Past, present & future: for the animals!

My last blog post, in June, suggested that after a summer time-out, I would pick up again around Labor Day.  But I didn’t do that, mainly because by then, I had realized that after eight years of researching and writing AnimalBeat II (with nearly 300 posts) on top of three years producing (the original) AnimalBeat (animalbeat.blogspot.com), with nearly 440 posts, I was blogged out!  

It's time for me to find different ways to advocate for animals and therefore, time for my blog to end – which happens with this post.

What’s a blog post about animals without a few links to more information about animals?  So here they come . . .

First of all, this 2-minute video about an animal I especially love: an elephant baby who’s tired and hungry, and lets his mom and the world know how he feels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zICTe8smK-4

Then, aware of how bird numbers are diminishing, disastrously so, a journalist and farm-owner decided to “kill” his farm to help birds.  This article describes why and how.   

Meadowlark

https://tinyurl.com/5n8zt9d7

Next, something I’ll keep track of (and hope you will too): The Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which is described as “the only US Federal law that regulates the treatment of (certain) animals in research, teaching, testing, exhibition, transport, and by dealers.” 

This law has been amended numerous times since its passage in 1966 (as humans become more humane, I like to think!).  In fact, it was growing outrage over a stolen dog’s tragic experience that helped foster AWA.   

An excellent overview of this law, as it gradually became more humanely inclusionary, is included in the fall issue of All Animals, from the Humane Society of the US. 

https://www.humanesociety.org/news/animalwelfareact

Jersey 

Since no blog post of mine would be complete without a report on my dear little cat, Jersey Summers (soon to mark his second year in my family): he’s just great -- a rescue cat himself, he has in fact taken a leading role in rescuing me!  With physical impairments that don’t hold him back, he is a model for me, by living his best life: companionable, playful, loving -- and loved.  

Finally, I hope you will follow, join and contribute to the countless worthy activities of the Animal Protection League of NJ (APLNJ.org), the only state-based statewide organization whose members have been so admirably effective in their work for animal welfare for more than 40 years.  

The same goes for media news about animals, both domestic and wild: “Elephants, chickens and pigs; pangolins, whales, tigers and sharks . . . and beloved pets of all kinds.”  Make that your mantra too -- so

Pangolin

much to learn, so many to help! 

My thanks to those who unstintingly helped with AnimalBeat II technical problems.  And to those who shared the blog, whether talking it up, sending links to other “animal people” or mounting posts for them to read. 

Most of all, thanks to everyone who has read this blog: For the animals!

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