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 along with Dick and Marilyn Faris 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 around the world and have received numerous awards. 1 Love 4 Animals continues to raise awareness to the plight of abused and neglected animals in an effort 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 your community and in other countries, and our volunteers are some of the most dedicated in the world of animal welfare.

Our primary mission has always been to rescue animals from neglectful and abusive circumstances, provide them with necessary medical care, then place them in loving homes. Since 1 Love’s inception in September 2017, we have made it possible for over one thousand dogs, cats, rabbits, and other animals to find new homes, while providing food for an additional 400 animals belonging to seniors, and families facing financial or personal difficulties throughout the Philadelphia Area.

In the past 18 months, our volunteers have driven over 200 dogs and cats to new homes on Martha’s Vineyard and Newport, RI. Thirty transports of 5 to 12 animals per car have 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 is in addition to the hundreds of animals we’ve placed and continue to place locally.

We believe the future of animal sheltering depends on the redistribution of homeless animals through a network of partnerships. For over 22 years, our leadership has pulled animals from states plagued with over-populations of unwanted pets and transported them to areas where willing adopters outnumber the surplus of available dogs and cats. We dream of the day our new shelter will serve as a temporary holding facility where half the dogs and cats we pull/rescue from overcrowded city shelters, puppy mills, areas affected by hurricanes, hoarding situations, and returning military dogs, can decompress and receive veterinary care before traveling on to our rescue partners and waiting homes in other states. The other half will be available to adopters in our local communities. This innovative new system will allow us to help more animals than ever before