The Rescue was founded in 2019 by Melissa Smith and her son, Jake Leo, after visiting Puerto Rico and seeing that the island was inundated with stray, neglected and abandoned animals. On the last day of their vacation, they met a woman who was feeding stray dogs. They immediately wanted to keep three of the dogs but had no idea how they were going to get them home. Eventually, they got back to New York with the dogs and Melissa Smith began devising a plan to save the strays of Puerto Rico with one of her coworkers, Kylie McCarron. Thus, Hope for Dogs and Cats PR was born.
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