Atlanta Lab Rescue

photo by Smitty

FIVE DOLLAR FRIDAY!!We need money…BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. I get it. You’re tired of hearing it. It’s like going to church and finding out it’s “Stewardship Sunday.” You came for an uplifting message to make you feel good, but instead it’s going to be about money and budgets…Bottom line is that “non-profit” is just that, which means that nothing happens without your help.The $5 Friday last week was nothing short of lackluster partly due to my screw up with not putting the correct “donate” link in the email, making it harder to figure out how to donate online. For those of you who figured it out and made a donation, a special thank you for taking up my slack! Your help enabled us to make a few payments that kept us current (enough) with three of our vets to bring in more dogs, which we did…13 of them (July 4th shelter holdouts).

I’ve been trying all week to come up with a message for this $5 Friday (the sequel) that would motivate and inspire you to want to take the time to go online or write a check and make a donation. A friend emailed me an article earlier in the week about the last day of a three-legged rescue dog named Duke, chronicled in pictures. There were pictures of him playing in a fountain, getting tummy rubs, eating a plate of hamburgers and finally lying peacefully “asleep” on a blanket. The pictures were heartwarming as well as heartbreaking. At the end of the article was a video of the day they rescued him from the shelter. As I watched the video, I realized how different this story about his life, especially how it ended, would have been had he not been rescued. The fact that 67% of all shelter dogs are black mixes, and yet he made it out and lived this wonderful life, makes his story even more amazing.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/this-story-of-a-dogs-last-day-on-earth-is-beautiful-and-hear

The concept of $5 Friday is reaching out to enough people, so no one has to pony up much money if everyone participates. We have 2000+ people in our database of adopters and volunteers and over 10,000 Facebook followers. Theory would have it that you all like labs (and lab mixes), you like ALR and you like what we do, so donating $5 (or more) to keep this ship afloat should be easy and make you feel good (I know it makes us feel good!). Please take a couple of minutes and click on the link at the bottom and show our pups some LOVE…

If you would like to get more bang for your buck, go to www.barkforart.org and buy a ticket for $35 to the 10th Anniversary Bark for Art EXTRAVAGANZA on August 23rd. There will be food and libations, music and dancing and a host of entertainers to amuse you. This will be the party that everyone talks about for the rest of the year and you and your friends don’t want to miss it.

To donate, please visit our website and click donate on the big red lab:

http://www.atlantalabrescue.com/