1 Love 4 Animals continues the work begun in 1997 by Bill Smith, the founder of Main Line Animal Rescue, a widely respected, trailblazing organization he ran with great success for over twenty years. After leaving MLAR in June of 2017, Mr. Smith and a dedicated group of like-minded individuals formed 1 Love 4 Animals in order to continue their mission of helping at-risk animals: dogs and cats pulled from high-kill shelters (often requiring emergency medical care), dogs and puppies rescued ... Read More
1 Love 4 Animals continues the work begun in 1997 by Bill Smith, the founder of Main Line Animal Rescue, a widely respected, trailblazing organization he ran with great success for over twenty years. After leaving MLAR in June of 2017, Mr. Smith and a dedicated group of like-minded individuals formed 1 Love 4 Animals in order to continue their mission of helping at-risk animals: dogs and cats pulled from high-kill shelters (often requiring emergency medical care), dogs and puppies rescued from puppy mills, animals devastated by natural disasters, or left homeless by personal tragedy or loss of habitat.
Mr. Smith's innovative advocacy campaigns have reached over half a billion people and have received numerous awards. Smith's appearances on Oprah and his undercover anti-puppy mill investigation with Lisa Ling were seen by more than 49M people around the world. We continue to raise awareness to the plight of abused and neglected animals to enact positive change and end animal cruelty. Our unique humane education programs bring people together to celebrate and improve the lives of animals in our communities and in other countries, and our volunteers are some of the most dedicated in the world of animal welfare. Our current efforts on behalf of animals are both unique and diverse.
Although our primary mission has always been to rescue animals from circumstances of neglect and abuse, provide them with necessary medical care, then place them in carefully-screened homes, we now provide free food to hundreds of pets already in homes, belonging to seniors, and families facing financial or personal difficulties throughout the Philadelphia Area. Our Animeals Program, a partnership with Eldernet, not only keeps dogs and cats with their families and out of shelters but provides seniors with the many benefits afforded those who love and share their lives with pets.
1 Love 4 Animals is also partnering with MissionK9 to bring military dogs back from Afghanistan and reunite them with their former combat partners/handlers now retired and living in the States.
In 2019, our volunteers drove over 225 dogs and cats in PA to new homes in Newport, RI and on Martha’s Vineyard. Thirty transports of 5 to 12 animals per car made their way up the NJ Turnpike, over the George Washington Bridge, through CT to the Cape. Dogs rescued from cramped, filthy cages in puppy mills, pets pulled from the “Urgent” lists of Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and East Harlem animal control facilities, and animals humanely trapped in salvage yards in Philadelphia and Camden, are now running on beaches with their new families on the Vineyard. This was in addition to the hundreds of animals we placed locally in PA, NJ, MD, DE and NYC.
1 Love’s leadership has a long and successful history of creating and implementing various therapy programs utilizing/promoting shelter animals. Braille Tails, our partnership with Bernadette Peters and the late Mary Tyler Moore, converted over 3000 books about animals into Braille and distributed them free of charge to schools and lending libraries for the blind across the country. At the suggestion of the United Nations and UNICEF, this program will be expanded to include “sister” schools for the visually impaired in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Haiti, and Uganda.
Since September 2017, 1 Love 4 Animals’ volunteers collected and delivered supplies to Barbuda, Antigua, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas in the wake of their respective hurricanes. We also sponsored airlifts of over 340 dogs and cats left devastated by these natural disasters, reuniting them with their families now living in the Continental US or finding them new homes along the East Coast.
A building on our property (117 acres in Chester County, PA) was a working veterinary hospital until 2013. 1 Love 4 Animals is in the process of refurbishing and reopening this hospital in order to provide not only veterinary care to the animals in our shelter but offer free or low cost spay/neuter services to seniors, veterans, and low-income families. Using local veterinarians, and through our longstanding partnership with Penn Vet, 1 Love 4 Animals continues to provide our animals with the highest quality veterinary care.
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