It’s National Small Dog Rescue Week and every day for the next seven days 1 Love 4 Animals will feature a spectacular small dog in need of a home. First up: Greer is a five year-old Westie-poo who came to our rescue from Brooklyn Animal Control. Sweet as they come and hypo-allergenic. Please fill out an adoption application if you are interested. Available to qualified families.
1 Love 4 Animals' Dogs Playing in this Year's Dog Bowl on Animal Planet
Three of 1 Love 4 Animals' dogs were asked to be part of this year's Dog Bowl. Bella the Great Dane (came to our rescue with a crushed leg from our rescue partner in Miami, now living large in CT), Reggie (drafted from Animal Control in East Harlem), and Gizmo (once on the "Urgent" list in an overcrowded Big City Shelter, now scoring touchdowns in his home in Bryn Mawr). See our dogs and dozens of other rescue dogs on Animal Planet's Dog Bowl (Sat. Feb.2nd @ 8:00 pm and again on Super Bowl Sunday, check your local listings). Dog Bowl was celebrated animal advocate Jill Rappaport's answer to Animal Planet's wildly popular Puppy Bowl. Hope to see you at the game!
Lucky Pups
Born of a mother living on the streets of Philadelphia, Maisey and Leo quickly found homes through our wildly successful adoption program.
MLK Community Service Day at Radnor Middle School
1 Love’s Karen D. attends Martin Luther King community service day at Radnor Middle School. Students collected and bagged an SUV load of dog and cat food for our AniMeals program, which feeds pets belonging to seniors who are struggling to make ends meet. Thank you RMS!!!
1 Love 4 Deb
In 2002, a very special woman recovering from breast cancer showed up one day and began volunteering. In the years since, Deb has adopted and fostered and trained and bathed and walked and laughed and cried over more dogs than we can remember. She recently opened her home and heart to this little senior poodle pulled from the urgent list of Brooklyn’s Animal Control. We have a few fosters who consistently step up and give an elderly dog or cat a comfortable retirement. God bless them.
1 Love 4 Animals' Senior Selects Program
Holly leaves AC&C in East Harlem. A Westie mix, this feisty twelve year old needs a failed foster home and the chance to spend the remainder of her days in quiet reflection. The old and the very young need more help than most. Become a foster for 1 Love’s Senior Selects.
Intrepid Sailors
1 Love 4 Animals’ dogs on the ferry destined for homes on Martha’s Vineyard. Nine dogs made the trip from Delaware and PA today. A long journey but well worth the trip with loving families waiting for these intrepid sailors.
0ur Baby New Years are ready to face 2019!
The puppies pictured here were born five days after their mother was transferred to 1 Love 4 Animals from ACCT. The dog we named "Mary" was found living on the streets by a Good Samaritan and brought to Philadelphia's Animal Control. Imagine our surprise when we discovered Mary (probably between 10-12 years of age) was pregnant. Despite the obvious concerns (How old will Mary be when they graduate high school? Will she be able to afford daycare on social security?) our volunteers celebrated the birth(s) as a Christmas Miracle!
Miracles happen all the time at 1 Love 4 Animals, because our adopters, volunteers, and donors make the impossible possible every day. We want to thank everyone for helping 1 Love achieve so much on behalf of at-risk animals in 2018. If you'd like to support our Animeals Program, bring a military dog back from Afghanistan, contribute to our veterinary expenses (for Mary and the kids), your donation will not only be greatly appreciated but tax-deductible.
Have a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous 2019
from your friends at 1 Love 4 Animals.
From East Harlem With Love
1 Love 4 Animals has just loaded our Subaru with dogs and one cat from East Harlem Animal Control. 1 Love’s Dick, Marilyn and Bill agreed to pull ten animals from this overcrowded big city shelter on Christmas Day. If you live in NYC we urge you to check out the pets waiting for homes at AC&C.
Thank you AC&C staff for giving us ten amazing presents this year!!
1 Love 4 Animals Helps an Elf
Elf is a 3 lbs. Chihuahua who left Penn Vet this week with a clean bill of health and chance to see the next 15 New Years. 1 Love pulled Elf from the "Urgent" list of a Big City animal control facility. A life-threatening infection caused Elf to rapidly lose weight. Dehydrated, malnourished, incoherent, muscle spasms, Elf made an odds-defying recovery thanks to the doctors, nurses, and staff of Matthew J. Ryan.
It was a Christmas Miracle. Now we need another miracle: Help covering his medical expenses. Penn provides us generous discounts but Elf's progress was charted in daily charges/expenses and 1 Love needs to raise the funds to pay the balance.
Please make a donation to 1 Love 4 Animals this Christmas and help an Elf.