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When a Deeth resident moved to Highland Manor in Elko due to health issues, she needed to find a home for her beloved companion, a Great Pyrenees.<\/p>\n
\u201cA friend told her we could help,\u201d says Desiree Carlyle, a foster care coordinator for Endless Pawsibilities Foundation.<\/p>\n
The new nonprofit\u2019s volunteers rescue and place pets in homes throughout Northern Nevada, from Wendover to Winnemucca.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe not only found a home for her dog but a new companion for her, too,\u201d says Desiree, who also lives in Deeth. \u201cAfter settling in, she called in January and said she was ready for a new dog. We had a match\u2014a Chihuahua cross that had been at the shelter. It was meant to be. They\u2019re perfect for each other. Pets and people can have an incredible bond.\u201d<\/p>\n Desiree gets about 20 to 40 calls a week about pets needing homes \u201cbecause someone with pets has died or people divorce and can\u2019t take their pets with them in their new homes. We\u2019ve had a few cases of pet hoarders, too.\u201d<\/p>\n She learned of Endless Pawsibilities through its Facebook page after Carlin residents Jon and Misty Eklund started it. For several years, the Eklunds had worked with rescues and done animal transporting but decided to try to make a bigger difference and help more animals by obtaining a 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax-exempt status in February 2023. Jon volunteered to be president, and Misty is the fundraising coordinator.<\/p>\n Misty says the organization has grown more quickly than expected through social media and word-of-mouth. It has a network of roughly 50 volunteers.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s due to a lot of amazing people in the community who also love and care about animals,\u201d she says. \u201cWe want to try as best we can to help rural animals, shelter animals, and abandoned animals. They don\u2019t have anyone to advocate for them, and they can easily get overlooked. We even found homes for turtles and a parakeet.\u201d<\/p>\n Misty says the bond between pets and people motivates her.<\/p>\n \u201cThroughout my life, animals have always been there for me unconditionally,\u201d Misty says. \u201cTheir love is genuine. When we started this rescue, we wanted to give back to animals that don\u2019t always have someone standing up for them.\u201d<\/p>\n The organization\u2019s treasurer, Thalia Montana-Syme of Elko, became involved after reading a request for foster care on the foundation\u2019s Facebook page. \u201cI picked up the dog from the shelter, and he ended up staying with me for a few weeks before finding his forever home,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was so rewarding to help that one dog that I continued to foster and became more involved.\u201d<\/p>\n She kept one foster dog, Sprocket, who is the head of the welcoming committee for fosters at her home.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s sweet and gets along with everyone,\u201d Thalia says. Her 7-year-old daughter, Quinn, also welcomes and helps care for their foster friends.<\/p>\n \u201cShe gets emotional when it\u2019s time to say goodbye, but she has a really good understanding of the difference we are making by helping them,\u201d Thalia says. \u201cShe\u2019s part of the future generation that will be advocating for animals.\u201d<\/p>\n The organization\u2019s veterinarian, Dr. Tessa Morgan, says there is a huge need for pet care in the county.<\/p>\n \u201cNorthern Nevada is a vast area with a city-run kill shelter in Elko and five towns without formal animal services,\u201d says Tessa, a Wells resident. \u201cThis shelter has to serve all of Elko County, which is an impossible task. It\u2019s really gratifying to see an animal\u2014lost, stray or from a shelter\u2014find a loving forever family.\u201d<\/p>\n Tessa grew up on a ranch near Lamoille. \u201cI always loved being around animals and knew I wanted to be a veterinarian and come back to the area to work,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n After graduating from Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2015, she was hired at the Elko Veterinary Clinic and met the Eklunds, who were clients.<\/p>\n \u201cWe became friends with our common interests\u2014a vision to provide care for pets in the area,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Last September, she started a mobile practice, replacing Star Valley veterinarian Dr. Hannah Rodriguez, who moved away.<\/p>\n \u201cI know professionally and personally how pets bring so much joy to people. At home, being around our pets brightens our day,\u201d she says of herself, her husband, Craig, and their young daughter. \u201cOur dogs and cats came to us after people passed away, or they were strays, or their owners abandoned them at the vet clinic in Elko. We understand that animals can sometimes get left behind. We even have a rooster and some hens because their owners couldn\u2019t keep them anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Eventually, Endless Pawsibilities would like to have a mobile clinic to provide affordable veterinary services for low-income families, veterans, senior citizens, and rural communities in Northern Nevada, Tessa says.<\/p>\n Misty says she and volunteers are grateful to veterinarians for their compassion and empathy.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re here so animals are not falling through the cracks and to do the best we can to improve our community for future generations of animals and people,\u201d she says. \u201cPeople in the community have opened their eyes and hearts to help us. We absolutely love the support we receive. Helping pets\u2014even one at a time\u2014keeps us going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New nonprofit volunteers are matchmakers for pets in Northern Nevada By Dianna Troyer When a Deeth resident moved to Highland Manor in Elko due to health issues, she needed to find a home for her beloved companion, a Great Pyrenees. \u201cA friend told her we could help,\u201d says Desiree Carlyle, a foster care coordinator for […]\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":35121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35124,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117\/revisions\/35124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wrec.coop\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-642-340x293.jpg\")
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