Pwdca Rescue Inc.

To educate primarily the public as to the needs and demands of the Portuguese Water Dog in order to

Goal One: Care and rehabilitation of those dogs brought in to rescue

Goal Two: To maintain funding for our organization in order to offer all the services necessary for a successful rehab

Goal Three: Education of the Public

We have two National Co-ordinators responsible for maintaining the Adoption Applications, Rescue Adoption Case paperwork, and will file quarterly Adoption Reports. They also report on open rescue cases to the PWDCA Rescue Board to keep the Board informed. They handle this and more as presented per case. This requires training as they each cover half the country and manage all the area rescue reps who work for them. Our work is done remotely until intake of each dog . So all this requires hours of training and knowledge by those volunteers who have done it longer. Our turnaround can be high as this is a job of passion and burnout is our greatest risk for our volunteers.

COVID happened. With that, people were at home and thought it would be great to go and get a dog. Then they went back to work and our Rescue numbers have gone up but, of course, we are working with the same (and in some parts of the country fewer) numbers of volunteers/