September 15 2015
Q&A: For Muttville's Sherri Franklin, rescuing dogs is a labor of love
Sherri Franklin sleeps each night with four dogs, give or take a mutt.
In fact, giving and taking mutts is what she does during her waking hours as founder and executive director of Muttville, a San Francisco-based senior dog rescue-and-foster shelter.
“She started taking in dogs at her home and by 2007 she had too many so she started Muttville,” said shelter board member Patty Stanton. “She started with 27 dogs adopted the first year; last year we rescued and adopted out over 800 seniors.”
Serving elderly dogs is Franklin’s passion and she’s inundated weekly with hundreds of emails, many of which say essentially the same thing: “Please save this dog or it will die.”
With a dozen full- and part-time employees and a $2.1-million budget, Franklin hopes to help 1,000 dogs this year. We spoke with her recently about her work. …
