The ASPCA would not be necessary if the demand for "pets" didn't exist
to the extent that it does now. Many people who purchase pets in a
thoughtless manner never really considering the full picture of they do not plan properly. Perhaps buy a dog for a
child, then because of bad planning, no knowledge of the cost of the
pet, not thinking about regulations in the apartment or condo,
nieghborhood they live they are forced to discard the pet. Many may try
to give away the pet but with so many pets already in existence and put
to death at animal shelters the pet get's discarded at a park somewhere
or in a strange nieghbor hood, to be taunted by school children at the
nearby school, when the pet is looking for food or becoming a victim of
abuse etc..
These things would never happen if the demand for
pets was reduced. Institutions like the ASPCA would not need to exist.
Animal rights groups would not need to exist if the public was educated
properly and instead of buying pets thoughtlessly decided to put the
money to good use saving the life of an orphan.
This page lists (blank number) of different pet charities that would not be necessary if pet ownership were more closely regulated and people were educated about responsible pet ownership.
Pets Charity List at www.entirelypets.com
Thursday
Pope Francis affirms same ideas as Kids Not Dogs in a recent speech.
In a recent speech Pope Francis states Opting for pets over children is selfish and 'takes away our humanity.'
Link to article here https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/05/europe/pope-dogs-cats-kids-intl/index.html
Monday
Want to change the world? Don't own a pet. Help a child instead.
Want to change the world? Make it a better place? Want to feel like you've really done something good? Don't spend money on a pet. Instead, give that money to improve the life of a child. If you already own a pet make a pledge it will be your last. Donate the monthly cost of a new pet to a children's charity of your choice. Even half of the average cost, just $30 a month, makes a huge difference in the life of a child in a poor country. If you've been thinking about getting a dog or cat pledge to donate to a children's charity instead. This decision can literally saves lives.
The amount of money spent on pets per month in the USA could easily feed, educate and support all at risk children in the poorest nations of the world. It's estimated that the US pet industry grossed over 60 billions dollars in 2016. Recent statistics show that the 80% of all people live on less than $10 a day, many, quite a bit less. Countries in Africa and those in South East Asia have a majority of their population at or below the poverty level. Many South East Asian families live on less than two hundred dollars a month.
The US pet industry generated over 60 billion dollars in 2016. What if even one quarter of this money was put toward helping children and the poor? Can you imagine the difference it would make? How many forgotten children could be given hope and a stable life? Yet many of us in rich western countries casually own pets only to neglect them when they get old, leave them alone all day and spend thousands of dollars each year on them and for what? Why?
The average cost of owning a cat in the USA is between $7,700 and $18,300.00 a year. For dogs the average price is $20 to $100 a month. The USA spends many billions of dollars on pet's while children in countless nations around the world are starving and suffering. Imagine what even a small percentage of that money could do for a child with no parents, no home or abandoned to under funded orphanages that struggle to operate in some of the most sordid places on earth.
Now imagine the feeling of knowing that you've genuinely made a difference in the life of a little boy or girl left abandon in a world. Helping a kid in a place where poverty is rampant and street children sell themselves just to eat. You can make the difference between misery and happiness, health or sickness, between life and death in an innocent child’s life. Here's how.
If you currently own a pet, make a pledge that it will be your last. Use the money you would have spent on a new pet to save a child. Average cost per month to support a pet falls between $20 to $100. You can pledge all, half or whatever you'd like to one of the orphanages listed here on kidsnotdogs.com
Think of it. The money you spend each month on your dog or cat could save the life of an child who might otherwise lead a life of misery or worse yet, die. Give. Share in the feeling of doing something truly good, of knowing you've brought hope to the life of a child who might otherwise be forgotten. Don't own a pet, instead give to children.
Please visit our suggested charities page for a short list of good Kids not Dogs approved organizations that will take your donation directly. Donate what you would ordinarily spend on a pet to the children's charity of your choice.
Please feel free to give us your story here. We await your comments. Thank you for considering our Kids not Dogs pledge to help a needy child.
Click here for the Kids not Dogs story.
Statistics of world child poverty
© 2017 8x8x8
The amount of money spent on pets per month in the USA could easily feed, educate and support all at risk children in the poorest nations of the world. It's estimated that the US pet industry grossed over 60 billions dollars in 2016. Recent statistics show that the 80% of all people live on less than $10 a day, many, quite a bit less. Countries in Africa and those in South East Asia have a majority of their population at or below the poverty level. Many South East Asian families live on less than two hundred dollars a month.
The US pet industry generated over 60 billion dollars in 2016. What if even one quarter of this money was put toward helping children and the poor? Can you imagine the difference it would make? How many forgotten children could be given hope and a stable life? Yet many of us in rich western countries casually own pets only to neglect them when they get old, leave them alone all day and spend thousands of dollars each year on them and for what? Why?
