With 2019 coming to a close, United Yorkie Rescue wants to wish all of our many friends, members, and supporters a very happy New Year and our hopes for a wonderful 2020. As we celebrate the close of our 18th year in operation, we would like to share just a few of the accomplishments that YOU helped us bring about. 2019 was our second highest year on record for number of rescue intakes with a mind-blowing 279 dogs welcomed into our organization including 20 dogs from a Horrible 100 Puppy Mill in South Georgia and several more from a similar case in Texas. Our members worked tirelessly with law enforcement to help provide necessary evidence and documentation to help ensure these operations were shut down and the individuals involved faced justice. We continued to work with many shelters and city, state and county animal control agencies to save dogs who would otherwise be on death row. UYR has a long history of taking in dogs with extreme and costly medical needs that would never make it to adoption day without UYR to step in and save them before their time runs out. These pups desperately need our help, we are their last hope. Additionally, our Forever Ours hospice program continues to thrive and welcome dogs who are terminally ill or otherwise unadoptable. Forever Ours pups live out their days in loving foster homes where they receive love, medical care and ensured quality of life until they cross the rainbow bridge. On a sobering note, 2019 also broke a new record for Veterinary care expenditures as we spent a staggering $262,000 getting UYR dogs to a healthy, adoptable state. We are beyond blessed to have so many wonderful donors who have helped cover the majority of these expenses and we simply cannot begin to express our gratitude for the amazing support we so desperately need to continue the work we do. This year was unique in that we were forced to migrate our website to a new server with a new operating system in December. This was a major accomplishment given 18 years of data to migrate (many thanks to our webmaster). We hope that in 2020 we will add an improved end user experience to our homepage making it easier to donate, access information about our dogs, complete applications, and access educational materials and other resources so stay tuned to our homepage and our social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) for updates.

Our Board of Directors and ALL OF US at United Yorkie Rescue want to extend our never-ending gratitude to you for all of your amazing help and support in 2019. Whether its through your generous donations, your prayers and caring, or your invaluable time spreading the word about our pups and our mission, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We wish you a year filled with wet noses, puppy breath, slobbery kisses, warm furry bellies to rub and a hope that the DAY WILL COME when there are none left to rescue. Happy New Year!