Animal lover Nancy
Grosfeld (left) poses with
some of her clan.
The birds enjoy a perch
and play area.
Her love of animals
extends throughout her
home. Animal weather-
vanes, ceramics and door-
stoppers (below) blend
into the traditional decor.
ancy Grosfeld's family expands con-
stantly. Currently, she and her hus-
band, Jim, occupy a Bloomfield
Hills home with three dogs, six cats
anZf three birds. As a past president of the
Michigan Humane Society (MHS), she is a veri-
table animal lover and animal advocate.
"There are so many unwanted animals that
already here, I want to encourage others to
opt pets," says Grosfeld, 52, and a MHS vol-
teer for 22 years.
She lives up to those words; many times she
tends to take stray animals to the shelter but
hey never make it out of the house."
osie, a 7-year old border collie mix, roamed the
streets before finding a home at the Grosfelds. Her
brother, Robert Babcock, found Isha, the black
Labrador mix in Ann Arbor. And then there's Brie,
a Samoyed mix, who loves to chase the cats.
Grosfeld believes mixed breed animals main-
ly are good tempered. With an older, adopted
dog the chewing and housebreaking stages are
eliminated, she adds.
Trixie, Julius, Daphney, Steuben, Princess
and Two Shoes make up the cat entourage.
Trixie and Julius are a brother and sister cat
team who once lived in a gas station in Detroit,
while Daphney was found inside a parking
structure near Hutzel Hospital in Detroit.
Grosfeld expounds upon the important work
of the MHS. There are three shelters in Detroit,
Westland and Auburn Hills, and they work with
50,000 animals per year. The MHS provides res-
cue divisions, education programs and animal
behavior training. She explains that there is a
sliding cost scale.
Grosfeld is active in the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit, Israel Bonds, JARC and
other organizations, but her "pet" charity is the
Michigan Humane Society.
Carla Schwartz
For information and volunteer opportunities at the
Michigan Humane Society, call (248) 852-7420.