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Wednesday, 22 June 2011

We should save the animals - they can’t save themselves

Hello, viewer you will today witness an amazing feat of a dog tightrope walking, actually no as this is wrong and is what my charity, Animal Aid, is trying to stop. Anywaay …Thank you for taking interest in my blog. Looking after animals (no matter what they are) is extremely important to me. Many people think “It doesn’t harm my pets, so why should I care!”, but it does matter, if we don’t do something about this now many wild animals could be driven to extinction and animal cruelty will still be in practice in the future. Something has to be done now to change this picture: My charity, Animal Aid, has been helping animals for many years now and after over 15 successful campaigns I think they need more publicity, as they are not as well known as other campaigns like WWF and the RSPCA who are rather well known animal rights campaigns but do a similar job as my charity. My charity has been helping with many major campaigns, like animal testing and to ban hunting. At the moment they are campaigning to put security cameras in slaughter houses. So far eight big supermarkets have agreed, and the videos they have recorded are gruesome with so much violence even to protected animals ! I think you should support my charity for the animals; there are many ways you can do this such as:

• Order products from the Animal Aid website you could buy a gift for a birthday(address included at the bottom of this post)
• Order a pack of purple poppies or even just one for yourself (for one poppy it is 150p but all the money goes to support these poor animals and when you wear the poppy you are also remembering the animals who die in war.)
• By a vegetarian or vegan (or you can do something like meat free Monday)
• Getting monthly emails on Animal Aid’s current campaigns
• Ordering a free “get active “ pack from the website

BEFORE you just turn your eyes away from the screen and go completely forget about Animal Aid please can you leave a comment, I would be extremely grateful if you could please answer the following questions?

1. Had you heard of Animal Aid before you read my blog?
2. Would you now support Animal Aid or make a donation?
3. Would you tell your friends and family (and your pets) about Animal Aid?
4. Have I changed your opinion or attitude to this issue and how if I have?
5. Do you now know more about Animal Aid?
6. Just out of interest which countries do you live in it would be interesting to know.

Thank you for reading, I am so grateful you have, if you need more information please visit the Animal Aid website (http://animalaid.org.uk/ ).
Maria