Meet Our Staff!
Small Paws® Rescue Executive Director: Robin
Pressnall
Robin lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband of 20 years, Dale. Together they own an engineering company and have rescued dogs, ranging from St. Bernards to Bichons. Robin has been a secondary school music teacher, a Realtor, and she owned and operated a Bed and Breakfast before Co-founding Small Paws® Rescue in 1998.
E-mail Robin pup3@aol.com
SPR Secretary-Treasure Dale Pressnall
Dale is Robin's husband and an overall nice guy. He owns an Engineering company, Pressnall Technology, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dale designs incineration equipment to burn hazardous waste without harming our environment. Dale scans all of the donation checks, deposits them, and writes all of the foster reimbursement checks on the computer. He has also been known to take off after a fluff on a moments notice. Dale works and earns a living so that Robin is free to pursue her dream of not leaving one single Bichon behind.
Executive Assistant: Bonnie Ferguson
Bonnie lives outside of Bristow, Oklahoma with her husband and 4 rescued dogs, Fuzzy, Maggie, Lil Bit and Baby Bear. She and her husband have two small companies that keep them busy along with spending time with their dogs. Bonnie enjoys hosting the annual Oklahoma Bichon Picnic, and also keeps track of all of the SPR dogs, and volunteers, in addition to processing applications in the Midwestern U.S.
E-mail Bonnie bonnie@smallpawsrescue.org
Our Travel Secretary: Lynda DeHart
Lynda is in charge of making flight arrangements for all of the Small Paws® rescues. Lynda lives near Herndon, Va., and has a busy family! Her husband, Brian, works with Marriott Hotels. Her son, Blair, is a minor league baseball player with the San Diego Padres and her 17 year old daughter, Lindsay is a typical teenager into friends and shopping.
Lynda has two bichons, Rascal and Scooby that keep them hopping all the time picking up shredded tissues around the house.
Lynda came upon the Bichon Board on AOL and found Small Paws® and began asking if she could volunteer and now you know... the rest of the story!
E-mail Lynda BA DEHART@aol.com
Small Paws® Rescue Legal Counsel: Angela
Paulsen
Angela lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her
husband Wayne, and her two teen-age daughters,
Audra and Chelsea. They have 6 dogs, including
3 Bichons (Jolie, Chloe & Lilly), a Chow-Shepard
mix (Carly), a Dalmatian-Pointer Mix (Polly),
and a 3-legged Terrier Mix (Jac) - all house
dogs!! Four out of the six are rescue dogs.
Angela approached Robin at Pet Smart a couple
of years ago after overhearing Robin talking
in an authoritative manner about Bichons
and asked Robin if she was a Bichon breeder.
OOPS! (You can imagine her reaction!)
Brant Cramer: Special Projects Administrator
Brant lives in Leesburg, Florida with his
wife Edith, and Bichons Charlie, Duffy and
Havanese Poco. Duffy is a puppy mill rescue
and Poco is a Florida rescue. Brant is retired
from the automotive industry, but Edith still
produces acoustic music concerts each week.
They moved to the sunshine state from Michigan.
Brant assists our staff anywhere he is needed.
Small Paws® Rescue Inc. is 501-C3 Tax exempt charitable organization. All donations are tax deductable.
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