OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Love of Lab's (LOLIN, INC) mission is to reduce the euthanasia rate of Labrador Retrievers and Labrador mixes throughout animal shelters/animal controls of the Midwest (ESPECIALLY INDIANA). LOLIN will accomplish this goal by increasing the public's knowledge regarding the care, the adoption, and responsible ownership of these wonderful dogs.

LOLIN volunteers have united to donate their love, time, energy and financial resources to save as many dogs as possible before they are killed at these shelters by gas, heartstick or lethal injection. Society in general is not providing these shelter dogs with basic life supporting measures, such as necessary food, water, and shelter; let alone the needed medical attention, the very necessary sterilization, or the LOVE & compassion all dogs need to thrive.

The dogs that come into LOLIN's program receive all appropriate medical care, including preventive care, are temperament tested, and sterilized immediately! We also provide these dogs with a loving foster home that helps to rehabilitate them while we locate a WONDERFUL forever home.

Labs CRAVE human companionship, more than food and water sometimes. It is cruel to deprive them of human contact, as they are denied at shelters, simply due to lack of funds and staff. LOLIN knows that our dogs will be an exceptional addition to all that desire a wonderful life-long canine companion.

LOLIN, INC. is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3, IRS deemed Public Charity and your donations are tax deductible to the full extent provided by the IRS. Love of Lab's receive our operational funds through adoption fees, donations, and various fundraisers ONLY, we do not receive any county, state, or federal funding EVER. We depend on you, the public, for help.

All of our wonderful volunteers have helped us make more than 590 adoptions possible! We are on pace to make 2010 a record setting year!

Levi

LOLIN first heard about Levi's injury and need for rescue through an urgent request sent to many rescues. He was at an animal control facility in Georgia. Levi had been hit by a car and had badly injured his leg. The vet believed there was neurological damage to the leg and that it would need to be amputated. There was no way this small shelter could provide this kind of vet care. Without rescue Levi would have been euthanized. LOLIN agreed that we could get him to Indianapolis and evaluate and treat his injury.

Levi arrived in Indianapolis via Cessna 172, flown by Roger D. He is a volunteer with Pilots N Paws, an organization that arranges air transports by private pilots. Joanne C, a wonderful volunteer in Georgia, picked Levi up at the shelter, took him to her vet, and then got him to the Cobb County airport. LOLIN board members Jean and Deanna were waiting at the Greenwood municipal airport to meet Levi and take him to the vet.

At the Paw Patch Animal Clinic on the westside Dr. Schroeder examined his leg and thinks that it may be possible to save it. We're holding out hope that he will not need an amputation. Levi also has severe yeast infections in both ears. That gives him pain when you touch on of his ears, but it is easily treated. He has some scrapes and this poor baby bit a chunk out of his tongue when he was hit, but despite all of this Levi is a calm, gentle good-natured dog. Through all of the stress of the injury, a plane flight, and his vet exam his tail kept wagging. In a week we will have a better idea of whether we can save this boy's leg. Please consider donating to help us defray the costs of Levi's vet care. And a big thanks to Deanna-- board member, adoption coordinator extraordinaire, AND Levi's foster mom!

THE ONLY WAY TO INTRODUCE DOGS

I looked at the caged animals in the shelter...the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and betrayal. And I was angry.

"God," I said, "This is terrible! Why don't You do something?"

God was silent for a moment and then He spoke softly. "I have done something," he replied, "I created you." Jim Willis

SPECIAL NEEDS DOGS

Love of Labs is very proud to be able to help Special Needs/Heartworm positive dogs with your help....after all, isn't that what "Rescue" means anyway? Of course we have lots of other dogs, too, if you are not the "Special Needs" dog kind of person.

Georgia
Is ready for her forever home!

Georgia is one special young black lab. She was found as a stray and near death's door. Love of Labs got an urgent message from the shelter and we immediately went to pick her up and get her vet care. She is a large dog and only weighs 43lbs. She is around 1 1/2 years old. She is extremely emaciated but she is a sweet and loving girl who deserves to get better and find a loving home where she will never have to worry about finding food. She is a great girl and is busy gaining weight in her foster home.