The average cost of owning a cat in the USA is between $7,700 and $18,300.00 a year. For dogs the average price is $20 to $100 a month. The USA spends many billions of dollars on pet's while children in countless nations around the world are starving and suffering. Imagine what even a small percentage of that money could do for a child with no parents, no home or abandoned to under funded orphanages that struggle to operate in some of the most sordid places on earth.
Now imagine the feeling of knowing that you've genuinely made a difference in the life of a little boy or girl left abandon in a world. Helping a kid in a place where poverty is rampant and street children sell themselves just to eat. You can make the difference between misery and happiness, health or sickness, between life and death in an innocent child’s life. Here's how.
If you currently own a pet, make a pledge that it will be your last. Use the money you would have spent on a new pet to save a child. Average cost per month to support a pet falls between $20 to $100. You can pledge all, half or whatever you'd like to one of the orphanages listed here on kidsnotdogs.com
Think of it. The money you spend each month on your dog or cat could save the life of an child who might otherwise lead a life of misery or worse yet, die. Give. Share in the feeling of doing something truly good, of knowing you've brought hope to the life of a child who might otherwise be forgotten. Don't own a pet, instead give to children.
Please visit our suggested charities page for a short list of good Kids not Dogs approved organizations that will take your donation directly. Donate what you would ordinarily spend on a pet to the children's charity of your choice.
Please feel free to give us your story here. We await your comments. Thank you for considering our Kids not Dogs pledge to help a needy child.
Click here for the Kids not Dogs story.
Statistics of world child poverty
© 2017 8x8x8
Tuesday
Kids not Dogs the story
Kids not Dogs is an organization dedicated to to improving the lives of orphaned, disenfranchised, less fortunate, refugee, at risk and poor children. We encourage giving to childrens charities instead of owning dogs or cats. We seek to advance childrens charities by encouraging people to give instead of spending to keep pets. We see the enormous potential that money usually spent on pets could have if it went to improve the lives of children.
Fact: The estimated gross revenue of the US pet industry for 2016 is over 60 billion dollars.
From the founder of Kids not Dogs.
I am a semi-retired Internet systems engineer and musician. The bulk of my career was spent in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area which is also where I grew up and was educated. Toward the end of my career I worked in the South of Market area of San Francisco now widely know for it's dot com businesses which flourish in the old warehouses and factories of days gone by. In about the last 20 years this area has undergone a lot of redevelopment and is now becoming a vibrant part of the city with many new condo and residential buildings.
Working in the South of Market area for 2 years I'd often take walking breaks to clear my head and stay in shape. One striking feature of every walk was the unavoidable smell of dog urine wafting up from the sidewalks. It was obvious what was going on. Several large condo buildings were in this neighborhood housing urban professionals many or whom owned dogs. It began to trouble me, I imagined the literally hundreds of animals left alone each day. What little attention they got was probably only during nights and weekends. These animals were spending most of their lives inside and alone! When they did get to go outside they must have been close to bursting waiting all day to relieve themselves along the sidewalks. I felt the suffering and realized the dysfunction of it all. Hundreds of animals urinating on the city sidewalks each and everyday cooped up in small San Francisco apartments for most of their lives.
Even when I was a boy my own family treated our dog much the same way. We had a larger black Labrador acquired when we lived in Walnut Creek, CA. At the time the dog was 2 years old and it spent the majority of it's time in the back yard where it could live fairly comfortably, run around, chase birds and do what dogs like to do. When my father got a new job we moved to the peninsula where our new house had no back yard due to it's location on a steep hillside. As a result our dog spent many years living on a small walking deck and in the garage, sometimes inside when the family was home. This used to really bother me as the dog was house broken and would resist relieving itself while on the deck and in the garage. It would holds it's business as long as it could but would, on many occassions let go in the garage. Seeing the feces and smelling urine every other day was just grotesque and I can't understand why my parents let it go on. It was distressing to me. It angered me and I remember talking about it on serveral occasions but nothing was done. During those years I used to walk the dog as much as I could because I knew deep down this dog was suffering. Each day it lived mostly alone in a small area, not being able to run free, relieve itself when it wanted to and have a decent dog life.
Having travelled over the years I've seen the suffering of the poor in nations like The Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. What has always stayed with me is the experience of seeing the suffering of poor children in theses nations and the stories of exploitation, abuse and hopelessness endured by so many.
