How Did Dolorosa Margulis Treat Animals

“Treating animals with a lot of respect, this is the key”. Dolorosa Margulis has devoted her life to caring for badly treated animals. Before she came to America 34 years ago, Margulis lived in the Netherlands. Growing up she spent most of her time with her animals, she often says that her dogs were her favorite. She carried on that love for the well being of animals all the way to Oregon. After settling into her new american lifestyle, Dolorosa was looking for charity to take part in, to support animal care. At the time the Oregon Humane society was a small non-profit organization, that needed major improvements. As is, the facility was small, cramped, and dirty. The staff used gas compression to euthanize the animals, to make more space for

This was one of the biggest life changing experiences during her time working for the shelters in Portland. This was the moment that set her off to start expanding and helping more local shelters. This was all a plan to create a better living situation for all of the animals that were struggling. Once she funded the building of the shelter, animals started to gain respect from the people living in Portland because the animals had a facility that was clean and well managed. People started to see animals as their equals. Margulis was in awe at the progress of the humane society once the new building was built. Many families started to adopt the animals and she reminisced that, “treating animals with a lot of respect, this is the key to all this hard work”. All of her hard work had finally, after years of effort, payed off.

Margulis recalls “I love saving badly treated little beings, that’s the best thing I could hope for”. She believes that although humans are important, not enough respect and care is paid towards animals and helping them is one of the best things she could do for the community. Creating a better environment for the animals was really beneficial to, “create the kind of society that makes people care about the animals”. She hopes that the humane society will continue to house animals,

She hopes that the Oregon Humane Society will expand, and that she’ll have the chance to rescue more animals. Dolorosa wants to ensure that more laws will be passed to protect animals, and to protect the environment. Lastly, she hopes that the humane society will continue to educate the people living in Portland that the animals are equal to