6 effective ways to help homeless animals
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Alexander Babkin
Project Manager "Welcome Mail. Ru"- service for smart and honest charity.
Residents of Russia - the main cat owner on the planet. On the whole, Russians give birth pets more often than people in other European countries on this indicator we are in fourth place in the world. We love animals and sincerely strive to help abandoned dogs or homeless kitten. Many take the animals home, looking for their new owners, or even food. This confirms researchHomeless animals in Russia "Homeless animals in Russia" spent "Good."
A third of those surveyed picked pets on the street, and many (80%) were fed stray cats and dogs. However, not every help homeless animals is effective and useful. And how then to be? To begin with, what not to do.
1. Do not feed
It seems that a bowl of food - the easiest way to help homeless animals. For sure you also buy sausages to link the puppy and know my grandmother, to make a "dining room" for all cats and dogs yard, and along for fifty pigeons.
But podkarmlivaniya - a means of illusion. Firstly, it makes the situation worse: stray animals on the streets is growing. A domestic cat can give birth to 15 year of kittens. A dog can be lured stray into dangerous pack. Secondly, wrong and spoiled food can result in death of the animal.
There are far more effective ways to help the animals were on the street.
2. engage in volunteering
If you really want to do something useful for homeless animals, find your nearest shelter. Most likely, his staff broken, trying to grasp the immensity, and another pair of hands can not hurt them. You can bring food there, go for a pleasant stroll from the Shelter dogs, take the animal to the treatment or sterilization - in general, the problem is always there. By the way, if you have an old outerwear, it is required to use the shelter for insulation enclosures.
3. Find the animal a new home
Of course, the first thing you need to check, do not look for whether a dog or cat owners. The dog should look for adresnik or stamp. Looking hosts will also help regional groups in social networks, groups of species. If the owner is not found, you can take the animal to itself, to cure and to make part of the family - this is probably the best thing we can do for the rest without a dog or cat owner.
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Of course, not everyone has the opportunity (a small apartment, an allergy, a host of other obstacles), but you can try to find an animal shelter: post a photo on social networks to tell friends or just bring in shelter. But rescuing stray dog, remember that he could grow up on the street and be aggressive and dangerous.
4. Support program OSVV
OSVV (trapping, sterilization, vaccination, release) - this is the most humane way to make stray animals on the streets are not getting more, and stop the spread of rabies and other diseases. Many charities are committed to collect dogs and cats on the streets, they are treated, sterilized and then let go.
5. To inspire others by his example
Forget the talk about the fact that on the good things you need to keep quiet. The study foundHelp adults in RussiaThat people are much more willing to engage in charity, when they see an example of loved ones. Every fourth inspire positive experience of a friend or a famous person, and every third inspire approval for good family business.
Do not hesitate to talk to the social networks of a cat, you took home from the street, about his volunteer experience or that you transferred money shelters that need veterinary unit. Its cool!
6. Contents avtoplatozh to charity
There is quite a lot of honest and proven animal protection organizations - "Project May Day" from Ivanovo, "New Ark" from Obninsk, "Umka" from Vladivostok, Moscow fund "Nick" and "Ray" and others. And you can arrange avtoplatozh that without much fuss on your part will be a month to go to a charity for each of them. Even a small monthly donation 100-300 rubles to help fund better plan their work and save many more animals.
see also
- What you need to know before you take the dog from a shelter →
- How to distinguish the real benefactors from fraud →
- What if you picked up an animal in the street →