Rhys Miller currently serves as the Office Manager and Veterinary Technician at Vets to YOU!, an at-home veterinary practice. She has devoted over 17 years to the animal welfare/sheltering and veterinary industries in Sarasota.

Fairy Tail Endings, Inc. is a small, all-volunteer nonprofit in Sarasota, FL dedicated to keeping wanted pets in our community out of shelters and healthy, happy & home where they belong. We primarily fund critical veterinary care for low-income pet owners that can't afford care so that they do not have to surrender, euthanize or neglect their furry family member.

Rhys founded Fairy Tail Endings while working as the animal care and receiving manager of our local humane society in the height of the recession. She was met with daily pleas by tearful owners who truly did not want to surrender their pet but they had a medical condition they couldn't afford to treat. With our shelter on a waiting list she thought there must be some program out there that could help owners keep their pet rather than surrender, but at that time there was not any type of safety-net program in our area. In just under 7 years FTE has helped almost 800 pets receive critical veterinary care!

Rhys was just an ordinary person that saw a problem in a field she was passionate about and decided to do something about it. After leaving the HSSC, Rhys spent her free time volunteering as a veterinary technician for several nonprofits and continues to provide weekly enrichment to the dogs of Satchel's Last Resort Shelter and Sanctuary. Rhys believes strongly in collaborating with other animal welfare organizations, sharing ideas, expertise and resources whenever possible to save animals in need.

General topic: How pet retention/safety-net programs like Fairy Tail Endings serves pets, people and our overburdened shelter system.