8 Ways To Save Animals

By: Sarah Harrison

Here are some easy things that you can do this festive season to help save animals:


1. Go vegetarian for just one week.

2. Make a donation to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to assist them in saving whales from illegal whaling. Or join Captain Paul Watson's newsletter, for up to date information on their missions as they fight to save the lives of the whales.

3. Sign up for the Elated Newsletter. Be aware of how animals are treated on farms. Support those farmers who do not abuse their animals to increase the speed of their growth and in the end their back pockets.

4. Become a member of Beauty Without Cruelty! Annual subscription is only R100, and a ten year subscription is R500. The banking details are available at http://www.bwcsa.co.za/. (Fax your name, address, contact details and deposit slip to 086 648 6949 or email it to them.)

5. Make at least one completely vegan dish for Christmas.

6. Put a "Say NO to Animals in Pet Shops" bumper sticker on your car (or someone else's). (The stickers are available for free from from Sarah)

7. Write to a freedom fighter in prison. Sarah Whitehead was sentenced to two years for removing a beagle from a garden where it was kept muzzled in a wooden cage and regularly beaten. The beagle is happy and safe in a new home.
You can write to her at the following address: Sarah Whitehead (VM7684) HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx TW15 3JZ, United Kingdom. Visit http://www.vpsg.org/ to find out about the other Animal Rights Prisoners in the United Kingdom.

8. Copy, paste and send this link to your friends and family:
http://animals-info.blogspot.com

For more information on any of these, or to give Sarah feedback, please click here to email her.



To Sarah and everyone else mentioned in the content above:

Well done on your efforts for also trying to help save the animals of our world. I will try my best to also 'pass the message on' by keeping this blog updated as much as I can. I especially like Sarah's idea of 'Saying No To Animals In Petshops'. I always cringe when I walk past a pet shop and think of the poor animals in there, especially how they must have got there (the parts that we never really know about). Well done on that.

I would also like to add one more thing that I personally can not stand, and that is:
9. Say No To Birds in Cages
Have we as humans ever thought how insane it actually is to take a creature of such beauty, and confine it to a cage for the rest of its flying life? My worst is when people say: "oh no, the bird is ok, we clipped his wings!" and I want to sometimes respond and say, "oh great, and you will 'be ok' if you loose your feet?" Logically its the same loss of mobility.

Try owning a bird that comes into your garden and flies away when it wants to. If you look very carefully, they more than often come back over and over again.

I like this message and I hope it gets you thinking too. Thanks Sarah, for the idea and to start to make people think twice this festive season.

Untill next time,
Juanita.