Kindness to Animal Week

Kindness to animal week started out rather sad for me.  Sabrina from Twitter posted an urgent plea to save/adopt a lovely young lab from a shelter in Lousiana.  This 7-8 month old pup was being put down because of space.  I sent out some urgent emails to people I know in the area, no, not effected by the oil spill and emailed the shelter offering to pay to keep the dog alive longer.  You could see in the dog's eyes how wonderful she would be for any family.  Here is the email I got with names erased so I don't get sued or something:

Hi Barbara,

Labs are so sweet but they are so numerous here in the South that they are hard to place. Really they are a dime a dozen.

What we do is try to get rescue groups interested in saving pets by offering financial help for their care: most dogs here are heartworm positive and you know how expensive it it to treat. Where does the money come from? Donations. We transfer donations for a pet to the group who takes the pet.

If you would like to know more about this, please read this page: http://members.petfinder.com/~LA26/guardian_angel.html 

I do not want to mislead you, there is no guarantee, but this is certainly an incentive that rescue groups appreciate. I suggest you work with a local group.

We have limited space so are needing to euthanize many healthy young dogs.  I am sure this is the same across the country.
Shelter Person x

Sooooo....
Please if you can adopt and give a forever home or foster while a home is sought.  If your circumstances allow please donate to shelters and rescue groups.  Fundraising ideas to come...one I wish I would have thought of earlier is Mothers Day sponsoring of a dog.

PLEASE if your pet is not spayed or neutered please get them fixed ASAP and support local spay/neuter clinic.  These are some of the kindest things you can do this week to celebrate BE KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK.

Thanks for listening to me rant. xoxo