MUNCIE, Ind. — Stray animals are often forgotten and left to fend for themselves without help. A Muncie local decided to take matters into her own hands and help the strays around Muncie.
Lindsay Wright is the owner and president of Mango’s Miracles animal shelter. After working as a veterinarian technician, she noticed a huge lack of community assistance in shelters and foster programs, so she wanted to make things right.
Wright's goal was to bring some hope back into the lives of strays, giving them a second chance at life. With the help of foster programs and the community, the pets are given that very chance.
“What we can help with, we can’t do that all the time, but we try to do that as much as we can. So, I mean, we’re trying, like I said, a minimum of 150 animals every year in the Indiana community, we do our very best and are very diligent so that we put them in the best homes as possible to set them and the adopters up for success,” Wright said.
Wright also explains that they take in pets from more of a broader area than just the Muncie community. Mango’s Miracles takes in surrenders, strays, and fosters. They take in pets from around Henry County, Newcastle, Sulfur Springs, and Mount Summit. Wright would love to help out more, but due to being a small organization, they do as much as they can.
Mango’s Miracles often gets help from volunteers and the fostering community. One of the volunteers who helps us around the shelter, Molly Winns, fostered a dog and a cat from Mango’s Miracles after seeing them at a fair.
“It’s just really hard to say no, when you see these stories of these dogs and these cats and the environments that they’re living in, and the fact that people will dump them or just get rid of them, it’s really hard to turn them away, knowing I have the space in my house for them,” Winns said.
The shelter not only gives the pets a second chance at life, but it also gives them love, medical care, and the comfort they need until they can find their forever home. If you would like to help out Mango’s Miracles, you can visit their website: Mango’s Miracles.
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