This issue’s Animal Advocate is Julia Bobbitt. She currently works as the manager at Dolittle’s Kiawah - a wonderful store for pets and their people with three locations around the Charleston area. She was kind enough to speak with us and allow us to tell you a little bit about her journey into animal welfare. Julia’s first foray into the world of animal rescue was in 2012 when she began volunteering at Pet Helpers on Folly Road. She eventually ended up working at the front desk and helping hundreds of people find their perfect companion. She also found HER perfect companions, Chowder, a 4 year old Sol Legare dog and Aurora, a 3 year old pit bull. Julia told us that her dogs are a daily reminder of why she got into animal rescue. “At the end of a long day, I know that when I get home, my two rescue pups will be there to greet me with a grin and lots of slobbery kisses. They make me lowcountry dog 32
JuliabyBobbitt Written Julie Murray
Manager at Dolittle’s Kiawah
laugh every day, even on days when I really don’t feel like smiling. They are my best friends.” There have been many other memorable rescues to cross her path and it was hard for her to pick just one to share with us. “This was the hardest of these questions for me to answer...but I decided to throw it back to my first ever long-term foster, Blossom. Blossom came to Eunoia Rescue from an upstate shelter. She was about 6 months old by the time she landed in my care and she was covered from head to paw in demodex mange...her skin was so terrible we
