Now imagine being someone who takes in these lost animals everyday. You have to provide food, housing, and medical care. Although you may want to help them as best as you can, you're constricted by one thing: money. Money doesn't grow on trees (unfortunately) and sadly it's the one thing that prevents you from nursing these animals back to full health and spirit. Not all people feel quite as drawn towards providing for animals and donations can be scarce at times. Abandoned or lost animals deserve the care they cannot provide for themselves, and shelters don't have the easiest time coming up with the money for said care.
Feeling as strong of a connection as I do to animals, I couldn't stand by and simply shrug my shoulders when the statistics of abandoned animals rose. Especially after the two encounters I experienced this summer taking care of two very sweet lost pets, I knew that this was an issue that hit home and needed to be helped. Taking care of an older dog who had wandered off, and learning that his owners did not wish to claim him back made an urgency inside me to make sure no animal would have to suffer like that.
A small step can go a long way, and that mentality can carry a change with it that achieves something greater than one could imagine. That's exactly why creating a donation drive for food and toys for shelter animals can mean saving an animal's life, and even giving it a chance at a new, healthier one. The name, Fighting For Lost Paws, is a play off the phrase "fighting for a lost cause." Many people push this kind of issue aside simply because it has to do with animals, and not humans (therefore it's deemed irrelevant). But just like humans, if you're taking in man's best friend, the least you could do is act likewise.
How the turnout of the donation drive will end up isn't up to me. But what I can change, I'm willing to, and I hope to have a great holiday gift to deliver to the shelter this year.
Feeling as strong of a connection as I do to animals, I couldn't stand by and simply shrug my shoulders when the statistics of abandoned animals rose. Especially after the two encounters I experienced this summer taking care of two very sweet lost pets, I knew that this was an issue that hit home and needed to be helped. Taking care of an older dog who had wandered off, and learning that his owners did not wish to claim him back made an urgency inside me to make sure no animal would have to suffer like that.
A small step can go a long way, and that mentality can carry a change with it that achieves something greater than one could imagine. That's exactly why creating a donation drive for food and toys for shelter animals can mean saving an animal's life, and even giving it a chance at a new, healthier one. The name, Fighting For Lost Paws, is a play off the phrase "fighting for a lost cause." Many people push this kind of issue aside simply because it has to do with animals, and not humans (therefore it's deemed irrelevant). But just like humans, if you're taking in man's best friend, the least you could do is act likewise.
How the turnout of the donation drive will end up isn't up to me. But what I can change, I'm willing to, and I hope to have a great holiday gift to deliver to the shelter this year.
