The Animal Rescue Site: Adopt a Shelter Dog Month!

Linking to yesterday's post about providing free care and food for shelter animals (http://365days2changetheworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-animal-rescue-site-free-clicks-to.html?m=1), today's post (also from The Animal Rescue Site) is about giving a 'forever home' to a lonely shelter pet!
So The Animal Rescue Site has declared October to be 'Adopt a Shelter Dog Month' this year! So what better time to head down to your local shelter and adopt a rescued dog (or cat!) to add to your family! (Obviously check with your parents/spouse/partner/house mates before doing this- I wouldn't want to cause any disturbances with my suggestions!)

Adding a dog to your household has plenty of benefits for you too!
- helps you to get outside and get some exercise
- provides companionship for you and your family
- can provide protection from intruders (I guess it depends on the breed of dog!)
- can alleviate stress and improve your mood
- can provide assistance for people with disabilities
(just to mention a few)

Don't worry if you can't adopt a pet this month (or at all), you can still help! You could foster animals while they are waiting for their 'forever home'; volunteer at a local rescue centre or shelter; make a donation to a shelter, kennel or animal care organization. In whatever way you can, pledge to help The Animal Rescue Site to promote their 'Adopt a Shelter Dog Month'! For more details or to pledge, go to: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=AdoptAShelterDogMonth

Some websites to look at for rescue shelters in the UK are:
www.battersea.org.uk
www.dogstrust.org.uk
www.rspca.org.uk
www.pets4homes.co.uk/adoption/
www.bluecross.org.uk

Thank you for helping homeless dogs in whatever way you can! Remember to click on The Animal Rescue Site's 'Click Here to Give - it's FREE' button (http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2&link=ctg_bcs_home_from_ths_home_sitenav
), which generates money for charity, paid for by site sponsors. When you click, these companies and groups actually pay for your click! That's 365 free chances each year to help! The Animal Rescue site gives 100% of sponsor advertising fees to their charitable partners- so all of the money generated by your daily clicks will actually go to feeding rescued animals! The Animal Rescue Site has given over 564,256,462 bowls of food since 2002 (figure updated monthly)!

Blessings!

Ronell x

"Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O Lord" {Psalm 36v6}

The Animal Rescue site: Free clicks to Feed Animals in Shelters!

This is another site run by The GreaterGood Network. It is pretty much the same principle as The Hunger Site and The Breast Cancer Site free clicks, except that it supports centers that rescue abused and abandoned animals by giving them free food.

‘The Animal Rescue Site’ is a charitable site that sells a whole host of items that donate to supporting the centers for abandoned and abused rescue animals. It also has a lot of excellent information on different causes that need supporting and how we can help.

According to the RSPCA’s latest figures, "130,033 animals were rescued, seized or signed over to the RSPCA" in the UK in 2010 (http://www.politicalanimal.org.uk/faqs/faq-category-3/how-many-animals-do-the-rspca-rescue-or-seize-last-year).

M.A.D. (an American charity: http://www.makeadifferencerescue.org/tag/animal-rescue-statistics/)  released the following statistics for America on their site: “6 to 8 million lost and unwanted animals enter animal shelters nationwide annually... 3 to 4 million animals are euthanized in shelters every year, well over 250,000 per month… the leading cause of death of healthy dogs and cats is euthanasia”. As you can see, there are a lot of vulnerable animals that need to be fed and cared for! You can help with this for free!

One of my favourite features (which I use every day that I log onto the internet using my laptop) is ‘daily free clicks’. Basically, you visit http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2&link=ctg_bcs_home_from_ths_home_sitenav and click on the ‘Click Here to Give - it's FREE’ button, which generates money for charity, paid for by site sponsors. When you click, these companies and groups actually pay for your click! That's 365 free chances each year to help! The Animal Rescue site gives 100% of sponsor advertising fees to their charitable partners- so all of the money generated by your daily clicks will actually go to feeding rescued animals! The Animal Rescue Site has given over 564,256,462 bowls of food since 2002 (figure updated monthly)!

I have added a bookmark called ‘click’ to my bookmark bar at the top of my web browser to help me remember. Other suggestions would be to set The Animal Rescue Site (http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_bcs_home_sitenav) as your home page, or to sign up for a free click reminder email (under the big ‘Click Here to Give - it's FREE’ button). You control how often you get a reminder! Bonus: if you are a new registrant to the GreaterGood Network (owners and operators of The Animal Rescue Site), they will make an extra donation to the cause when you sign up.

Thank you click sponsors!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.” {Proverbs 12:10}