Paws For Thought Summary

Since being involved in a dog rescue organization, I’ve learned a lot about how an animal control shelter works. They are not just people who will take your dog if they get out of the yard. They are animal lovers who try their best to educate the community pet population control and help homeless pets find a new home. I sat down with a friend of mine who I met through the animal rescue group with both volunteer with to find out more about a day in the life of a shelter worker.

Hello everyone, my name is Katrina Clark. So, imagine one day you were ripped away from your family and from your home with nowhere to go, in the street, cold, starving, and have absolutely no idea where your next meal is going to come from. Well, for over 7 million animals each year that is the sad reality. I personally own around ten cats that were either from a shelter or on the street starving. I also own two dogs that I have found on the road that had been dumped and left to die. My experience with adopting these animals has truly opened my eyes to how many animals are truly in need of homes. All of these animals are sweet blessings that I wouldn’t trade for the world. If I can find loving furry friends that I love, then so can you. With

Faye Carey started out as an everyday girl, but that changed when she decided to volunteer for a week at her local animal shelter. On her first day on the job, Animal Control picked up a puppy, and on her last day of the job, she saw that it was still there. Carey felt empathy for the puppy and decided to try to get the puppy adopted. She advertised the puppy on Trade Me, an Internet-auction website, and found the puppy a great home with loving owners. Then, she learned about an abandoned litter of kitties, and wanted them to have the same happy ending as the puppy. Faye Carey wanted a free way to advertise the litter of kitties, and many more abandoned animals, so she got the brilliant idea to set up a Facebook page to try to get animals adopted. It worked really well, and now Faye Carey has managed to find 60 abandoned animals new homes through her Facebook page, called Animal Re-home Waikato. It is a lot of work getting the animals adopted--the work includes grooming and cleaning the animals, setting up times for possible owners to see the puppies, and answering questioning emails. Her Facebook page has made it easier to do this, since she is able to post photos of animals she wants to get adopted, and answer to questions through comments. Animal Re-home Waikato has over 300 likes, because of Faye’s hard work and effort to getting as many animals as possible adopted.

Looking around me, I caught a glimpse of an array of different presentations being made by my peers; Dominic was talking about his experience with Guide Dogs for the Blind and Sophia was explaining her feminine hygeine drive for the homeless. For Nina and I’s presentation, we displayed our project: Bows for Paws. With our glittery poster board, we played a slideshow I made that included the pictures I took of all the animals from Berkeley Animal Care Services, along with animal homelessness facts. To each teacher and student who came by, Nina and I enthusiastically introduced ourselves. We began our presentation by explaining what Bows for Paws is about: a non-profit organization that sells cheer bows and donates 100% of the proceeds to local animal shelters in order to raise animal welfare awareness, specifically shedding a light on animal homelessness. Knowing that not many are familiar with exactly what animal welfare was, I briefly educated our listeners on the topic and related it back to our project. Next, Nina and I explained how Bows for Paws benefits animals. With each bow that we sell, a picture of a rescue from Berkeley Animal Care Services when I volunteered there, is sent. This picture shows exactly what each buyer’s money is going towards and bringing awareness to animal homelessness. Once we ship the bows, we donate the money to

Faye Carey is another teen activist who fights for pet abandonment. For example, an article explained how she spends every Friday at Animal Control, plus three hours every night. She does so many things to re-home animals. Faye puts her all into pet abandonment. Also, in the time that Faye is at the Animal Control, she advertises the animals. NewsHub wrote how she has a Facebook page called “Animal Re-home Waikato” where she posts pictures of the animals. Faye currently has 300 likes on her page. This shows that Faye wants to show the world that there are some animals that are in serious need of homes. In addition, Faye saw an animal at the shelter that need a home. She felt bad for him. According to an article, "So I advertised him on TradeMe

Animals admitted into the animal shelter will be care by licensed veterinarians; we will give the animals’ medical treatment and will treat them for external and internal parasites, vaccinations, micro chipped, spayed or neuter. Money collected from donor programs, general donations, grants and fundraising events will pay for these

