An Easy Way to Help Protect Animals

There's an easy way for you to participate in the ASPCA's campaign to end animal cruelty.

They are giving you the opportunity to sign a pledge that you will work to end animal cruelty.

Protecting animals is a crucial part of the ASPCA's mission. They are really hands-on in this field. Their investigative and forensic work on the Michael Vick case recently received international attention.

Within the last month, the ASPCA announced the creation of the first mobile CSI-type forensic lab with trained veterinarian staff that can be used to investigate and provide evidence in important animal cruelty cases.

You may ask, what good does it do to sign this pledge? It does a lot of good.

First, you are making a public statement. That's important.

Second, when the ASPCA goes to Congress or state legislators while lobbying for animal protection legislation, they can confidently tell those legislators how many people have signed this pledge -- they can even tell the legislators how many people from their state and district have signed the pledge.

Legislators are intelligent enough to translate those numbers into potential voters. So the more people who sign the pledge, the more the legislators will listen to and hopefully act upon the ASPCA recommendations.

Third, these same numbers can be used when working with private corporations, and for funding grants.

It's amazing how powerful your signature on a pledge can become.

I signed the pledge. Now you have to opportunity to join me.

Comments

[jan]

It is important for people to support groups that actually DO prevent cruelty to animals, not just those that raise money.

[Kaye Swafford]

Thanks Jan,

That is an important thing to remember--supporting people who actually DO things to make life better really makes a difference.

Kaye

[Dog Ramps]

Hi,
I love the pet animals very much.Protecting the animals is our primary duty..