From her passion animals, she created a organization to rescue dogs and cats, and educate owners in East Point and the south Fulton County. She started the Georgia nonprofit in July 2013.
"The discarded pet population is off the charts in these areas," she said in an email.
Laskey’s Lucky Ones & Volunteers (LLOV) is an all-volunteer group in Georgia dedicated to pet rescue and community outreach. Our mission is to provide education, resources and services to existing pet owners within the community, and to rescue and place displaced, neglected and abused dogs and cats in permanent homes. We provide foster care, basic training and socialization, healthcare, spay/neuter services, resources, and education for our foster and adoptive parents, as well as for pet owners within our communities. LLOV serves animals of all breeds within the metro-Atlanta area, with a focus on underserved areas of South Fulton and adjacent counties. Our animals have been rescued from (or have been prevented from going to) high-kill shelters and live in foster homes awaiting their forever families. LLOV also facilitates and promotes reducing the number of feral cats and kittens throuh the humane practice of TNR (trap-neuter-return).
She outlined three of the nonprofit's goals:
- Prevent 75% of dogs found in our target areas from going and/or staying in animal control. The target area is around East Point area because, well, that’s where I and most of the board members and volunteers live.
- Develop a solid community outreach program that reduces the number of unaltered, unvaccinated, chained and/or uncared for dogs.
- Partner with Walker’s Room to create a program for homeless people who have dogs, currently working on a food, blanket and jackets program
"Believe it or not, homeless people are very good dog owners. They always share their food, they sleep with their pet, and care for them, often before they care for themselves. We want to help people become and stay responsible pet owners. Sometimes it’s just a matter of providing information and resources," she said.
To help out this community organization, LLOV has a wish list with Amazon. Click here. Or you can make a donation through PayPal. There's an active Facebook page, with close to 600 Likes. Check out the website too.
A few special events are scheduled for the spring,
- Dog wash in March at Intown Healthy Hound in Grant Park
- Wine tasting scheduled for April.
Said Laskey:
The way I see it, rescue isn’t limited to me picking up a dog, rehabilitating it and finding it a forever home, which is a great task in and of itself. Rescue is getting and keeping an owned dog off a chain; making sure an owned dog always has food for his belly, water and a warm place to sleep; it’s helping owned dogs stay healthy and happy. I didn’t choose to get into rescue. No one chooses rescue. It chooses you, and if you try to ignore it, it will know louder and you will never be happy until you throw open the door and embrace it for the change you can make.