SPONSORING A WONDERFUL LAB

If you would like to help some of these wonderful Labbies, but cannot adopt or foster at this time, please consider sponsoring one of our dogs. You can still make a difference in a Lab's life! Sponsoring allows us to pull more Special Needs and heartworm positive dogs. Treatment for heartworm is very expensive to treat because it also includes X-rays and blood work before the actual treatments begin.

Sponsoring is a wonderful project for a single person, an entire family, or a work or school group that wants to 'give back' some of their good fortune and happiness to home less Labs! Remember, we are a 501(c)3 and your donation is tax deductible!

We are making a difference one Lab at a time (and you can, too)!

SPONSOR A LAB OR

Why does LOLIN charge an adoption fee?

• Our adoption fee includes the charge that the shelters charge us to physically pull a dog from their facility. Even if the shelter was going to euthanize the dog, many of them want to recoup the costs that have put into vaccines or heartworm testing. These fees can range from $25-85.
• If the dogs have not been vaccinated at the shelter, we provide distemper and bordatella vaccines.
• Shelters never give rabies vaccines, so all our rescue dogs have to be taken to the vet for a rabies vaccine.
• All our rescued Labs are spayed or neutered as soon as we get them.
• We pay for a Heartworm test for every dog we bring into rescue.
• If our dogs test positive for Heartworms, we must pay for Heartworm treatment ASAP. We also have to pay for chest X-rays and a complete blood panel to see how sick the dog really is. Heartworm treatment is very expensive, averaging around $500 per dog.
• LOLIN provides the Heartworm negative dogs with Interceptor, a monthly Heartworm preventive medication. This medication is given to our fosters dogs every month they are in our care. As we usually have more than 20 dogs in foster care at any given time, that adds up!
• Most dogs we pull from shelters require at least one month of flea prevention. In the summer months many of our fosters receive monthly flea prevention.
• All the dogs are wormed either at the shelter or after we get them into foster care. Dogs with tapeworms (which are very common) are wormed with Drontal at the cost of $22 per pill (most Labs require at least 2).
• Although we give all our dogs with bordatella (kennel cough) vaccines it is only effective with certain types of kennel cough. There are many more types of kennel cough that are not covered at all with any bordatella vaccine. Dogs coming from a shelter environment are very vulnerable to this disease and often come into foster care needing antibiotics to recover.
• Many dogs that come from shelters have diarrhea. We take their fecal samples into the vet's office for a fecal exam to detect parasites or diseases such as coccidia, Giardia, etc. If any of these diseases are detected we purchase the appropriate medications.
• Naturally, we also have emergencies. Dogs in our care can become sick unexpectedly and require emergency or extended vet care. We have dealt with pneumonia, pancreatitis, congestive heart failure, distemper, and many other illnesses in our foster dogs.

As you can see, costs can add up on many of our dogs to be well over the adoption fees we charge. All adoptions fees LOLIN collects are turned directly back into our operating funds to cover medical bills for other labs in rescue. It is our hope that we never have to turn away a dog with treatable medical issues simply because we do not have the funds to treat it.

WE RECEIVE NO Federal, State, County and/or City FUNDING EVER!

Of course we know you won't have the LOLIN collar, but if you should have any other dog items that you are not using and want to donate to us, please contact us ASAP!

If not you, who?

If not now, when?

Jean Mynderse ~ President (president@lolin.org)
Deanna B. ~ Vice President (vicepresident@lolin.org)
Maureen Hoffman-Wehmeier ~ Secretary (secretary@lolin.org)

Coordinators
Leslie B. & Donna B. ~ Foster Coordinators (foster@lolin.org)
Deanna B. ~ Adoption Coordinator (adoptions@lolin.org)
Cara L. ~ Volunteer Coordinator (volunteer@lolin.org)
Kathy H. & Mandy G. ~ Intake Coordinators (intake@lolin.org)
Karen F. ~ Telephone Interview Coordinator
Lola E. & Maureen ~ Fundraising/Events Coordinators
John V. ~ Programmer/ Web Developer
Doug F. ~ Asst. Foster Coordinator
Ashley T. ~ Home Visit Coordinator
Jill M. ~ Vaccine Coordinator
Terry R. ~ Owner Surrender Coordinator
Autumn C. ~ Petfinder/Adopt a Pet Administrator
Karen S. ~ Southern Indiana Coordinator
Linda Sebring Acup ~ Founder