In 2018, Lexie’s Love was founded to help ease the cost of treatment for critical medical conditions of pets whose owners are experiencing financial hardship.

On March 1, 2016 Lexie was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia, an immune system disease in which the body attacks and destroys its own red blood cells.  This is a critical and often fatal disease. Over the course of of her treatment, Lexie was in and out of vets’ offices weekly, sometimes daily, and she kept a brave face everyday. A year and a half later, she was finally taken off all her medications and the prognosis was good.  And the bond that we had before her disease became even stronger.

Throughout treatment, we witnessed owners having to make heartbreaking decisions about medical care for their companion animals.  Knowing that they could not afford a procedure that could save their companion’s life, or ease their suffering, some left with their animal causing needless suffering.

We resolved to find a way to keep companion animals together with their families and live a heathy life. And so, Lexie’s Love was born. On October 4, 2018, Lexie’s Love was incorporated as a Missouri Nonprofit and the work began, and we haven’t looked back since.