Hope for Homeless Animals

It’s a question I get often, and there are so many ways you can help that it’s truly easy to get involved. Every time you take action in even the smallest way, you add your efforts to those of others, and together we can start moving this mountain that is the domestic animal crisis:

1. Tell others about the Hopeful Initiative, whether by sending them to the Hopeful Intro page (http://hopeful.ws/intro) where they can get an understanding of what we do, or on Facebook by sharing the Hopeful Homeless group with your friends. In this way we expand the Hopeful Network, thereby increasing it’s potential…
2. Get the Animails in your email and send on the Lost/Found/Homeless animals on to your own personal network. Register for the Animails here: http://hopeful.ws/intro/networkerreg.htm
3. If you’re on Facebook, share one homeless animal from the Hopeful Homeless group with your Facebook friends every day.If your friends do the same, we get more people to see our orphans, Easily 10 000 people could see the animals every day, such is the power of social networking. If you’re not on Facebook, you should be, it’s a powerful networking environment. Type in Hopeful Homeless in the Facebook search at the top of the page.
4. Volunteer time at your local Shelter, or help a rescue worker in your area. The Hopeful Homers can all use an extra hand: http://hopeful.ws/homeless/misc.php?action=list All Moderators are Homers…
5. Educate people regarding the need for sterilisation of domestic animals. Get your local vet to commit to sterilising animals at reduced rates – it’s time many more vets came to the party. Tell your friends to sterlise their animals – don’t take no for an answer. Only teo type of people don’t sterilise – licensed breeders and fools. The largest contributing factor to the devastating euthanasia statistics is indiscriminate breeding.
6. Make your home a foster home. There is always a need for a ‘halfway house’ for our orphans, a place where they can get shelter and companionship while we’re trying to find them a home.Shelters are terrible places for animals to be…
7. Participate in the Hopeful Animal-Related Forum (http:hopeful.ws/arf). Add your knowledge and insight to an exisitng topic, or start a new one that is close to your heart., learn from others, respond and coordinate action alerts. Collaborate with others on particular ventures.
8. Become a Rescuer/Homer. Do your apprenticeship with an existing Homer (it’s not as easy as you might think) from the list in #4. Register here: http://hopeful.ws/homerreg.htm
9. Become a Hopeful Helper. If you have some extra time and a small resource base, there is much that you can do, whether online or offline, to make a difference. Here’s the registration link: http://hopeful.ws/intro/helperreg.htm
10. Become an Inspector. This enables you to make decisions and do things that ordinary people cannot, like confiscate animals that are in dire straits. The more qualified inspectors we have in the Network, the more we can act without having to wait for the police or anyone else… Contact me at derek@hopeful.ws and I will put forward a list of candidates.

Add your comments below if you would like to suggest more ways of making a difference in the lives of our animal friends…

A Light in their Darkness

Derek

Hopeful Homeless

Tags: animal care, animal rescue, animal welfare

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