If you say you don’t have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?

God‘s visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. … For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, “nobodies” who failed to leave their names.

Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break.” It does the trick. He laughs. “Whose cat?” “My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?” “Let me guess, she was framed. She’s innocent.

If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

I’m so grateful that I’m able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I’m truly making a difference.

I’m an ambassador for Best Friends [Animal Society], an incredible organization that’s devoted to the welfare of animals – in particular, trying to help make every animal shelter a no-kill shelter. My two dogs were rescues, and I’m a firm believer in finding every dog or cat a home.

(Sebastian) “See, there you go. You’re always looking at me like that.” “Like what?” “Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my cigarettes with orphans.

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in “animal shelters”.