Millions of wild animals, including large felines, nonhuman primates, and countless others are kept captive in private possession in the U.S (“Ten Fast”). The trade of exotic animals is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry (“Ten Fast”). The PAWS organization is funded by thousands of benefactors to work towards the official illegalization of trafficking and harboring wild animals. Selfless volunteers serve nonstop to liberate these animals and return them to their natural habitat. The containment, possession, and sale of exotic animals needs to be banned country-wide, which not only the benefits health and safety of the public, but also the well being of the animals.

Countless lives locked away in cages and forgotten about have overwhelmed our society, it has left blood stains on our history as a species and if history has taught us anything, it’s that we have a choice to change our ways of adjusting to situations. A war which was fought in pursuit of ending such criminal means, yet we as human beings do little to nothing to end the horrific crimes of animal deaths in shelters. It is no secret that this world has become infused with problems that have extended from one side of the globe to the other. Amongst these problems lies a terrible truth: nearly every year, sums of almost eight million cats and dogs have been placed in shelters around the world. Out of these vast numbers, half will be

Pictures for Paws will be active in the community in three ways. The first is that we will encourage employees to volunteer at local animal shelters or other animal related business for at least an hour a week, and will provide company transportation to this volunteer opportunity on Saturday mornings every Saturday of each month.

We really appreciate your support of Best Friends and your concern about the animals in New York City’s shelters. As you may know, 9,000 individual dogs and cats are killed in America’s shelters every day. In light of this, Best Friends mission is to concentrate on increasing adoption, promoting spay-neuter programs and reducing the killing of animals in shelters in order to bring about a time when every pet has a family. We believe that this can be achieved when like-minded organizations and individuals come together to get to the very root of animal homelessness.

Local adoption centers will be in attendance providing animals for adoption, attendees are encouraged to bring pet food for donation. Low cost vaccinations, goody bags, a pet portrait station, and crafts for kids will be provided. Animal welfare and rescue groups will offer informational sessions to parents interested in learning about the emotional benefit of having a pet, developmental guidelines and tips on age appropriateness of introducing pets.

It is not your ordinary advertising poster. This specific one catches peoples attention and makes them think about their own dog.

Rent-a-Pup is an organization that allows families to rent a pup for a day or two so you can take it home and see how it acts around your kids or other animals. After the few days, you have the option to adopt the dog or not. You can also just rent a pup for a few hours to take it to the park or whatever you want to do with them. This gives the dogs a chance to get out and run around with people and it gives them the chance to be adopted by a wonderful family. When you adopt a dog you will receive a free bag of dog food for your dog. We also will have dog food for sale at the shelter so if you run out you can buy the same kind from us. Lastly we will have a variety of toys at our shelter for the dogs which will also be for sale. We will make

PetSmart has an informative web site that is user-friendly. It uses visual aides to enhance the presented information, i.e. pictures of their products, of pets and of people with their pets, symbols, a variety of colors, and different fonts and formatting styles of written material to communicate to their audience who, what, why, when and where they are. As soon as you open their web page you are greeted with their logo- their name with the red bouncing ball that makes you think of playful pets, and a number of “lives saved” currently at 7,728,388 pets adopted through PetSmart stores and sponsored activities. It includes many links to their products, services and corporate sites in the United States and Cananda. It is very easy to search

Dear Mrs.Goranson, I am writing to you today because i want to make a change in our community. I want to raise money so we can open animal shelters for stray animals. Over the past two days i have been researching about what happens to the animals in need of shelter each year. And its absolutely. Each year 3.6 million animals die each year because their owners had lost their temper and hurt or killed the animals. Now i know thats kinda irrelevant but the owners tried to give their animals to the shelters but the shelters said they didnt have enough room.In 2009 around a total of 13,620 animals died because they werent to get into a shelter. And from then on it increased. but not only. And in 2003 was the highest time 33-69% of animals