How often do you see a stray dog or cat along the streets? When was the last time you visited a animal shelter? That is where those strays, when found, call home, sometimes until they are adopted, and others, well are not always that lucky. It can be hard visiting an animal shelter, especially those that euthanize animals if a home is not secured in a certain amount of time. You can feel helpless, but you are not. Even though you may not be able to adopt every animal that enters into the shelters door, you can make a difference.
The best thing you can offer your local animal shelter is your time. You can volunteer to play with the cats or dogs, walk the dogs so they get exercise and time out of their kennel, send out invites for fundraisers, help clean, and help raise awareness. It is a great activity to get your children involved with. It teaches them the importance of proper care of pets and the responsibilities that go with them.
If you do not have enough time to volunteer in person, you can always help spread the needs of your local animal shelter. If you have a website, blog, or are on any social media network, you can encourage people to lend a helping hand either financially or in person through volunteering. If you have a business, you can always help by posting bulletins for public view of your support encouraging others to support as well.
Another effective way of helping helpless dogs and cats if by contacting your local officials to campaign for shelters and animal rights.
If you cannot donate your time, donate items such as old blankets and towels. The shelters are always in need of these items. Even old tennis balls can be useful giving a kenneled dog a chance to get out, run, and play. Check with your local shelter on what items they accept for donations. Some even accept pet food donations. Money is always welcomes.
Another thing your entire family can get involved with that will help your local animal shelter is to organize fundraisers. It can be something as a simple cupcake sale that you do where the proceeds are distributed to the animal shelter. There is nothing better other than providing an abandoned animal a home, and then there is in supporting the home that cares for them until they can have a home of their own.
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My niece does volunteer work for our local APL. She has sheltered a few smaller animals at her home and spends time every weekend taking some of the animals for walks and playing with them. I imagine they are glad to be out of the pens. That's no life for a any animal. She has invited me to join her before and the next time I think I will.
ReplyDeleteI'll tweet this on Twitter!
ReplyDeleteMy friend Amanda told me about this. I'm going to Retweet this. We need to get the word out on helping animal shelters.
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