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Everyday Things to Help Animals |
- Get your dog or cat spayed or neutered.
- Put ID tags on pets.
- Recycle - it saves wild animals' Habitat.
- Learn about animals before Adopting them.
- Save farm animals. Eat a veggie hotdog or garden burger for lunch today.
- Report stray animals to Animal Control.
- Don't litter or let your pets do it. Clean up after them.
- Keep your cats indoors, especially at night.
- Don't give animals as gifts.
- Play with your animals everyday.
- Eat organic foods, foods that are grown without poisons that pollute animals' habitat.
- Make sure your pets are groomed - nail, teeth and fur.
- Give your pets plenty of toys and exercise.
- Plant Native plants for wild animals' food and shelter.
- Treat rabbits as house pets—bring them inside.
- Take your pets to the Veterinarian regularly.
- Leave wildlife (insects, frogs, lizards) in the wild.
- Ask an adult to call animal control if you see a stray dog or cat.
- Shoot with a camera, not with a gun.
- Adopt animals from shelters. Do not buy them from pet stores.
- Learn how to act around stray animals.
- Hold animals gently.
- Give pet rodents, rabbits and guinea pigs cozy houses in their cages.
- Visit your local Animal Shelter.
- Keep your dog on a leash when you are walking him.
- Get help for injured and Orphaned wild animals.
- Don't keep wildlife as pets.
- Learn dog and cat body language.
- If your animal must live in a cage, let him or her out to play often.
- Go see circuses that don't use wild animal acts.
- Give your pets soft warm beds.
- Give your dogs and cats good healthy foods.
- Give your cat a tall scratching post.
- Rainforest is cleared to raise cows. Save the animals in the rainforest by not eating beef.
- Teach your pet rabbit to use the litter box.
- Put baby birds back in their nests.
- Teach other people about spaying and neutering.
- Give your dog healthy snacks to keep her teeth clean.
- Read books about how to care for your pets.
- Start an animal club at your school.
- Teach others how to care for their pets.
- Hang things in the window so birds don't fly into them.
- Give your cat high perches and places to climb.
- Build a bat house.
- Ask teachers about alternatives to Dissection.
- Keep poisons like antifreeze away from animals.
- Collect toys and food for the animals at a local shelter.
- Use recycled products.
- Ask your local shelter about humane rat and mice traps.
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