ALOHA!
We are the gals of G.A.L. Pet Rescue


Based out of Broward County and serving the Tri-County area, Get-A-Life Pet Rescue volunteers retrieve pets who have been abandoned and provide them with a chance at the life they deserve. Our animals come from a variety of sources, including Animal Services, owner surrenders and as strays.


Get-A- Life Pet Rescue volunteers, including our Board Members, play an active role in finding the animals a safe and happy home. All our pets are given a full veterinary exam. They are vaccinated, spayed/neutered, micro chipped, put on heartworm/flea & tick prevention medication as well as dental & grooming services as needed. Donations are very critical as they assist us in giving each pet full medical treatment, physical and behavioral rehabilitation and the necessities that allow them to thrive in their "forever home". Because Get-A-Life Pet Rescue doesn’t have a facility to house the pets as they are rescued, each pet is matched with an appropriate foster home in the Tri-County area. With individual fostering, we are able to provide interested applicants with details on the pet's personality and provide a needs list to allow the pet a tranquil transition.

Our volunteers promote responsible adoptions and lifelong relationships with the adopter’s new pet. We educate all adopters and provide them with all tools necessary to have a balanced and happy lifelong pet. Our ultimate goal at Get-A-Life Pet Rescue is to increase humane awareness through education, resulting in the humane treatment of animals, and reduction of the over population and abuse problems of today.


Heidi Hill has been active in the animal care communities since1986. Her volunteer efforts include fostering injured and sickly animals, andas an animal husbandry shelter volunteer. In 1997 Heidi became a veterinary technicianworking closely with veterinarians in Denver, Colorado, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York.  She worked with wildlife,exotic (remove s) and domestic animals. Her passion led her to take on the roleof Shelter Manager for the Humane Society of Greater Nashua, Nashua, NH. Believing inthis position, she madethe greatest impact in the animal world. While promoting education throughseminars and public appearances, Heidi started a foster care and pet therapyprogram benefiting the people of New Hampshire as well as the shelter animals waitingfor a home. Her work led to an increase ofdonations, adoptions and volunteer interest.


RuthMacniven was born in India and lived in Africa and nobody can live in Africa without falling in love with animals. Her home was alive with every kind of animal that had been hurt or injured andthen, if the animal could survive in the wild, it would be returned toit.  She worked with WSPA (World Society for Protection of Animals) in Mombasa and tried to make the last journeyof "meat on the hoof" as tolerable as possible.  Cattle shipsfrom Mombasa to Somalia are not animal friendlyso the idea was to make sure there was water for the animals during theirjourney and also to load without too much trauma.  It was always ahorrendous departure and a very sad one because in many years she saw little inthe conditions.  In America, she was honored towork with Allen Babcock Dog and Cat Rescue, Miami Rescue Rail Road and various rescues shehas been able to network with along the way. Touched by the pain of the animalsshe has been exposed to all her life, Ruth has the drive to devote her time andenergy to place dogs in loving homes that otherwise would have been euthanized.Ruth now resides in South Florida with her two rescued boxers.


Stacy Narcisse, (affectionately referred to as “Stacy Chi”)fellinto pet rescue when she took on a partially paralyzed Dachshund girl andfocused on the Doxies rehabilitation. When this little girl started to walk Chihuahua-ToyBreed Rescue & Retirement aided in placing this Doxie in her permanenthome. That adoption experience is what started Stacy’s passion for rescue andthe teenagers (at the time) who operated CTBRR enabled Stacy to become a FosterMom for multiple small dogs.  When CTBRR’s home base moved, Stacy perusedsmall dog rescue, rehabilitation as a Free Lance Foster Mom with variousrescues including Allen Babcock Cat & Dog Rescue. All along she has showncontinual devotion to the neglected Chihuahuas of South Florida as well as theadoption challenged Dachshunds with Florida Dachshund Rescue. With thisnetwork of rescue workers Stacy has found immense joy in being able to takepart in liberating pets. Her own two Doxies contribute their healing work withthe fosters as well. Stacy’s rescue journey has led her to unite with the likemindedness of Ruth and Heidi to create South Florida Pet Rescue &Rehabilitation Inc. /Get A Life Pet Rescue.