Has "No-Kill" Gone Off Track? 32 Years in Animal Welfare with Tammy Fox

So Tammy, I'll just start by you just giving a quick rundown of your history in animal welfare, just to give people an idea of where you're coming from.

Here.

I started my career in animal welfare in Austin, Texas at the Austin Humane Society underneath Carey Maticus.

And I

was

in

1994.

I was a vet tech before that.

And Austin Humane Society is a well-known organization that is limited intake and serves Austin and the general area there.

And then in 2009, One, I went up to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and I took a position there as VP of Operations for the Humane League of Lancaster County.

And I was there until 2005, and then I came down to Key West and took the executive director job for the Florida Keys SPCA.

I was here until 2009, and then I was blessed with my baby boy, who's now 17.

And I freaked out a little bit because...

My whole career and life was centered around animals.

Children were not part of my life plan.

So we

moved back to

Pennsylvania to be closer to family, thinking that I would never have the opportunity to come back down to Key West.

And on the drive out of here, I was already grieving leaving this community and this organization.

But we were lucky to have an opportunity to come back in 2012 to man a capital campaign and get this new facility built and be part of this organization as executive director again so i actually grew up in animal welfare my dad was the executive director for the montgomery county humane society in rockville maryland in the 70s 80s so i roamed the halls as a very young girl and that's where my affinity for animal welfare was born and i yeah to to help animals so