About Us

My name is Brenda Gordon and I started rescuing and placing farm animals in 1980. I took in horses of every breed and age. Most of the horses I rescued were starving 4 to 6 month old Mustang foals. They had been rounded up and taken to the auction to be sold. I paid for them because I felt they needed a chance to get a home not just be slaughtered.

My friend Dianne and I were able to halter, deworm, brush and find homes for every one of them. They put on weight fast after they were dewormed. The property was rezoned by the city and I was forced to move the animals. I moved the rescue to the JMP ranch in Milpitas, CA. The ranch was over a thousand acres and was still a working ranch. The size allowed me to expand my rescue efforts to the point I was the default rescue for all farm animals that the Santa Clara County Animal Shelter took in. I took in almost every type of farm animal you could think of.

Every animal got a new home with people who came from near and far. Some of the rescued animals even went to an orphanage to help kids learn how to properly take care of animals. I worked a full time job to support the rescue and I would spend 2 to 4 hours every night cleaning and feeding them. I took in occasional dogs and cats and found them new homes too.

In 1999, I remarried and we moved to Utah on 2002. Here in this area there wasn’t the huge need for farm animal rescue. So we started including dogs and cats that needed rescue. In December 2007 I heard the news about 13 puppies that had been dumped in a business’s dumpster in Riverdale Utah. Only one of the 5 week old healer mix puppies survived. The owner had wrapped 13 puppies in a sheet, then in a large plastic bag & tied it shut leaving them overnight to freeze to death. The next day they were thrown into the stores dumpster where they were found by an employee taking out the trash. I was so angry I cried. How could anyone do that? I told my husband Rick about the story I had heard on the news. He was just as angry as I was. He told me to quit my job and go start the animal rescue thrift store that I always wanted to open so I could help more animals.

In April 2008, we changed the name of our rescue and opened the Pack `n Pounce Animal Rescue Thrift Store to the public. In the old days, you had to know someone who knew that my rescue existed to find a phone number or address to contact us at. Now it’s on our cards, windows, internet and is out there for everyone to call. We always have information about the Big Fix dates and other low cost spaying and neutering.