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i want to make a difference but i dont know how.

2007-12-12 22:30:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets Other - Pets

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Here are some things you can do:

Support an animal charity, eg a rescue or conservation charity. You can donate money, volunteer, or help with fundraising.

Rescue/adopt your pets rather than buying them from breeders and pet stores.

Make sure your own pets are really well looked after - suitable environment, good quality food etc.

Do not shop at pet stores that sell animals - and tell them why not! (Overpopulation, impulse buying, poor care etc)

Be a campaigner. You can write or email anyone about various animal issues. For example, write to your MP asking for better animal protection laws. Write to your local Kennel Club to make hereditary health tests mandatory. Write to supermarkets asking them to stop selling factory farmed meat and eggs and asking them to sell more vegetarian and vegan foods. Write to pet shops asking them to stop seling live animals, crap food, dangerous "toys", too-small cages etc.

Try to educate people (but only if you know what you are talking about!). Tell peolple about rescue animals needing homes, proper care, humane training methods, the importance of neutering and microchipping etc.

Sign and circulate petitions about animal related issues.

Try going vegetarian or vegan. If you can't, opt for free range or organic products.

Buy only cruelty free cleaning stuff and cosmetics. Don't wear fur and boycott shops that sell it.

Hope this is enough ideas to get you started!

2007-12-13 02:00:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

If you know a lot about a particular animal, answer questions on this website! There are tons of people on here that don't know how to be a good animal mom or dad. Just help them with suggestions and guidance.

The other think you can do, like the other poster said, is ENCOURAGE ENCOURAGE ENCOURAGE others to adopt an animal from a shelter instead of buying one from a pet store or breeder.
I find people that say (for example) "I want to buy a bunny in the Austin Texas area - Does anyone know of anyone that sells them?". Then I research Petfinder.com and other animal shelter websites in the Austin area and send the person pictures and information of bunnies in shelters in Austin Texas. I encourage them to get one from a shelter because they're lonely and don't have a home.

Hope this helps.

2007-12-12 23:22:37 · answer #2 · answered by Tweed Bunny 2 · 1 0

well there are a lot of things you can do
do you want to specifically target pets, such as dogs and cats?
or look at cruelty towards animals overseas?
for example, in many countries, a lot of animals are being cruelly ill-treated because of belief in herbal remedies such as the supposed healing properties of a tiger's bone marrow, or the stomach bile found in asiatic black bears
some bears are kept in the same cage for decades, the result being that they grow too big, and their bones are actually forced to grow into the cage, taking on the shape of their prison. bile is extracted through a cut made in the bear's abdomen. a tube is inserted into this opening to tap the bile, or a steel stick is forced into the gall bladder with the bile then running down it into a basin. during milking, investigators saw bears moaning, banging their heads against their cages, and chewing their own paws. The mortality rate is between 50 and 60 percent. [2] When the bears stop producing bile after a few years, they are usually killed for their meat, fur, paws and gall bladders. Bear paws are considered a delicacy.
in other countries, cats and dogs are considered a delicacy, and so are boiled alive so that they lose all their fur.
there are many things you can do, like signing petitions against such acts, or even sponsoring animals - attempts to save them are often met with defiance, and animal activists are often forced to buy them off their owners.
or, simply donate. to an animal shelter, to greenpeace, to sea shepherd (the more hardcore version of greenpeace)... if you're thinking of getting a pet, don't get one from a breeder but go to a shelter.
once again, there are many things you can do

2007-12-12 23:25:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

regrettably there'll continuously be human beings accessible who delight in, or a minimum of have not got a concern with animal cruelty. whilst that is possibly that this certainty won't in any respect substitute, what CAN substitute is the cruelty in the direction of animals via industry, farming and commercial ventures. human beings must be eductated on the place the products they purchase fairly come from. they ought to be keen to help the companies that use cruelty loose practices of their production, and supply up spending any funds on persons that do not. that's the main important way we are able to alter those issues. Eg - if human beings did not purchase furs, seals would not be killed. of direction, there are going to be animals that are nevertheless killed for nutrition, or culling (kangaroos at the instant are not killed for fur - that could be a via-manufactured from culling for inhabitants administration). human beings are continuously going to devour meat - that is unrealistic to assume the worldwide to grow to be vegetarian - it in simple terms isnt' going to ensue any time quickly. So, kinder farming techniques must be inspired, so farmers can nevertheless make a residing doing the appropriate factor via the animals. back, fairly, that is as much as shoppers to try this. If we're not keen to pay the extra advantageous $ to help the costlier, kinder farming production practices, then farmers will go broke, and occasional fee imports will take over the industry. human beings are not powerless - if we care, we are able to alter the worldwide for countless animals!

2016-11-03 03:02:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

I'm helping raise some children to be kind to animals as well as people, to appreciate and understand animals too.

2007-12-13 05:35:39 · answer #5 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0 0

well you can't really do that i don't think :'[
people are people
but you can get more people to adopt
just by posting diffrent dogs that need homes online and when one of your friends are about to get a puppy tell them to go to the shelter and why they should go there instead of a breeder
my 2 main resons are
them dogs NEED a home puppies from breeders always get homes
and the 2nd one is theyre cheaper :]

2007-12-12 22:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa 3 · 2 1

I put a greenpeace banner on my myspace page,

& Thats about it really.

I dont know what i can do.

2007-12-12 22:37:12 · answer #7 · answered by Hey I Was Wondering 2 · 1 1

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