The Doolittle’s Story
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Donna Doolittle’s animal rescue.
The Doolittle’s Story
Donna moved to the Far North Kaitaia in 2015 with her two children after graduating with a Diploma in Veterinary Nursing. Stepping straight into full time employment at a local vet clinic she soon realised that there was a serious animal welfare issue in the community. Brining home day after day, stray, neglected and inhumanely abandoned animals, her home began to resemble an animal shelter.
Emotionally and financially, this began to take a toll and with intervention from her family a Facebook page was developed, Donna Doolittle’s Animal Rescue, to let the community know what she was doing, and the support was incredible. In 2018 the rescue became a registered non-profit charity, expanding every year in all aspects of animal rescue of dogs/puppies, cats/kittens, pigs, sheep, goats, birds, rabbits etc, with hundreds of animals being adopted throughout the whole of New Zealand North and South each year to approved families.
Today the Doolittle’s have three vehicles on the road out in the community supporting families and their animals with food, parasite control, bedding, desexing, microchipping and vaccinations. We run all year-round desexing campaigns, event days, visit schools to educate, fundraise, advocacy and respond to emergency situations. This is all done by an immediate team of dedicated volunteers that share the same passion as Donna.
