OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE

Operation Blankets of Love (OBOL) is the nation only award-winning, volunteer-driven nonprofit dedicated to ending animal homelessness by providing aid and comfort items to 1,000 homeless animals. OBOL’s constituency consists of stray, sick, neglected and abused animals and the shelters, rescues, fosters and wildlife and farm sanctuaries serving them. OBOL’s programs reach this constituency in 10 California Counties, particularly Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura. OBOL has also begun to transport comfort care items for animals out-of-state and internationally, including Canada and Mexico.

1) Comfort and Care Items for Homeless Animals: OBOL’s unique, signature program engages 70+ businesses as drop-off locations and mobilizes communities and volunteers to collect, transport and distribute recycled and new blankets, pet beds, towels, treats, toys, carriers and other comfort/care items to 35 shelters and hundreds of rescue groups, serving 12,000+ animals annually.

2) Emergency Response: OBOL is a 24/7 responder, providing donated blankets and items to keep shelter animals warm during cold snaps, provide relief to animals displaced or endangered by catastrophe and comfort animals rescued from hoarders or transported from overcrowded shelters to new homes across the county.

Working with the media and elected officials, OBOL takes action for shelter reform and the reporting of animal abuse and neglect.

Pets offer the homeless joy, a sense of family, and emotional comfort. We are one of the few organizations that assist struggling pet owners by helping their pets. OBOL is committed to the human-pet bond and the benefits that bond brings.

OBOL donates nutritious food, blankets, pet beds, leashes, collars, harnesses, toys, pet clothes and other critical supplies to keep pets of the homeless happy and healthy, thus allowing them to stay with their loving, human companions, rather than being relinquished to overpopulated shelters with high euthanasia rates.

No homeless person should have their pets taken away because they can’t afford the necessary supplies for their pets’ survival. No pets should go hungry, be uncomfortable or suffer. That is what OBOL is successfully working to alleviate, reaching out on a weekly basis to neighborhoods with high homelessness rates. We deliver quality pet food for dogs and cats to ensure they receive proper nutrition. The leashes and collars are safety items to ensure that pets can be safely contained in high-traffic areas.

The OBOL Animal Transport & Relocation Project provides comfort and care items such as blankets, towels, food, treats, leashes, collars, toys, carriers and more to rescue groups and animal shelters that save dogs and cats from euthanation. These groups transport them from overcrowded shelters to no-kill facilities and loving homes across America.

OBOL is proud to have provided items for rescue transports to many states and to international countries including Canada and Mexico. The animals are transported via vans, planes, and cars. Comfort items go a long way in putting the animals at ease during their journeys by providing warmth and a sense of security.

A current example of OBOL’s policy work is the "We Dream of Justice, Too" campaign. OBOL has flyers and posters for use by educators and humane organizations that emphasize the importance of reporting animal abuse and neglect. It also available in Spanish.

Our goals are to:

Raise awareness that animal abuse and neglect is a crime
Encourage people to report animal abuse and neglect
Make people think twice before harming an animal
OBOL raises public awareness about the plight of homeless animals at pet expos and adoption events. We make presentations to schools, youth, and civic groups and organize a collection of pet comfort and care item for shelters.

Informally, OBOL advocates on behalf of animal welfare every day, by mobilizing the compassion and creativity of a growing army of volunteers that includes hundreds of school children and parents, civic clubs, faith-based groups, senior living facilities, and businesses.

Hear the story of how one woman and her dog Ginger led to a unique organization called Operation Blankets of Love (OBOL) that helps shelter dogs and cats get adopted. OBOL can tailor the presentation to any age group and organization. Call 818-402-6586 to make arrangements.