On her way home from work, a vet tech from Alameda East Veterinary Hospital found a young Chocolate Lab in shock laying by the side of the road. She had been hit by a car. The vet tech got her to the hospital where she was stabilized in ICU and diagnosed with a hip dislocated in two places, a pelvis fractured in several places and multiple broken teeth. When her owner was finally located, he decided to sign her over to the hospital to be euthanized because he could not afford her care. A delay in his arrival at the hospital to sign relinquishment paperwork gave Lacey's guardian angel time to work a miracle.

Katie and Jeremy were visiting their Lab recovering from surgery, when they saw Lacey and fell in love with her gentle and sweet nature in spite of her traumatic, painful injuries. Our vet put them in touch with us and thanks to their very generous donation to sponsor her care, we were able to work with the expert doctors and staff at Alameda East to save Lacey.

Lacey was fostered by our own guardian angel in disguise as our "nurse on call", Carol, and her husband Kirk. They patiently and lovingly nurtured Lacey during her long recovery.  

While in their care, a chance meeting at a neighbor's introduced Lacey to her future adopters, Jerry and Dale, who wanted to adopt Lacey and give her the wonderful forever home she had been waiting for and so very much deserved.  

Lacey is now at home with Jerry and Dale, fully recovered and enjoying the good life of a Lab. She even has her very own swimming pool and a couple videos on YouTube. Click here to see the video of Lacey.

Your donations make a world of difference to Labs like Lacey. 

As a Safe Harbor supporter, we would like to encourage you to invite your employer to partner with us in our efforts to rescue the Labs by joining us as a sponsor of LabFest 2011.

We plan to rescue about 300 Labs this year. To raise funds for their medical expenses, our single greatest expense, we will have our largest fundraiser of the year, LabFest 2011, on Saturday, September 10th at City Bark in Denver. Last year there were more than 200 attendees and over 100 happy dogs.

Sponsors will enjoy publicity at this tremendously fun and much anticipated annual event for Lab lovers. All sponsors will be recognized in the promotional materials at LabFest 2011. Sponsors of $250.00 or greater will also be recognized on our website that receives over 15,000 visits per month.

To make LabFest another successful fundraiser, the Labs would love your help in asking your employer to sponsor the event to help them. Please do invite your employer to join us too!

For more information, please contact Lucy, our Treasurer, at donate@safeharborlabrescue.org.