’re doing many of our activities online and when we need to go out in person (say we’re transporting animals) we take masks, gloves, sanitizers, etc. We want to keep all FLR-family members, our animals, our colleagues, and our supporters safe and protected.

Our Administrative Director, Susan Keenan, has started a new educational series called “Food for Thought.” She’s investigating current research projects of interest about animals. She’ll be taking a look at what's going on at various vet schools and reading through peer-reviewed, journal articles. Her first post was about implanting pacemakers in animals. Each installment will be posted on our Facebook page and also uploaded to our website. On our website, go to the Education menu and click the ‘Food for Thought’ menu item (https://www.fierceloverescue.org/info/display?PageID=20226#). This is exciting way for us to grow our educational programs during these days of social distancing.

We are so, incredibly thankful for all of the donations that we received have received thus far in 2020. We couldn’t do this without you.

I'll be talking with you again in June. Take care!

Jennifer Yanavitch

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Highlighted News
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York Daily Record -- Thursday April 18th, 2019

FLR Gives Back! Reading Books to Shelter Animals -- Friday December 21st, 2018

Volunteer of the Month

Volunteer of the Month - Julie Felgar

Julie Felgar

Julie Felgar has spent her career managing the nexus between the business world and public policy in the Government and Aerospace sectors. She is currently a Professor of Marketing Strategy in UNC’s Kenan Flagler MBA program while also working with Split Rock Aviation in assisting companies developing roadmaps to address strategic environmental and policy issues.

She is an active volunteer in the local community (Northern Virginia Community College Board, West Point Parents Club Officer, and Fierce Love Rescue Foster), and leads and trains disaster relief teams for Team Rubicon.

Julie worked for 15 years with Boeing in a variety of executive roles. Prior to that Julie served as director of International Operations in Washington, D.C., where she represented Boeing Company interests with U.S. government agencies, embassies, and trade and professional organizations promoting sound civil aviation policy and supporting sales in the Americas and Asia.

Before joining Boeing, Julie worked in the U.S. Government in a series of roles related to export controls at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. She graduated in 1997 with a master’s degree in International Studies/Business from George Washington University and has a bachelor of arts in International Studies from Florida State University. She is originally from Zimbabwe and is the active mother of five sons and two gorgeous, little Sugar Gliders.