WRITTEN BY: A LY S S A H E L M S , Social Media Manager
I am sure we have all thought about how much time, effort, and money is required and needed to run an animal rescue, keep it running, and make it successful. Hali Selert is the new president of Eunoia Rescue and is dedicated to saving animals’ lives by pulling them from local shelters, finding suitable foster homes, and placing them in their forever homes. Hali was the very first foster for Eunoia Rescue. She slowly took on more and more responsibility over the years and adopted her pittie, Winnie, from Eunoia in 2016. Rescue work is not always easy. Lowcountry Dog Magazine has been involved with Eunoia from the very start in a number of ways. We partner with Eunoia through countless adoption events, fostering dozens of dogs, helping with transportation, donating and raising money, promoting and more…Lowcountry Dog is proud to know this relationship has resulted in quite a few happy tails and that rewarding feeling is what rescue is all about. Almost everyone at Lowcountry Dog past and present has either fostered, volunteered, or adopted from Eunoia Rescue. Alicia Williams, a friend and former writer for the magazine, founded Eunoia Rescue back in September of 2015. In the spring of 2021, Alicia stepped down from this massively responsible job and passed the torch to Hali. Hali juggles countless daily tasks for the rescue– she manages the rescue’s social media and website, oversees intakes, handles adoptions, coordinates medical appointments, and so many other things. Hali and many others in rescue
Hali Selert, President of Eunoia Rescue
organizations also have day jobs. When she’s not working as a criminal defense attorney or juggling rescue tasks, she’s spending time with her two pups, Winnie and Ripley, and her fiance, Tal. Running a rescue means dealing with the non-stop duties the rescue may demand and always being on-call. If Hali - or anyone on the planet - had to do this all alone it would be impossible. She couldn’t do it without Vice President Nicki Shriver and Foster Coordinator Avery Ivey, who help handle the dayto-day operations of Eunoia. Also along for the ride is Rachel Ballenger who manages supplies and donations; Leslie Rider, who is the medical guru of the bunch; Hollie Xu, who keeps track of registering microchips; Lenzee Newman; who coordinates getting the photos and biographies for available animals together; Mackenzie Ivey, who is the rescue’s photographer; and many, many more people who step up to make sure Eunoia is running as efficiently as possible! Not to mention the countless foster families who house Eunoia’s animals; puppies, seniors, recovering medical cases, and hospice dogs – they take in as many as they can fit, actively care for, and love. Eunoia is a foster-based rescue organization and got its name from the definition behind it. Eunoia is a Greek word that means “beautiful thinking” and was used by Aristotle to refer to an indefinable feeling of goodwill and kindness that emanates from certain
