As our Saving Sully family, we are sure that many of you have noticed that over the last several years adoptions and fosters have been steadily on the decline. Saving Sully has been faced with the challenge of being able to continue our work at the level of care we strive for. All of the dogs that enter our rescue deserve the absolute best and we often take on the more challenging cases that other rescues pass by.
Our board and team of core volunteers has remained steady and strong, we like to say we are small but mighty; but we are feeling the strain.
You may have noticed over the past 2 to 3 years, that we have frequently partnered with fellow local rescue group WilsonHaus. Morgan, the founder of WilsonHaus, has done extensive fundraising to support Saving Sully as well as many other rescues across the country. Through working with WilsonHaus, we have discovered that we have a shared mission, vision and values as far as rescue work as a whole. We have been fortunate enough to be able to grow together, share contacts, share resources, and share in the work and burden of dog rescue.
After extensive discussion and planning, Saving Sully will be dissolving as an independent rescue, and joining forces with WilsonHaus Rescue. Since we share so many resources already, it feels like a natural progression. The work that Saving Sully has done will be continued through WilsonHaus.
What does this mean for Saving Sully supporters, funds, and resources? We have worked on a plan to make sure that the work we care so deeply about will continue. After bills have been paid and no further debt remains, all residual funds will be forwarded to local rescues in need, some of our Texas partner rescues, and spay and neuter efforts in the south where overpopulation continues to drive the need for rescues to exist. The van will be sold, and those funds will be donated as well. Supplies will be sorted through and given to groups/people who can use them.
We have been fortunate enough that several current Saving Sully volunteers and fosters have had the opportunity to work with WilsonHaus already. WilsonHaus has their own process and needs for volunteers and fosters, and we highly encourage anyone who is still interested in supporting rescue to look into what the needs are at WilsonHaus, and any other rescue you feel passionate about.
For those who have adopted dogs from Saving Sully, we will still be around! The Board will continue to respond to emails and address needs that come up for the next year. After that year has passed, emails will be forwarded to WilsonHaus so that they can continue to be addressed. No one will be left hanging. We will continue to keep the Home is Where the Paws Are page up to be able to keep sharing updates on the dogs adopted and loved since the very beginning of Saving Sully.
When Saving Sully was founded in 2018, it was done on the premise of "rescue done right" and we feel we have stayed true to that this entire time. We feel that we no longer have capacity to maintain this work at its optimal level, and the dogs we serve deserve only the best. Consolidating with WilsonHaus allows this vital work to continue and allows it to be done so in a sustainable way.
Rescue is and should be, a community. The work still needs to be done, and partnerships make it possible to save more lives. We understand that this may be an unexpected change for some but we are confident that this is a positive evolution in the long run. You will still find many of the Saving Sully faces at WilsonHaus and in the rescue world at large, we aren't leaving, just redefining how rescue looks for us.
