2021 ANIMAL STORIES MAGAZINE

2021 PET MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS JANUARY 21, 2021 Page 7 doable and most effective at saving pet lives. Cherie has since moved out of the area and helps animals where she lives now. Connections What makes LCAR effective and valuable are the connections it provides between Animal Control, the local public, and no-kill shelters. Cale coordinates the local work between Animal Control Warden Jane Whiteman and LCAR volunteers Lisa Conley, who keeps up their Facebook page; Roxanne Rude, who helps with pictures, and her dad Guy Overbey is by her side on transport runs. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself” - Josh Billings, Comedian Cale recalls her first rescue experience. She loaded four large dogs in crates and drove them in her own truck at her own expense to a Schaumburg shelter (west of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport). That’s a long haul. But she remembers the feeling of giving these dogs a second chance, “It was a good feeling driving home.” Future trips to Chicagoland, where most shelters are located, involved multiple stops and took up to 12 exhausting hours. The benefit of these early trips was that she saw for herself that the shelters were good, well-run places and safe for the animals. “Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.” – Alfred A. Montapert” Today there is a collaborative transportation system. Cale now takes cats and dogs to a hub in Champaign where each animal is reloaded to vans going to specific shelters with Continue p