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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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
Ten more dogs on their way to homes on Martha’s Vineyard! 1 Love volunteers work with AHAW’s Leslie Hurd and her partner, Lynne. Thank you Sugartown Vet, Ludwig’s Corner Vet, and Middletown Veterinary Hospital for helping 1 Love spay and neuter all the dogs before sending them off to their new homes on the Vineyard.
1 Love 4 Animals met with Lily Tomlin, acting icon and animal activist, in Boston last night. Lily holds 1 Love’s newest tee, “Puppy Mills: Yet another way men exploit the female body.” Most puppy millers are men profiting from deliberately and systematically impregnating hundreds of female dogs.
1 Love 4 Animals’ Nancy delivers eight dogs to our rescue partner on Martha’s Vineyard. Yesterday, these pups were in a rabbit hitch in a Lancaster County breeding kennel. Today, they’re on their way to loving, carefully screened homes on the Vineyard. Thanks, Nancy!
Twelve years ago, an incredible dog named "Amadeus" came into my rescue. Jodi heard about the dog and facilitated his transfer to MLAR from a shelter in Berks County. Amadeus was frightened and wary of men but there was something really extraordinary about him. I wanted him to like me so I took him into a fenced field, covered with snow, and let him off lead. After about 15 minutes of watching me from a far corner, Amadeus made a beeline to where I was sitting and unexpectedly jumped into my lap. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember the warmth of his body and the beating of his heart. For years I joked that after I died I wanted this photo to be on my coffin at my funeral. You can't see my weak jawline or my belly, but what you can see is how lucky I have been in my life to know the animals I've known, and the wonderful people I've met - like Liz and her ex-husband who adopted this amazing dog and gave him twelve years of unconditional love and his best life. Please don't ever think for one moment I don't remember every single dog, cat, horse and rabbit, I've placed in my twenty years of rescue. They have given me so much more than I could ever give them. Today, Liz has made the difficult decision to let Amadeus go. His body is giving out and it's time to say good-bye. Let's send Liz and her husband all our good thoughts today. And Amadeus, I still feel your beating heart. Always will. I'd like everyone reading this to hug your pets today, feel their hearts beat, and know it's for you.
Sophie Gamand has done more to change the public's perception of bully breeds than any other dog photographer working today. Walk through any municipal shelter and you will see row after row of unwanted and discarded Pit Bulls and Pit Mixes. Young dogs with sweet temperaments that have done nothing wrong. These are the dogs Sophie photographs and promotes and helps to find homes. She adds glamour and panache to hide the pain and desperation. Sophie uses her art to save lives. Volunteer at your local shelter. Take a Pit Bull for walk.
