Shrink the Mortgage for WAG Rescue

WAG Rescue (Wimberley Adoption Group & Rescue) is asking the community to help their nonprofit charity with sorely needed mortgage relief. WAG Rescue is dedicated to serving the Wimberley area by taking in lost or abandoned dogs and puppies - and caring for them until a forever home is found for them.

In August of 2016, WAG Rescue purchased a property to serve as a Refuge for housing the dogs and puppies. The refuge property was purchased with a mortgage and has served as a safe environment for more than 600 dogs and puppies that have been rescued and have stayed at the refuge.

“Before our purchase of the Refuge, the volume of rescued dogs had increased to such levels, that finding individual foster homes became challenging,” said Pat Davis, WAG Rescue’s Executive Director and Co-founder. “We always had a vision to acquire property in this area to establish a refuge for our rescued dogs.”

Finding a property that met all the required criteria for a refuge and that was in the local area was a difficult task, but after an extensive search, a property was located. It offered six acres and an existing house, meeting the basic requirements for a safe refuge. The house on the property provided the needed facilities for indoor boarding, a laundry area and an office for intake processing.

There is a common misconception that the refuge property was donated to WAG Rescue. This is not the case and WAG Rescue needed to secure a mortgage to purchase this property. This was only possible with a loan from a generous supporter.

“Making a mortgage payment each month can be daunting” says Barbara Foss, WAG Rescue’s President. “We are making headway, but it can be a real drain monthly when the money could be allocated elsewhere.”

WAG will be introducing a fundraising program entitled “Burn the Mortgage.” This fundraising program has the ultimate goal of retiring the mortgage and owning the Refuge debt free.

“With a remaining mortgage balance of $253,000, it may take a longer fundraising campaign to be able to finally ‘Burn the Mortgage,’” says Pat Davis. “We are hopeful with the support of the Wimberley community and our loyal base of individual and business donors that we can achieve mortgage relief that will lead to the final mortgage payoff.”

The Wimberley community have been strong supporters of WAG Rescue throughout the last ten years and will be learning more about WAG Rescue’s “Shrink the Mortgage” program. The introductory kick off will be held on October 20th, 2019 at WAGala, WAG Rescue’s annual fund raising event at the Cedars Ranch. This program may take some time to raise the required funds and with the help from their Wimberley supporters, shrinking the mortgage and eventually burning the mortgage for our rescue refuge can become a reality!