Hi, my name is Laura and I learned about Wild Blue a few years ago after speaking with a staff member from Best Friends. Rick and I were looking for a local rescue to donate to that had the same goals as Best Friends. I was delivering some fleece beds I had sewn for the…
Hi there! My name is Gen and I’ve been a volunteer at Wild Blue for about fifteen months. I started volunteering when I was seven years old and haven’t stopped since. My husband, Joe, says that I can’t say “no” to anyone in need. 🤣🤣🤣 My youngest daughter and I help out in the sanctuary…
Hey there, I’m Kat! I live in Black Forest with my husband and our four boys. Our family continues with 2 rescue pups, Hugo and Zoey, and our adopted cat, Chester. Chester joined the family in Spring of 2018 as a 2# ball of peach fuzz and has since grown to a 12# beautiful orange…
Hello, my name is Audra and I have been a volunteer with Wild Blue since December, 2018. I moved to Colorado Springs from a small farming community in northeast Colorado in 2007. I am the front desk manager for a motel in the downtown Colorado Springs area, after transferring from another local motel where I was…
Hi, my name is Allison and I’m a 2009 transplant from WI. I thoroughly enjoy the animal welfare industry and have been involved in it on many different levels since I was a little kid. Being around animals has been not only been a wonderful hobby but a fun profession over the years. My appreciation…
We moved to Colorado in June 2015 from Houston. We have LOVED living here. I met Debbie Carter in the cat food section of Walmart one afternoon. We started chatting and the next thing I know I’m volunteering for Wild Blue. Lesson learned, do not talk to anyone in the cat food aisle! But seriously,…
Hello, my name is Teresa, I have been a foster for Wild Blue since October 2017, when I started Shirley was going out of town and she brought me her foster kittens and a wealth of information which I greatly appreciated. One of the kittens she brought was Rialto, who ended up being a foster…
My name is Christine, and my family and I moved to Monument five years ago after my husband, Joel, retired from the Army. Together, Joel and I have a 19-year-old daughter named Mallory and a 16-year-old son named Nate—both are animal lovers, I’m proud to say! We have a geriatric terrier mix named Mia, two…
Hi, I’m Joyce Walker. I started as a foster with Wild Blue in June 2017 when one of the neighborhoods strays we had been feeding had kittens under our front porch. We foster failed on Alyria (fka Gladiola), our little tuxie girl so much purrsonality from that first litter. We also foster failed on a…
Before coming to Wild Blue, I was the furthest thing from being an animal lover. I never had any pets growing up, and, frankly, I always thought cats were aloof and obnoxious! But in early 2017, I had the opportunity to babysit a sweet, loving and playful cat who turned my negative attitude about cats…