Hopeful Tails
Dapper Dog's affiliate animal rescue organization
Mission
It is the mission of Hopeful Tails to maintain a "Responsible Rescue" in which we can bring as many animals as possible to safety, cleanliness, health, security and comfort, with the objective of adopting all into loving families who are the right fit for the right rescue. We hope to be able to grow and expand our rescue. As we grow our compassionate Hopeful Tails community, so we can continue our excellent adoptions at the current rate of 100%, with many more otherwise hopeless animals, in places and circumstances in which they are hopeless.
ABOUT
Hopeful Tails is a non-profit animal rescue, founded by Gerry Tartaglione, who has saved and well placed thousands of dogs and cats over the course of 30 years, including the displaced dogs of Hurricane Katrina and many other national disasters.
We rescue animals locally, as well as transporting them from all throughout the South, including the Mexican border, and both the Indiana and Amish puppy mills.
Every dog is assessed, and all their needs are met. We provide the comfort, health, security and safety, including foster care, when necessary, training, when possible, and lots of TLC.
We have a 100% excellent adoption rate, and each adoption is thoroughly screened with the knowledge that the rescue adopted may be returned to Hopeful Tails, if that becomes necessary. Gerry's uncanny ability to match the right rescue with the right family has many of our adoptive families returning many times over the years, and frequently adopting more than one of our rescues.
Through our community, we have been able to increase the numbers of animals we rescue, as the awareness of and knowledge of our integrity in responsible rescue grows.
It is our goal to save as many helpless and hopeless animals as we responsibly can, place them well, and increase our ability to create many more Hopeful Tails!