17 April, 2011

Support a good animal welfare organization

Hi faithful readers :-)

If you want to help animals in need and you have a Facebook account, please click the link below and click "LIKE" on that page.  It's a safe page - no viruses, no one hassling you with posts or asking for your details.  Just a non-profit org looking to earn money for animals. Click the link and click LIKE.


And now I'll tell you why:

As I mentioned in one of my recent posts, I have become more aware of some of the bad things people are doing to animals out there in our big world.  I found this one organization called the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals (ESMA) and I decided to really do my best to help this org.

ESMA is based in Egypt and have been a registered non-profit group since 2007 when a group of Egyptians and expatriates joined forces to try and stop a government sanctioned mass shooting of stray dogs.  Since then, this small but growing group has built an animal shelter and houses over 600 dogs and cats who need good homes.  They have rescued animals the government had poisoned or shot or cut.  They rescue animals hit by vehicles.  They are even now trying to feed the working animals whose livelihood was bad to before the Egyptian riots and who are now literally walking sticks, starved and wounded.  ESMA also works to maintain better pet shops and to improve the Giza Zoo, Egypt's biggest zoo. 

In addition to helping the animals. ESMA has undertaken educating the Egyptian people on the humane treatment of animals.  They help the horse and donkey owners learn ways to clean their animals.  They have veterinaries who care for the animals and provide street level care.  I really want to see this group succeed. 

See, if you're in America or Canada or the UK, you might feel that the treatment of domesticated animals is "ok" - a few shocking cases but by and large, if anything bad is happening on a large scale, we don't know it or we don't care to investigate to know it.   But in many many other parts of the world, domesticated animals are treated worse than the lowest slave or POW in any land.  They are shot, poisoned or clubbed to death to control their population.  Left still alive, they are picked up hours later, having spent agonizing moments dying while people pass them by.  In some countries, cats and skinned alive and then eaten.Working animals are beaten and made to work until literally they die in their gear. 

Call it lack of compassion, lack of education, lack of humanity, lack of funding - animals are being treated in ways that would boggle the mind of the average American or Brit.  But ESMA is in the middle of this trying to improve it, trying to make people see a better way to treat animals and I want to support that. Getting money to them is very hard - if you have a PayPal account then it is easy - but I cannot get my PayPal account to work.  Which leads us to why I have asked you to click the "Cat Bless You" page.

Cat Bless You is an organization that also wants to help animal welfare organizations by showcasing their efforts and raising awareness.  Cat Bless You has agreed to give ESMA 25000 USD in funds if ESMA can increase Cat Bless You's Facebook fan base to 25000 fans. 

So your click could bring 25000 USD to help cats, dogs, horses, donkeys, camels and the Giza Zoo. 

Not bad for just one click, yes?

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