How Linens for Animals came to be...

Chris Brown - Director of Tennis Operations (left)
Josh Harris - Director of Mens Program (right)

Hope is Fuzzy and Yellow, it Turns Out

A few years back, as Lori was playing tennis one day at Gleneagles Country Club in Plano, she came across two of the staff members who were about to dispose of the unusable balls.

"Wait - can I have those?" she asked.

"Sure, but what for?" they asked.

"I'd like to give them to area dog shelters that I'm involved with - for them to use as toys for the animals and to give away with each adoption", she replied.

And that's the day that seed was planted that has now blossomed into Linens for Animals as we know it.

The pros at Gleneagles started saving their unusable balls and Lori started taking them to the shelters where, although grateful for the thoughtful gift, the rescue teams began educating her on what they REALLY needed more than anything - clean linens to comfort the animals in their care.

Now she was on a mission!

After six months of creative thinking, pounding the pavement and making the right connections, she was able to source and acquire linens on a weekly basis to share with all the rescues she'd met along the way and many more that would be coming as soon as the word got out.

So, you see, the Gleneagles Tennis Staff is really where Linens for Animals began - but it goes much deeper too...

The balls that they have donated have been spread to shelters in FOUR states and one of the shelters began using the balls in a unique and wonderful way: they would bounce the balls down the corridors of their shelter and the animals that were most reactive to the bouncing tennis balls were then recruited into working dogs programs such as police K9 units and drug-detecting dog teams!

And the circle is completed as the dogs who were rescued with the aid of these tennis balls are now serving the very community that supported their rescue by keeping the streets of that community safe and secure.

We call that a WIN - WIN!!

We are forever grateful to Gleaneagles Tennis Staff for the spark that set ablaze our mission to Provide Comfort to All Animals in Need and their ongoing support.

Thank you!

Linens for Animals

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