April is All About the Animals
Happy April! We fool you not—April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month! It also just happens to be the month ASPCA Day falls. Henry Bergh, who founded the ASPCA 142 years ago, would be very proud!What can you do to help animals this month?
1. Take the pledge to fight animal cruelty.
2. Invite your friends to do the same!
3. Go orange for ASPCA Day this April 10th!
4. Read the top 10 ways to prevent animal cruelty.
5. And, of course, become a member of the ASPCA!
Stay tuned this month. Check this blog and our website, www.aspca.org, for updates on events and dates for live, online discussions with ASPCA experts on our Online Community.
posted by ASPCA at 11:45 AM PERMALINK
2 Comments:
I just rescued 2 dogs stuck in a truck. Me and my freind were at school when we heard the dogs barking. It was around one o'clock. We looked again at three o,clock and they were still there. They might have even been there for a long time before we saw them. I felt so sorry for them because one of them was a small puppy, mabye 5-7 weeks old. they were barking like mad. the window on the truck was only mabye a centimeter open? So I called the humane scoiety and gave them the lisence plate number and where the truck was. I never saw the animals in there again. I hope I never hope I will. Any comments? E-mail me at katty_finnigan@sympatico.ca
This is along a different line. We are, Compassion for Animals, a group of people who are trying to put programs similar to Western Washington Woman's Prison called, "The Prison Partnership Program".
The PPP, as it does in other states and prisons where it exists, chooses, through screening, the best behaved inmates. These inmates are then given a rescued dog and/or pup to love, socialize, and be trained to train dogs to be service dogs. Presently, the wait for a service dog is 1-5 years, leading toward the longer amount of time. And statistics show that, these inmates have increased self-esteem and are far, "less likely to re-offend", because they'll have increased self-esteem, and options to work with animals in some ways.
As someone who needs a service dog, I think the PPP is a win-win-win situation. The animals will be given love, cared for and trained properly, the disabled will get their animals to work with quicker, and the inmates will leave with knowledge and opportunities they otherwise might not have had.
It seems to me, that a nation-wide bill should be passed, requiring every state to institute a program similar to the PPP in all their prisons.
This would benefit all involved and I see nothing wrong with that, except the prison might have an increased expense in animal food, which may be covered by making Compassion for Animals a non-profit organization in the future. I am just beginning to look into all the options that are opened to all involved, educating myself as to how to write a petition, spread it around and then present it to the proper people and send it where it needs to go to get things moving in the right direction for the dogs, the disabled and the inmates within the program.
I look forward to all of your responses. And your help. Let's get together, roll our sleeves up and get to work to make things as I see them. Thank-you and take care.
Yours In Kindness and Gratitude,
Lin Goodman
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