Ramona

Frosted Faces Foundation is dedicated to delivering solutions to fulfill the promise of family and adequate veterinary care for senior animals whose love and lives are in jeopardy.

Hearts & Hands Animal Rescue became a non-profit 502(c)(3) in 2010, but has been operating as a privately funded rescue for 10 years prior in this same location. After we lost the entire ranch in the 2007 CA Wildfires, we founded Hearts & Hands Animal Rescue as a non-profit so that we could continue to serve our communities. We not only rescue dogs, cats, horses and other domestic and farm pets, but we conserve the two endangered species of zebra and the Wild Mongolian Horse, the Przewalski's horse. Our animals in recovery give back by sharing their stories of recovery with our wounded warriors and children with needs. Once an animal has fully recovered, we then search for that perfect adoptive home for him/her where they will live out their lives forever with proper care, love and affection. Nancy Nunke, one of our co-founders has been rescuing animals for her lifetime. She has spent 40 years with all animals, but learned from the zebras how to finally communicate with animals using their own language, including behavior and vocalizations. With this knowledge turned skill, she is able to become best friends with her Friendship Training TM with any species. Everyone who steps through the gates of Hearts & Hands Animal Rescue talks about the "magic" there. Interspecies friendships are seen everywhere and humans are seen talking in full sentences to the animals, and the animals are seen responding in ways that are simply amazing.

Our rescue is NikaPower, Inc. We used to hold our adoption events at pet stores, through private showings and public events. However, this proved to be extremely stressful for our dogs (all but the private showings). We started searching for a physical store front and found the perfect spot by our home. This was the birth of The Rescued Pup Boutique. We had to increase our adoption fees to cover our expenses, but so far it has been working out great. We have placed over 60 dogs since February of this year. we chose to name our adoption center something different than the name of our rescue, to help with marketing and to make it clearer what we were doing. At our location we also have boutique items for sale and all of the proceeds go to help our rescue efforts. We are all volunteers that work for free at the shop. We feel it is a great opportunity to get the public involved in volunteering to help animals, we also work to educate about the importance of shots and fixing pets in addition to microchip. Our location is in a more rural part of San Diego, but we are attracting visitors from all over. Our dogs come to the shop everyday and go home at night with their fosters. None of our dogs are kept in shelter type of accommodations. When visitors come to our shop they are welcome to play with, walk, cuddle, brush or just hang out with the dogs. We have a couch that the dogs are allowed on so the humans can visit. We have a solid following of frequent flyers that come solely to play with the dogs. We encourage this because it helps our dogs to be socialized and the dogs are offering their services back to the community. Nothing like stopping by after a long day of work to de-stress with a dog!