Liz Delano is the Event Leader for DSR and also runs its Retail Operations. She is an Emergency Room nurse at St. Francis Hospital and has been there since 2007. Helping those in need has always been important to her, especially helping animals that cannot help themselves. She has yet to find a dog (or animal) that she does not fall in love with. In her spare time, Liz loves walking her pups on the trails by the Farmington river. She started volunteering in 2015 with her husband, Ted. They currently live with two dogs, one cat, and a salt water fish tank in Burlington. Liz is excited and honored to be a part of such a wonderful organization.

Wendy Dobrindt is the Fundraising Leader for DSR.   She started her work with DSR in March, 2016 and volunteers at most events.   She works as a Finance Director in the Insurance Industry.  She has two very spoiled cocker spaniels, Maddie and Roddy; who was intended to be a short term foster, but decided he never wanted to leave her home and became a forever family member on 12/29/16.

Dan McCabe is the rescue President and is a rescue jack of all trades master of a few.  He is dedicated to moving the organization forward along with the scores of other dedicated dog loving volunteers with the goal of saving as many homeless dogs as possible.  In his other full time job Dan is an Insurance Compliance Director.  Dan makes his home with Ellen 2 dogs, 2 cats and an occasional guest on its way to their forever home.

Ellen McCabe is the Intake Coordinator of Dog Star Rescue. Ellen is a 5th grade teacher and lives in Avon, CT with her husband Dan, dogs Carter and Redd, and cats Inky and Binky. She and her husband
helped start DSR after being involved in rescue work for several years. She has a lot of fun working along side great volunteers and feels the best part of rescue is seeing a dog meet their forever family for the first time.

Michael Park is Transport Coordinator, assigning volunteers for the pick-up of incoming dogs every Saturday from our southern colleagues and, along with his wife Jan Beatty, acting as Point Person at one of the pick-up sites, making sure all the paperwork is in order and that all the dogs are safely transported. He retired as a professor of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University after forty-one years there. He and Jan currently share their home with two Labrador retrievers and two cats.

Karen is our Foster Coordinator who also volunteers at almost all DSR Events and works with our Behavior/Training Team.  She started volunteering with DSR in 2014 when she retired after spending almost 40 years in the Insurance Industry in various Management and Consulting roles.  Karen currently has 3 rescue dogs and 1 rescue cat that are a part of her family. Karen’s greatest dream is to find a home for all the dogs we take in!

Jim is Dog Star Rescue’s Volunteer Coordinator in addition to being a screener and screening mentor.  He was Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing at the University of Connecticut, retiring in 2012.  He is a former volunteer Emergency Medical Technician and for ten years was a member of the Cranbury (NJ) First Aid Squad, serving as the organization’s president for two years.