CONTACT INFORMATION

For applications, go here. If you have questions about the adoption process or are having problems with the adoption application contact us at a-d-o-p-t-m-e @tribeagles.org; Remove the space and all the dashes before the @ to send an email.
If you have questions about how to adopt or foster, go here. If you have questions about fostering or are having problems with the foster application contact us at f-o-s-t-e-r-m-e @tribeagles.org; Remove the space and all the dashes before the @ to send an email.
To donate money, time or supplies to our rescue, please go here.
If you need to surrender a dog, please go here.
f you have questions about our auction, online store, or affiliates please contact us at h-e-l-p-m-e @tribeagles.org; Remove the space and all the dashes before the @ to send an email.
If you have questions not found in the above links, please contact us at i-n-f-o @tribeagles.org; Remove the space and all the dashes before the @ to send an email.

Please do not send email about dogs to individual board members. Please keep in mind that we are an all volunteer organization. We do not have a shelter and we operate from our individual homes.

BOARD MEMBERS OF TRIANGLE BEAGLE RESCUE

Lisa Mason
I was owned by a beagle for 16 years. He was truly my first child and I mourned his loss so deeply. In his memory, I decided to get involved with Beagle Rescue. Triangle Beagle Rescue of NC was just getting started when I contacted them about volunteering. Now eight years and countless foster beagles later, I am proud to be a member of the Board of Directors. Like any good Rescue Volunteer, I do a little bit of everything. I am currently the Intake Coordaintor for the group. I love to foster beagles and have raised many litters of rescued puppies and/or pregnant beagles. If you would like to know what it is like to be a foster family for a beagle-in-need, I would be happy to chat with you.

Mary Price

Lizz Lyon
Malorie O’Malley was truly my first child. Like many children, Mallie was an unexpected gift- a surprise birthday gift. Even now, I never recommend giving a dog as a surprise gift of any type, and I thought I was getting a kitten! Yet throughout our sixteen years together, Mallie was my constant source of “beagle joy” and antics. When we moved to NC, I came across TBR at a Durham PetSmart and was thrilled to find other beagle-focused people. It didn’t take long before my first task as a board member was assigned- obtain TBR’s non-profit status. I’m sure Mallie helped and we got it done. By early 2007, Mallie had become a noble and stoic Lady-of-the-Grounds (she finally had her own backyard), but her life with me was winding down. Around this time, I rejoined TBR to volunteer in her memory so that more beagles could experience the long, happy and pampered life that Mallie loved so much. I miss you, Girl! Please help us to find homeless beagles a second chance to obtain the love, care and lifelong commitment that they deserve in a new home.

Maria Ferguson
My love of beagles began with Faux Pas, who was with us for eighteen wonderful years. We waited over two years before adopting Carly with the help of Triangle Beagles. We didn't realize how empty our lives had been for those two years! We have watched Carly blossom from a scared, trembling beagle to one who greets me at the door with a wagging tail and a smile on her face.

Tomalei Vess

Dan and Tina Savarese

PAST BOARD MEMBERS

Susan Hogarth

Tara Mann

Amanda Matthews

Kim Kelly Sullivan

Bob Gaines

Patricia Tirrell

Michelle Lanzen

Kathy Wisniewski

Melissa Thornton
My love of beagles started several years ago when I went to a dog show with some friends and saw beagles up close and personal for the first time. I fell in love with their soulful houndy eyes, their majestic bark and their warm personalities. At that very moment I knew - one day I would be owned by a beagle. At the time I was still in college and not prepared to take care of another living creature, but I read everything I could get my hands on concerning beagles. I learned so much about beagles in those two years, but I was still woefully unprepared when Samuel Cody Thornton and I became a family. Thank goodness for my patient veterinarian!

Cody brings such joy to the life of my husband and I. I knew I needed to share our love and joy with those less fortunate than Cody and help find them homes where they can have the pampered life Cody has become accustomed to these days. I started volunteering at the SPCA as a companion volunteer, walking the dogs and feeding them. I joined Triangle Beagle Rescue because I wanted to focus my volunteer efforts on those soulful hounds that mesmerized me several years ago. Meet Daisy, a foster that I fell in love with and adopted, expanding my family to two glorious beagles. One is never enough!

Sydney Armstrong
Although I dearly love all canines and have had dogs all of my life, beagles became my breed of choice in 1976 when, after the death of my dog, a co-worker gave me my first one. I love their personality, their mannerisms and especially their ARROOOO. I just love to hear them “talk”. My current pack consists of three beagles and two mixed breeds. My last two beagles are Tribeagle beagles. (Can you say “failed foster Mom”!! :-) ) I met Susan Hogarth on a Beagle Internet Mailing List. Like her, I learned a lot about Rescue from the Internet and started by transporting dogs from Shelters to Rescues or new forever homes. When Susan started up Triangle Beagle Rescue right here in my backyard, I thought this would be a good way to help even more dogs, especially my favorite breed, beagles.. In addition to Tribeagles, I do some volunteering at the local SPCA, enjoy agility work with two of my dogs and do pet therapy at a local nursing home. Since I don’t have two legged kids, my dogs are my kids and have a very special place in my heart. I hope to continue to help many more deserving beagles find loving new homes though my work with Tribeagles.

Mike Walsnovich

Valerie Blettner
I got my first beagle, Punkin, as a puppy in 1988. When she died at the age of 6 in 1994 from a blood disorder, my husband, Lee, and I went to the Durham County Animal Shelter to 'replace' her with two dogs. We came home with three, Floyd, Rosebud and Wilma. Floyd and Rosebud are brother and sister beagles. Wilma is a pointer-mix. I wrote and illustrated their true rags-to-riches life in my first book, "Life Is Good Now as told by Floyd." Around the year 2000, while promoting my book to local shelters, I met Susan Hogarth, the founder of Triangle Beagle Rescue who was working at the Orange County Animal Shelter. She talked Lee and me into fostering beagles. I then wrote the book, "That Dog Won't Hunt!" a collection of 10 rescue stories from 10 different rescue groups. The cover dog, Bongo, is a dog we fostered with Triangle Beagle Rescue several years ago. He was owner surrendered to a shelter by a hunter 'cause he wouldn't hunt. Sadly, we get a lot of those kinds of dogs in the rescue. Lee and I LOVE being involved with Triangle Beagle Rescue. We love to see the transformations, both physically and socially, of the dogs we care for from the initial intake, to the final adoption. We've been tempted to keep some of them permanently, but when we let one go, we always get another fun one to love and nurture until they are ready to go to their permanent home. We also love the great group of people who make up this rescue!

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