Sunday, July 13, 2008
PSA For The Animals
Summer is on us and it gets hot...hoooooot where some of us live. Here in Miami it has been downright horrible with the heat lately. Mid 90s, factor in the humidity and it’s pretty miserable.
Now, imagine wearing a fur coat in all of that, a fur coat you cannot remove. And you have no air conditioning. This is what the Humane Society of Miami is going through right now. Unfortunately, their air conditioning system said, “Dudes, it’s too hot here, I’m leaving” and left hundreds of dogs and cats with no reprieve from the scorching temperatures. They need help. They need donations from the community so that they can get a new air conditioning system. Right now they have fans set up and are leaving doors and windows open but it’s still HOT in there and the animals are having a rough go.
Kids, I don’t do many requests for donations but I’m begging you, all, to help out here. Even if you don’t live in Miami, you can still help. They are trying to raise $80,000 for a new system so that the dogs and cats can once again have something of comfort. It’s bad enough these animals are sitting in cages wondering if they’re going to die or get adopted...why add more trauma to that experience?
I don’t care if you only have $5 to spare, donate it. If you love animals, please, please go to their site:
and do what you can. Even if they get the funds needed for the new system by the time you donate, you can still help out for kibbles and blankets and litter and other overhead costs for these animals. And you can also help the Humane Society in your area or any animal shelter in your area. Maybe you can’t adopt right now, but a little bit of money from many people goes a long way.
Trust me guys, I work in this heat all day long and it can be rough. Please help. Thanks kids.
(Thank you Amanda for letting me know.)
update The Humane Society of Miami has a Florida Animal Friend MySpace page. Here are some facts from that page in case you are still deciding if you are going to donate:
At present, approximately 800,000 dogs and cats are killed each year due to overpopulation.
-> Every day in Florida, 2,191 homeless pets are killed.
-> Every hour in Florida, 91 homeless pets are killed.
-> In the minute it takes you to read this, 1.5 homeless pets will be killed.
Not only have I donated, I also had to renew my tags for my car and went ahead and got an “Animal Friend” license plate. It absolutely costs more to renew with this license plate than it would with a common plate. The proceeds, $25 extra dollars for the special plate and tags, go towards spaying and neutering programs here. I can only do so much. I’ve adopted two stray cats that people either dumped off or were born out here because people didn’t spay or neuter, I’ve got 4 kittens from the cat I rescued after someone dumped her off and I have a plethora of strays I’m currently feeding as I’m trying to win their trust so that I can either a) get the fixed and them bring them back out, (no one here minds them so much as they do that people are not getting their pets fixed) or b) for the youngest not quite feral cats, bring them to the Humane Society in hopes they get adopted. I’m going through massive amounts of cat litter each week and one giant 20 pound bag of food every. single. week. I am not rich. If I can do this much, I know you guys can donate something. Again, please help.
It’s NOT the animals’ faults.
