Mission Statement
Saturday, August 15th, 2009LOLIN’s Mission Statement
Love of Lab’s (LOLIN, INC) mission is to reduce the euthanasia rate of Labrador Retrievers and LR 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 the 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 (some in the US, still actually SHOOT them with a gun). 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. No dog should have to die because we as humans have failed to provide for it simply by failing to spay it’s Mother! The dogs that come into LOLIN’s program, receive all medical needs, 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 being under-staffed. 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 like shelters do. We depend on you, the public, for help. We find FOREVER homes to ensure that our dogs will NEVER return to any shelter ever AGAIN! We have 484 (8/15/09) dogs adopted into wonderful forever homes! If you want to help LOLIN help the unwanted, unloved, abused &/or neglected Labs, please donate via check or money order to LOLIN, PO Box 237, Noblesville, IN 46061-0237. Thank you. There are so very many labs and lab mixes dying daily at Indiana’s shelters for space ONLY! We are desperate for FOSTERS, the most rewarding ‘job’ in dog rescue. If money is the only reason that you cannot foster, please contact us at lolin@comcast.net ASAP. WE ENCOURAGE you to speak with some of our current fosters ……we have a few volunteers that have fostered more than 30 dogs (and that is fostering Labs 1 at a time, never more than 2 in a foster home at once!) We do not ‘warehouse’ our dogs, all are in family environments!