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Impact Update: Q2 2024
During April-June 2024, the Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund made fresh grants to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), and Woodstock Farm Sanctuary in New York. Here are five Q2 2024 highlights of work the Greg Fund has supported: 1 – Eduxanima Romania received PETA’s 2024 Gregory J. Reiter…
Read MoreA decade with Caroline!
Today June 21 marks ten years to the day since I adopted Caroline in 2014. On that day, my late husband Greg and I, together, adopted Caroline and her older companion horse Henry together. Now my Greg, and Caroline’s Henry, are both gone. But Caroline and I still have each other — along with her…
Read MorePETA’s 9th Annual Greg Award to Eduxanima, Romania
Today on Greg’s 61st birthday, I am excited to share that PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has presented its 2024 9th annual Gregory J. Reiter Animal Rescue Award to Eduxanima in Romania. Romania has perhaps the largest homeless animal population in Europe — with an estimated 600,000 stray dogs living on streets or in woods, and likely…
Read MoreThank you, farmed animal sanctuaries!
Photo above: Chauncey at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, Poolesville, Maryland, November 2023 — a Royal Palm turkey, exact origin unknown, who was found Christmas Day 2020 on a Baltimore street. This U.S. Thanksgiving, I take a moment to express special gratitude to farm sanctuaries that are providing lifelong refuge for turkeys, chickens, pigs, cows, sheep,…
Read MoreEight Years On
My husband Gregory James Reiter died eight years ago today, October 16, 2015, after 24 years together – rolled over by his own car, in an apparent accident that authorities could not or would not explain. Greg had believed that everything happens for a reason – and for many years, I sought to reconcile his…
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