Recently, Unleashed member, Lea sent me some sticker designs she had created to promote shelter adoption. It's always inspiring to see what other people are doing to speak up for animals, and so I wanted to share Lea's designs with you:
I probably don't need to tell you Lea's onto a good thing. Adopting an animal from a shelter, rather than buying one from a pet store or breeder, is a great way to help animals ... For so many reasons!
For starters, you're giving a needy animal a home. Every year across Australia, over 200,000 dogs and cats are put down in shelters because a loving home could not be found for them. Every time a dog or cat is bought from a pet store, or a breeder, that's one less home for an animal in a shelter. And to add insult to injury it also creates the demand for even more dogs and cats to be bred :(
If that weren't reason enough, then puppy mills certainly are! Puppy mills are like factory farms for dogs. Imagine dozens or even hundreds of dogs kept as breeding machines - each dog confined to a small enclosure and given little exercise. These animals rarely get enough opportunity to socialise with other dogs or humans. Investigations of puppy mills have found dogs huddled in enclosures without proper shelter or bedding, and have found sick and weak dogs without proper vet care.
Many pet stores sell puppies from puppy mills. It's heart breaking to think that while the furry little bundle of joy that families buy at a pet store is on his way to his new home, his mum and dad are probably still suffering in a puppy mill.
Adopting a new furry friend from a shelter can be an incredibly rewarding experience. And it is all the more rewarding when you know that you've given a needy animal a loving home. Fingers crossed Lea's stickers reach a lot of people (and I'm sure she'd be happy for you to print them out and help make that happen - click on either image to get a larger version).
Have you adopted an animal?
Got something you're doing to speak up for animals?
Leave a comment below and tell us your story.
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If you want then I could mail some to you
Send me your contact details and then I can chuck some in an envelope and send them off.
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Both my dogs are pound puppies as i didn't like the fact that dogs were killled if they didn't get homes. My springer spaniel was actually meant to be put down a few hours before mom, dad and i saved her.
We need more animals in the pounds found forever homes not put down. So DOWN with pet stores and Up with animal shelters, the pound and your local RSPCA!
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Here, many "humans" like to throw the puppies in garbage cans alive or dead. it is at least sick. abuses are often on the islands and the countryside, whilst the latest trend is hanging them with wire or burning them alive. and of course the mass-poisonings that are an every day phenomenon.
The problem in my country is that almost noone understands the importance of sterilizing their pets.
i am happy to be a volunteer in a shelter and take care of stray animals nearby on my own, and very proud to become in two weeks a mommy of two 2.5year-old pittbul-something-mix-doggies from the shelter
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in Greece we have pet-shops that keep puppies on their displays and if they aren't sold in time they leave them grow up there with no space to walk, they can only turn around themselves. and if they grow more? they dump them.
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