About Us

Our organizers were all associated with other animal rescue groups and learned from their successes and failures.  The core group were all pet professionals and included a full time pet sitter, a dog trainer, a dog groomer, a part time pet sitter, animal control volunteer, and a former pet tech stay at home mom, along with huge support from our clients, friends, and  family.

As the saying goes, "Life happens", and people change focus in life and move on.  Rather than changing this page with adding and subtracting people, suffice it to say, Sharon Sandusky and Robert Troutt are the caretakers of this rescue shelter, with a select few volunteers who help with cage cleaning, fostering, adoptions, and much much more.

Our original intent was to focus on exotic pets and work primarily on the Southside of Indy.  We inherited a large group of exotic pets when we separated from another rescue group.  These domestic rabbits, guinea pigs, and some small farm animals, i.e. chickens and ducks.  

We would like to thank the 2008 Baxter YMCA Leaders Club who came up with the name of our rescue.  This dedicated group of young leaders, built two chicken coops to help us house these abandoned animals.  They learned a lot about teamwork, building construction, and the various animals we house, including the chickens they had chosen to help.