Miguel Juárez interviews Elena Perez, founder of Paws of Promise Animal Rescue Organization in the first article of our new series – Paws in the Desert. Perez’s organization transports stray animals to other states.
Miguel Juárez (MJ): Your Facebook profile states that you are from Brooklyn, New York. Did you engage in rescue work there?
Elena Perez (EP): No, I did not engage in rescue work there. We moved here from New York about nine years ago. I didn’t even know there was such thing as a rescue until we moved here, and I just kept finding dogs in the street…