Charity Begins at Home

I do believe in the saying "Charity begins at home". With so many sites devoted to animal rescues, where do you begin? It's easy, start in your own home town, city, or state.


Although I would love to single handedly save animal kind, I am neither rich or have super powers. So.... I focus on my local animal shelter. When I donate cash or goods to my local shelter I feel like I've done something to help. I even put my dog Nicky (Nikki) on their "Happy Tails" page to encourage people to adopt. There are also many volunteer positions. I give to my favorite local charities before I give to anything else. If you've got more to give, that's great, spread it out. I also like to buy from sites that donate proceeds to specific charities. On the animal rescue site you can click every day to donate food for shelter animals and it's free! Do what you can at home and everything else is gravy.

There are a lot of sad tales of animal abuse, cruelty, and neglect it's in the news and on the web. I've tried to educate myself regarding puppy mills, not buying from pet stores and backyard breeders. I will always adopt from shelters or rescue orgs. If I dwell too much on the evil that men do I will feel depressed, helpless and overwhelmed. I choose action instead and doing what I can in my own community. I have friends who volunteer their time at the shelter walking dogs and one of my friends adopted a cage at a nearby cat shelter and she loves bringing supplies to them when she can. It gives her a great sense of accomplishment.

Hopefully, if anyone from good old Attleboro, Mass. happens to find my post they will be motivated by their love of animals to click on the link below to see what they can do to help. Local shelters depend on our support!

Now it is time to get off my soapbox and take the dog out for his nightly pee.

http://www.faaspets.org/donations.html