Animal Alliance of New Jersey

The Rescue Staff:

Anne Trinkle
Founder & President
Foster Guardian

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ANNE TRINKLE

Anne Trinkle, MBA is Founder and President of Animal Alliance of New Jersey. Upon graduating from Fairfield University in Connecticut in 1986 with a B.S. in Marketing, Anne began a 15 year stretch in the corporate environment, during which time she earned a Master’s Degree in Business at night at Fordham University in New York.

She held a variety of positions in Marketing, Sales, Technical Support, and Management in her professional career at the Diagnostics division of Abbott Laboratories. The focus of her early work was with the Departments of Pathology at several major New York City medical centers.

There she was part of a revolutionary industry wide collaboration that brought robotic automation to the hospital clinical laboratory, virtually eliminating the need for human handling of potentially infectious blood and body fluids in chemistry, hematology, virology, and endocrinology testing. The last 4 years of her career were spent managing a $20 million enterprise in the transfusion medicine and organ transplant market, where she and a team of scientists and engineers provided technical, sales, and scientific support to blood banks, plasma centers, and tissue/organ transplant programs in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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Checking on the newly rescued shelter dogs that fill the back of her truck.

After several years of volunteering part time for animal rescue and welfare groups, Anne retired from the business world in 2001 to devote herself full-time to animal rescue, and shortly thereafter founded Animal Alliance.

Animal Alliance was started due to the energies and efforts of a core group of volunteers, all of whom Anne considers to be co-founders: Heather Edwards, Diane Hutton, Janis Lepelis, and Nancy Remler. All are still with Animal Alliance and play very active roles in its operation and leadership.

Anne and her husband David live in New Jersey where they share their home with 6 treasured dogs, each adopted from different shelters: Mighty (Bucks County SPCA), Smokey Joe (Trenton Animal Control), Rudy & Gia (Women’s Humane Society), and Lana & Minnie (PACCA).

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Dr. Mae Sakharov, her companion Schuyler, and Anne.

They also host an ever changing lineup of foster dogs, and a colony of feral cats relocated from various TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) colonies. Anne’s number one passion in life is spay/neuter.

Presently, she is hard at work on creating a variety of low cost spay/neuter programs in her other pro-bono position as the President and Chair of The Alliance for Philadelphia’s Animals, a public-private partnership between the City of Philadelphia and a consortium of city shelters and rescue groups that are working collaboratively to create a “No-Kill” Philadelphia, where every adoptable animal is guaranteed a good home, and no animal will lose its life simply because there was no home for it.

Anne is a devoted yoga enthusiast and vegan, and says that becoming a vegan after years of being a vegetarian is the best move she ever made in her life, and the thing she is most proud of about herself.

Lana

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Lana loves to give me kisses, especially when I am driving.

"Lana, an 8 year old Chihuahua, weighed just 5 pounds and was half bald when she arrived at Philadelphia Animal Control as a stray 3 years ago. Still lactating from a litter of pups she recently had, Lana had a variety of physical maladies and terrible teeth. One dental cleaning and a lot of Burger King hamburgers later, and Lana is a sturdy 8 pounds.

" Lana has an exclusive travel arrangement with me, and she accompanies me daily in my car, to all my meetings and events, and everywhere I go. She is very demanding, does not like to be picked up by anyone but me, and she will screech a high pitched scream like a raven if she is upset about anything.

" Lana sits on my lap in the car and on days when I load a pile of new shelter dogs into our SUV, she runs around to each carrier, inspecting the new arrivals, no doubt remembering that is exactly how she arrived into my life. Lana is a spoiled girl, a diva, totally self-centered, and she loves the limelight.

As part of our job promoting pet adoption, Lana has been on TV, in the newspaper, and on the radio, and she loves every minute. At the end of a long day, Lana sits on my lap, leans up against me and licks my face with such an intensity that I know she is trying to comfort me. Lana loves to give me kisses, especially when I am driving. She climbs up, puts one paw on my necklace to hold her up and licks my chin and face with vigor. I love Lana!"

Gia

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"Gia bosses the boy dogs around mercilessly and is a total diva.".

"Gia, a 5 year old Maltese was dumped by her “family” at Women’s Humane Society after they repeatedly bred her for profit. An ungroomed, unkempt mess, Gia came to me on the one year anniversary of my beloved Maltese Dollie’s death, when I unexpectedly visited the shelter.

I was feeling so sad and missing Dollie so much and my other beloved dog, Honey Preciousm had just died. The volunteer who usually does that shelter pickup each week was sick. I dragged myself there, and saw a tiny little ball of matted white fur.

Gia wouldn’t look at me for she had lost her dignity being neglected for so long. I brought her to my beloved groomers Mary and John Rudder at Happy Tails Grooming Spa in Neshanic Station and they transformed her into a little doll baby who looked like spun sugar.

Gia bosses the boy dogs around mercilessly and is a total diva. She loves to be brushed and wear new hair bows and she demands to be the center of attention at all times. And we happily indulge her on all counts."

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"He is a true “mama’s boy” and sleeps right next to me at night."

Smokey Joe

"Smokey Joe, an 8 year old Brussels Griffon, was abandoned in Trenton — tied to a radiator in an apartment in which the family had been evicted. They moved out and left him chained up, with no food or water, lying in his own excrement.

Trenton Animal Control came and rescued him and estimated that he’d been without nourishment for several days. Smokey was matted to the skin and weighed a mere 9 pounds.

Today he is a portly 18 pounds and the happiest dog around. His favorite thing to do is get his bed, turn it around to face the wall, and chew a bone for hours on end while staring at the wall. He is a true “mama’s boy” and sleeps right next to me at night."

Mighty

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"We nicknamed him “Tiny Tim” after the frail waif in the Dickens holiday story.".

"Mighty, a 9 year old Maltese was a victim of domestic violence. Thrown down the stairs by an enraged man, Mighty’s leg was broken, and shortly thereafter, his grieving mother turned him into the Bucks County SPCA because she was afraid for his life.

"Mighty was waif-like when we got him 8 years ago. He was bone thin and dragged his bad leg behind him. We nicknamed him “Tiny Tim” after the frail waif in the Dickens holiday story and hoped someday he would grow big and strong and confident.

" Well, all our dreams for him came true. His leg was properly repaired, he put on five pounds, and is now the “Alpha” dog of the household. He and my husband are particularly connected to each other, which is beautiful because when he first came home, he was terribly frightened of Dave and hid from him for months.

Dave showed him that not all men are bad, and the mutual love they have for each other is so nice to see. To this day, Mighty is fearful of stairs, and will not walk up or down them."

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Dr. Mae Sakharov, Dana, a newly rescued shelter dog, and Anne

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