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My strong bond with the animal world began at an early age.  My family raised pedigree Airedale Terriers for a short time and the movie Bambi made a lasting impres-sion.  My passion for animal welfare grew after rescuing a starving cat from my neighbor's tall maple tree and reuniting it with its owners, miles away, when I was 15

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 Overtime, this led to being an adoption volunteer with the ASPCA in NYC, President of the Windham County Humane Society -Vermont and a long-time volunteer and foster-mom with the Seattle Animal Shelter.  I have rescued many dogs, cats, birds and other small wildlife and HLW has don-ated hundreds of collars and leads to animal shelters in Vermont, Massachu-setts and Washington.

My beloved English Springer Spaniel Muppet shared

my life for over 14 years.  I look forward to the day

when I can welcome home a new dog.

I am a former marketing executive for Nordstrom and Revlon and several other Fortune 500 companies. I grew up in Westchester County, New York where my folks, Jeanne 92 and John 94, still reside in the house I grew up in - next to the neighbor's tall maple tree. 

wishing you all the best - HL