What Is The Most Philanthropic Thing You’ve Personally Seen Done For Animals?
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We’ve all heard amazing stories, but what about in person?
When I volunteered at the SPCA, some twelve year old boy felt bad for the animals, so he managed to raise tons of money (I still don’t know how he did it), and he and his parents came in one night with bag after bag of food to give us. I think the count was fourteen huge bags, and that was just cat food (that’s where I was that night). How wonderful of him.
Also, at the last round of training classes, there was a woman and her daughter there with their new rescued greyhound, whom I drooled over at each class (the favor was returned, making the longing worse). The mom told me her daughter saved up every sent for two.years. to adopt this dog. She was eight years old, I think.
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went to houston a couple of years ago to the george r. brown convention center for a cat show and saw some people there who were collecting money for animals who were abandoned after hurricane katrina. my 10 yr old son and 9 yr old daughter had been doing extra chores to earn money for a trip to splashtown (water park) but they said THIS was more important and donated the entire amount and said we could just go to the city pool instead……….
My sis saved a pup from drowning 2 kids were giving non pedigree pups for free and had one left. They decided to drown it and she took the pup in and reported the kids to RSPCA good!
she is she is now a happy tubby cat 
I have a Yorkie too i love animals 
I found 3 years a ago a hungry old Tabby cat a stray. I took her in and named her Tomasina at the time i wasn’t sure is she was female or male so i put the names together
At the vet clinic where I work a lady brought in a 9 year old black lab that she rescued. She saw him chained up in the backyard of an abandoned house. He had no food, water, or shelter. He was SOO thin and weak. She took him home and fattened him up. She brought him into the clinic…He was heartworm Positive, And he had a HUGE tumor between his legs. He could hardly walk because of this tumor. She did not have enough money to treat him, so she set up a website for him, and raised enough money to get him treated for heartworms. Once he was negative, she then raised enough money to get surgery done so he could have his tumor removed. It has been 2 months now since all of that, and he is a happy healthy boy!!! If he wasn’t found, he would have died of starvation. If animal contol would have picked him up, he for sure would have been euthanized due to his numerous medical problems, age etc. He was lucky the right person found him!
Here’s a recent one..a former stray cat that was taken in by the rescue I volunteer for needed an expensive eye surgery (due to a never-treated eye infection). Money was donated here and there, but then a local couple gave $1200 and the surgery was done last week. I’ve been helping medicate the little guy, and today he actually looked out the window and could see something.
People aren’t all bad. : )
I can’t think of something philanthropic that a human has done for dogs (or a dog)….. but here are ways we all can be, in our own small way:
Donate unused pet foods to the animal shelter after a loved pet has passed away, or something where the food is no longer needed. Don’t it go to waste.
Getting rid of old towels that are still in good shape will be welcome at the animal shelter….. instead of Goodwill.
Folks whom I think are rather philanthropic (in general) within the world of dogs:
Anyone who does animal assisted therapy
Trainers of assistance dogs
Veterinarians & associated staff
Thank you, kind folk for your devotion
We pick up strays all the time and never have the heart to get rid of them. Nemo was a dog of a kid from school and the dog was tearing things up. He looked like a large solid black boarder collie. The parents couldn’t control this sweet dog so they dumped him. Then because people found out whose it was the kid’s uncle was going to shoot him. I hated the kid he made fun of me and made me miserable but I saw how much he loved his dog so I told my parents and we took the dog home for a few hours. We put him in the house fed him and gave him water. Then we hooked him up with an elderly man who was working where he met Nemo as a stray. He had been feeding him and we hadn’t known. When he showed up and Nemo didn’t he thought Tucker, one of a guy’s Timberwolves, had attacked him and killed him. The owner was going to let his wolves kill Nemo on purpose. The man took him home and the kid visits his dog every chance he gets. He has never had a problem with the dog who now keeps his other dog company. When the kid asked my help he was in tears, that was the last time he made fun of me. I did it for the dog, if I could have I probably would have kept him myself. As long as the dog was happy that was all that mattered. All our dogs are strays except when we got our husky Shakira. We have two dogs that are more recent, both strays. We have saved more than fifty dogs (I counted) from the streets and I would repeat them all. I just hate to give them up. We ended up going through at least a 50lb bag of dogfood a week a couple of years ago so you could imagine how expensive that was to keep them taken care of when you never had much money. Anyone is messed up to dump such wonderful pets. I wish they could understand what its like to be unsure where your next meal will come from or where your “mommy and daddy” went or how your going to stay dry in the rain. People can be so cruel to animals. I could work with the SPCA I would but it would kill me to see them go especially if they’d have to be “put down” I don’t have the heart to lose more dogs, it tears me up. I liked only one cat in my life and one of our dogs demolished her while I was asleep. My parents took hours to decide to tell me. I also lost a dog this year whom was raised from a puppy. My lab’s puppy. Her daddy was hand picked by me and was a boarder collie. So when I can I’ll probaby end up donating to the SPCA but I will never have the heart for going into a field like that. Let me just say I’m glad someone does. We have tried but we are no longer needed on our area for this purpose so, good luck with the SPCA’s work.
My boss at work had fostered a shepherd/lab mix, appropriately named “Fawster”
He was the sweeetest boy ever, and had been in a shelter for a year-I couldn’t figure out why! There was no way for me to be able to have him-I had my hands full with a puppy, and being in college, that’s more than enough. A coworker took him home one night because she felt bad that he had to stay at work all the time (I work at a dog daycare/training/bording facility). He did wonderful at her house-even with her cats.
Well, for one reason or another (whether it be separation anxiety or perhaps not liking being kenneled) he, over time, had ruined about 6 of our kennel doors by bending the steel to get out. He didn’t destroy anything else in the facility-didn’t even break into the other dogs’ bags of food. So my boss became fed up and took him back to the shelter, deeming him “unadoptable” because of his “horrible separation anxiety causing him to destroy anything he can”
Needless to say, I was absolutely furious!!!!
The shelter gave him a week to live-because of him tearing open kennel doors (even at the shelter) they didn’t think it would be likely for him to be adopted. Of course I would not stand for this-I contacted as many people as I could, but most of my friends, being in college, could not have a dog. Eventually, my boyfriend’s best friend’s ex girlfriend saw a bulletin we had posted on myspace. She lived 6 hours away from us, but as soon as she’d heard about the entire ordeal she got my phone number from him and contacted me.
My boss was reluctant to tell me where he was. We knew he had to have been in one of the local shelters because at work, his information in the computer system had his name as “Cleveland City Kennels Fawster” She was so upset whenever I would ask her a question, saying “Kaetlyn! I do NOT care right now and he CANNOT go to a home!” Ohhhh the nerve she had! This girl looked up and contacted every kennel in the city, and when she couldn’t locate him that way, she drove 6 hours out here, the same day, and visited all of them-eventually finding him under a different name at a local shelter.
He’s now at a lovely home with her, and has never shown any signs of separation anxiety since the day she brought him home.