Lana Meier was born in Palo Alto, California and moved to Los Angeles to attend Long Beach State University.
As a young child, her home was always filled with animals and she learned her compassion towards all animals from her parents. Her dad once brought home two baby ducks that he found walking down the street and that is where it began.
Lana has been involved in animal welfare for the past 20 years and works with several rescue organizations in Los Angeles. In 2014, Home Dog LA was created at the North Central Shelter as a non- profit shelter intervention program that helps keep pets with their owners. Lana serves as both the Secretary of the program as well as an Intervention Counselor.
Lana realized the need for Dogvocates through her own personal experiences with pets with cancer. She has had four dogs and one cat with varying types of cancer and found so many people reaching out to her for guidance. She realized that once people heard the word “cancer” with their pet, they felt lost not knowing what to do and who to turn to. With so many options for treatment, she found that friends that came to her were often so confused as to what they should do.
Through her dog Callie’s battle with anal gland adenocarcinoma, she met Spike, who was Callie’s chemo technician. When Lana’s dog Lila was subsequently diagnosed with cancer at a very young age, they realized the need for an animal advocacy group to guide and educate pet parents as they navigate through a cancer diagnosis.
