02/02/2025
Greetings our friends!
Welcome to 2025!
We have been very busy behind the scenes continuing to help our current dogs, our community, our Veterans, and of course, trying to purchase our new vehicle.
There are a lot of changes happening mot just here with MPTR, but in our rescue community and the world. We are seeing more and more rescues close or limit their assistance. Which, adds more stress to those rescues that continue to grow and move forward.
As our programs continue to grow and change, other programs have dwindled down some. While we will still answer the calls from shelters in special circumstances,and help as space allows, we are going to shift our resources more towards helping the community, Veterans, Domestic violence victims, local and long distance transport and many other community minded support programs.
Our biggest task currently is, we are in the process of condensing our location by putting everything MPTR in one place. This will allow us more time to work on what's needed rather then go from storage place to storage place gathering supplies that may be needed to help the situation at hand. This will also help us consolidate supplies and clean up what's no longer needed. One never realizes how much "stuff" they can accumulate over 13 years of rescue.
About the truck....
This posed to be a more daunting task then expected. First, was locating a vehicle that suited our needs. That was easy. What I was most shocked about was the lack of assistance some dealerships would provide. I could not get any dealerships, except one, to commit to providing us with a quote or bill of sale in writing. Yes, I'm just as baffled as you. These dealerships tend to work with those that have funds in hand. We were not looking for a donation, as we had a secure donor waiting on us to provide certain documentation to them for approval.
This process is still ongoing. The board of directors for MPTR have met and unanimously voted on a vehicle. That approval was then sent on to the donor and we are awaiting final word. I'm told that it's looking good so far!! And are just weeks away from a purchase. 🤞🏻
Lastly, we are closing down the grooming aspect of MPTR. While we are sad that we had to shut this down, the loss of clients and not many new clients coming in, it just wasn't providing us the funds needed to sustain it.
We created this service with a very experienced groomer and friend. She was kind enough to help groom many of our rescued animals at no cost. This service also helped provide donated funds to MPTR. Like many rescues that have thrift or consignment shops to help fund them, we applied that model to grooming. It's a good funding model and maybe we can bring it back some day.
This also means that we will be reaching out to our community more to help us with funding as the situation arises.
To our clients over the past 8 years, thank you. You not only had your animal groomed by a professional, but you helped us save and help so many animals.
I will update you all more as time allows.
From all of us at MPTR, thank you for your continued support.
Rick Roper
President
