Tracy Gilmore worked at a life insurance company for 15 years. Now, she’s working to ensure that animals have a good life and home.
The new Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter director says her main goal at the Colbert-Danielsville Road facility is to reduce the number of animals that must be euthanized at the shelter.
“The biggest long-term goal for me is to turn the euthanasia rate around to where we are not running so full all the time and having to euthanize as many animals,” she said.
The self proclaimed “Marine brat,” who was born in California, lives in Jefferson with two mini schnauzers she rescued and a hound dog she had on a foster basis before adopting for good.
After Gilmore was laid off from her life insurance job, she decided to follow her passion — animal rescue.
She went back to school to become a veterinarian’s assistant and she volunteered with the Gwinnett and Jackson County Humane Societies, before finally applying and receiving the Madison Oglethorpe Shelter position, which she took in late March. She said she has fostered 50 to 60 animals over the years.
Tracy Gilmore
Gilmore is new animal shelter director
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#1
lynn
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05/11/12 at 05:10 PM
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Good luck Tracy! It would be great to have a no kill shelter, but reducing the number that have to be euthanized is a start.
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Virginia Moss
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05/11/12 at 07:22 PM
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Ms. Gilmore sounds very qualified and dedicated. I like her priorities very much. Unfortunately, what is needed most is fundraising, not animal skills or heartfelt caring. Money, money, money; no substitute for it! If the citizens of this county would just go ahead and donate enough money, Ms. Gilmore could apply her excellent skills and dedication full-force to the rest of the shelter's needs. I wish her much success in this new position.