She would hide small newspaper comics on the bottom of animals' cages overnight and check to make sure they were removed the next morning as a way to ensure the staff was properly cleaning the cages. She is accredited with being the primary reason the Humane Society of Missouri's clinic is one of the largest in the Midwest today. The facility now annually receives around 80,000 patients and performs 17,00 surgeries.[5] She became Chief of Staff in 1965 and used her power to continue to expand the facility and raise the standards.[3]