These are links to special events, actions or grass-roots areas sponsored by animal or canine-friendly crews  from all over.  You can help in lots of ways--big and small. Timely actions are listed on this page.  For On-going Ways You Can Help the Doggies--Click Here Need some fundraising ideas for your organization? More fundraising ideas & products listed here To have your organization's event, petition or drive or fund raiser listed on this page, please send mail to francis@caryn.com.

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Quilt for Puppy Mill Dogs

The dogs in puppymills live their lives on wire. The law used to require that they had a solid resting surface so they could get off the wire but both the USDA and the PA Dept. of Agriculture recently removed that requirement at the request of the mills. So now the dogs have no solid surface to rest. They constantly balance on wires with their feet often falling through. Many dogs are maimed when their feet and legs fall through the wires and get ripped off as they struggle to pull them back through. The dogs also never have a blanket or soft bed to snuggle in. Most of them live in rabbit hutch cages outside in the coldest of weather with no heat.

In memory of the dogs who have suffered and who are suffering, we are creating a quilt that will be displayed at the Second Paws March Against Puppymills next May 5, 2002. Everyone is invited to send in a block for the quilt in memory of a dog from the mills that they have loved or who has touched them, or in honor of the dogs who are suffering. We have volunteers who will sew all the blocks together into a quilt. The blocks can be of various sizes. They should not be smaller than 6 x 6 or larger than 24 x 24. Please feel free to email me with questions or send your block to:

Hearts United for Animals, Box 565, Westtown, PA 19395.

Thank you for caring about the dogs, Lee Wheeler. Hearts United for Animals dogshelter@aol.com

Buy a print, save a pet!

This is a breathtaking 17"x22" print of three Labs running in the shallow surf at sunset. View the print at http://www.avd.cc/teamwork For each $12 print sold, a $5 donation will be made to an animal shelter or rescue of your choice. You can order the print at http://www.avd.cc/teamwork/order.html

Sponsor a Billboard
The most effective way to eliminate puppymills is to educate the public that if they buy a dog in a pet store they contribute to an industry that supports puppymills. If the public knew that this horrific industry could be ended if they would refuse to buy a dog in a store, they would instead buy their dog from a reputable breeder, or adopt a dog from a shelter or rescue. Then the stores would stop selling puppies and the puppymills would go out of business.
The misery of puppymills can be ended. Please help educate the public by donating money to help sponsor a billboard. For more information, email hua@hua.org.

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