Pompano Teen Coordinates Small Animal Rescue
The moment a Pompano Beach student in high school learned about the suffering of 260 rabbits and guinea pigs, she decided to assist in their rescue.
Dylan Warfel, a senior from Pompano Beach, reportedly launched a major coordinated effort to rescue many of the animals and find them new homes. She has always been an animal lover, and had already been rescuing animals for several years.
It happened in the town of Alva, which is close to Fort Myers, across the state from Warfel. Horses and ducks were among the other animals there. Sadly, they were all neglected, living in filth, and many of them had horrible wounds.
Warfel, phoned organizations she had previously collaborated with and others who may be of assistance. She quickly found homes for the majority of the 260 guinea pigs and bunnies.
The animals were rescued by Warfel and Marquelle Hendryx, owners and founders of Broken Oak Animal Sanctuary in Alva. They organized them in the order they would be dropped off and classified them by gender before driving throughout Florida in a hired cargo van in search of institutions that would accept the rescues.
On their approximately 24-hour journey, they claimed to have made six stops along route from the west coast to central Florida to the east coast.
Warfel, who also removed 21 bunnies and guinea pigs from Alva in the hopes of finding them homes, stated, “We even ended up taking 40 to Missouri.”
