Help Us Help Them

In every community in this nation there are homeless animals that are in need of homes, food, attention, and advocates to help their cause.  It takes very little of your time to become involved with your local shelter or rescue and walk a dog or pet a cat several times a week.  Every little bit helps.  From bathing to walking there is something that everyone can do to help needy shelter animals and rescue animals. 

In case you didn't know, there are lots of ways to help out with rescue and/or shelters.  Many of which you can do in your own community.  You can help to educate other people.  You can spay and neuter your own pets to prevent overpopulation.  You can learn how to breed responsibly or make a decision not to breed at all.  You can foster animals, or sit at a table or booth once or twice a year helping to pass out information to other people about responsible pet ownership and breed rescue.  You can donate to your local shelter or rescue organization, they are always in need of food, toys, towels, sheets and blankets, crates, bleach, cleaners, detergent and so on.  This section is designed to let you know just how you can help from spaying and neutering your own companions to sponsoring a shelter animal, even when you aren't in a position to adopt a needy animal.

Most importantly, no matter who you are, you can always use your voice to educate people.  For every child born every day, estimates say that there are 7 puppies and kittens born.  That means that every person would have to own 7 animals to even begin to make a dent in the population crisis.  The easiest thing we can do is educate people about how to be responsible for spaying and neutering their pets.  Its a terrible tragedy that many of these puppies and kittens are born into this world, just to die several weeks later.  Its wasteful, and senseless and it would be very easy to put a stop to it.  If everyone would have their pets spayed and neutered, and all breeders would be RESPONSIBLE breeders, screening families to make sure that breed is right for them, caring about their puppies and where they go and keeping up with owners throughout their lifetime, being there to take puppies from their breedings back should the homes not work out or no longer be able to support or keep them.  And most importantly of all, breeding for the preservation and improvement of the breed.  Not because their dog is cute.  There are lots of cute dogs dying in shelters every day.  Not because their dogs have wonderful personalities.  There are thousands of dogs with super personalities that were euthanized across the country today.  Not to line their pockets with money.  There were hundreds of dogs put to sleep today because the breeder didn't bother to make sure the owner was suited to the dog, they sold the puppy to the first person with cold hard cash.  The only reason to breed is to improve the quality and preserve the characteristics of that particular breed...period.  And that is the only way we are ever going to slow down the maddening spiral of death that has become the pet over population problem that we know today.    So please, help us to help the unfortunate ones in any way that you can.