SUCKED IN

Erstwhile Richardson ISD teacher Janeye Pritchard was on summer break when the irresistible request from a neighborhood animal advocate popped up on her Facebook timeline.

“They needed help bottle feeding a puppy,” she says. “This little hand-sized baby needed to be fed every two hours, like clockwork. It was so cool.”

After watching that first pup grow to a hundred healthy pounds of dog, there was no turning back.

“I went to an adoption event, met people and knew this was something I’d like to do more.”

Soon she sheltered a whole litter of abandoned puppies. Her roommate Ashley Bradford fell in love with and adopted one, she notes, a bull terrier — “like the Target dog, you know?”

Both women now are hooked on helping animals — serving on the DogRRR board, fostering and striving to find happy homes for as many animals as possible