Our Board of Directors

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President/Social Media: ​Kathy Daller

After many years in medical administration, Kathy retired in 2016.  A natural born animal lover, it had always been a dream of hers to work with animals.  She saw a FB post about the need for volunteers at the shelter and decided this would be her newfound "career".  Kathy has been volunteering for 9 years and cherishes every day she's there.  She also became a dog mom to one of the sweetest little pups at the shelter 8 years ago.  His name is Gunner, a rat terrier/Jack Russell mix.  He's been with her for 8 years now and is the joy of her life.  Kathy believes everyone needs a shelter dog to complete their life.

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Vice President: Marilyn Mitchell

Marilyn was raised in New Orleans, LA and moved to Brooksville full time in 2013 to be where her daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons live. Marilyn worked most of her life in the insurance industry in the southeast areas of the U.S. She and her husband, Michael, have been married for over 45 years. Not long after the passing of her cat Zoe, who she had for 17-1/2 years, two feral cats showed up at her back door. She named them Mercy and ZZ. One day Mercy’s food kept disappearing, so she waited to see who came around after she put the food out and found a stray tabby was stealing the food. Marilyn was able to trap the cat and bring it to PetLuv for spay/neuter surgery, but they called her to let her know it was a female cat and that she had been nursing kittens. Luckily, the kittens were found in her neighbors' garage, and over the next two weeks Marilyn and her grandson turned the hissing feral kittens into friendly, playful kittens. Unable to find a shelter that would take the mother cat and kittens because they were all full, Marilyn ended up at Hernando County Animal Services and dropped them off for adoption. She ended up speaking with the Director and learned that there were no volunteers for cats, so Marilyn started cat socialization and helped to train more cat volunteers, too. She eventually asked to be considered for volunteering in the vet room and surgery, so it’s been over 4 years now that Marilyn has been assisting in the shelter’s vet room in surgery.

 

Secretary: ​Dottie Brown

Dottie is a retired RN and Nursing Home Administrator.  Dottie has a passion for working with seniors as well as with animals.  This makes her thoroughly enjoy working in the shelter's Vet Clinic.  Dottie splits her time between Nebraska and Ridge Manor, traveling back and forth with her 4 legged companion, Copy Cat.

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Treasurer: Debbie Magid

​​Debbie moved to Florida from New Jersey in 2022  after owning a medical transcription business for over 25 years.  She quickly became involved in volunteer activities and when asked if she would be interested in helping shelter animals, she was ready to help in any way.  Her love for animals made the decision easy because her rescue/adopted beagle named Katy is her life.  Katy is so spoiled yet so deserving. "She rescued me like I did her."

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Director/Website: Sarah Caskie

Sarah has always loved animals, but it wasn't until she was 15 years old and volunteered to work in the kennels at Hernando County Animal Services that she realized she wanted to be more involved with animals.  When she was 19 she started working at HCAS full time and worked there for almost 9 years until November 2015.  After spending 6 years in the county's Zoning Department, Sarah moved to Colorado.  Thankfully, she remains an active board member.  Sarah shares her new home with her rescue dog Forrest, and they enjoy lots of hiking and camping together.​

 

 

​Our Dedicated Volunteers:

Jill Armbrecht

Gary Sechen

Wynn Miller

Diane Galinski

Bob Galinski

Kelly Love

Carol Bunting

Lili Eve Southerland

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