Metroeast Lab Rescue

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Metro East Lab Rescue was started by Cindy Kuschel. Cindy’s interest in rescuing Labrador Retrievers started in 1986 when she was helping to develop the Highland Animal Shelter. Soon after the shelter opened, a three month old yellow lab puppy was brought to the shelter as a stray. The owners were located, but did not want him back! “Gus” was getting picked on by the other puppies at the shelter, so she brought him home “for the weekend”… Cindy enjoyed Gus for 15 years! Soon after adopting Gus, Cindy realized she wanted to help more labs in need. Twenty-eight years later, Cindy’s passion is still helping as many labs for which she has the time and finances. Cindy feels it is an unspeakable tragedy that we, as a society, put to death millions of healthy adoptable pets. In 2015 Madison County Animal Control euthanized 329 dogs/pups and 999 cats/kittens. Metro East Lab Rescue focuses on Labs because we feel we can do a better job if we focus on helping one breed. However, because we love all dogs and cats, we almost always have several non-labs and several cats that need good homes. It is heartbreaking to turn down a homeless dog or cat, but time and finances force us to be realistic. Therefore, we try to limit ourselves to ten to fifteen homeless dogs and two or three homeless cats at a time. Even then, we are always over my limit! Sadly, we still easily turn away five dogs/cats a week.

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