It was on one of theses many walking breaks that it dawned on me. Pet ownership in America has reached a level of dysfunction to the extent that major city streets reek of pet urine and feces. A level to where pet's are left alone for the greater part of thier lives only to be "enjoyed" for a few hours each day. The only chance for them to get out and really be dogs is during the short walks they may get once or twice a day. Later theses same pets get further neglected or abandoned once they reach old age. They may become disabled, blind or debilitated and become more of a burden on their owners. It's became obvious to me this is inhumane and insensitive. There is a lot wrong with how a great many people own pets; especially pets housed in a city condo or apartment. There are some who understand a pet's needs and provide a good and wholesome home. But I fear that the more I may look into how pets are owned the more I'll uncover how poorly they live and how much distress it causes the animals - how wasteful pet ownership really has gotten.
What if people came to realize that they are misusing their money in owning a pet? What if they might understand that they could get much greater satisfaction and joy in their lives if they didn't spend money on a pet, but instead really put their money to good use by giving it to a childrens charity They could sponsor an orphaned or disadvantaged child instead of supporting a pet they struggle to care for for and really make an impact in the world. What a difference could be made if all that money spent on pets could go to help poor children instead. These were my thoughts and that's how Kids not Dogs was born.
© 2017 8x8x8
Fact: The estimated gross revenue of the US pet industry for 2016 is over 60 billion dollars.
From the founder of Kids not Dogs.
I am a semi-retired Internet systems engineer and musician. The bulk of my career was spent in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area which is also where I grew up and was educated. Toward the end of my career I worked in the South of Market area of San Francisco now widely know for it's dot com businesses which flourish in the old warehouses and factories of days gone by. In about the last 20 years this area has undergone a lot of redevelopment and is now becoming a vibrant part of the city with many new condo and residential buildings.
Working in the South of Market area for 2 years I'd often take walking breaks to clear my head and stay in shape. One striking feature of every walk was the unavoidable smell of dog urine wafting up from the sidewalks. It was obvious what was going on. Several large condo buildings were in this neighborhood housing urban professionals many or whom owned dogs. It began to trouble me, I imagined the literally hundreds of animals left alone each day. What little attention they got was probably only during nights and weekends. These animals were spending most of their lives inside and alone! When they did get to go outside they must have been close to bursting waiting all day to relieve themselves along the sidewalks. I felt the suffering and realized the dysfunction of it all. Hundreds of animals urinating on the city sidewalks each and everyday cooped up in small San Francisco apartments for most of their lives.
Even when I was a boy my own family treated our dog much the same way. We had a larger black Labrador acquired when we lived in Walnut Creek, CA. At the time the dog was 2 years old and it spent the majority of it's time in the back yard where it could live fairly comfortably, run around, chase birds and do what dogs like to do. When my father got a new job we moved to the peninsula where our new house had no back yard due to it's location on a steep hillside. As a result our dog spent many years living on a small walking deck and in the garage, sometimes inside when the family was home. This used to really bother me as the dog was house broken and would resist relieving itself while on the deck and in the garage. It would holds it's business as long as it could but would, on many occassions let go in the garage. Seeing the feces and smelling urine every other day was just grotesque and I can't understand why my parents let it go on. It was distressing to me. It angered me and I remember talking about it on serveral occasions but nothing was done. During those years I used to walk the dog as much as I could because I knew deep down this dog was suffering. Each day it lived mostly alone in a small area, not being able to run free, relieve itself when it wanted to and have a decent dog life.
Having travelled over the years I've seen the suffering of the poor in nations like The Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. What has always stayed with me is the experience of seeing the suffering of poor children in theses nations and the stories of exploitation, abuse and hopelessness endured by so many.
It was on one of theses many walking breaks that it dawned on me. Pet ownership in America has reached a level of dysfunction to the extent that major city streets reek of pet urine and feces. A level to where pet's are left alone for the greater part of thier lives only to be "enjoyed" for a few hours each day. The only chance for them to get out and really be dogs is during the short walks they may get once or twice a day. Later theses same pets get further neglected or abandoned once they reach old age. They may become disabled, blind or debilitated and become more of a burden on their owners. It's became obvious to me this is inhumane and insensitive. There is a lot wrong with how a great many people own pets; especially pets housed in a city condo or apartment. There are some who understand a pet's needs and provide a good and wholesome home. But I fear that the more I may look into how pets are owned the more I'll uncover how poorly they live and how much distress it causes the animals - how wasteful pet ownership really has gotten.
What if people came to realize that they are misusing their money in owning a pet? What if they might understand that they could get much greater satisfaction and joy in their lives if they didn't spend money on a pet, but instead really put their money to good use by giving it to a childrens charity They could sponsor an orphaned or disadvantaged child instead of supporting a pet they struggle to care for for and really make an impact in the world. What a difference could be made if all that money spent on pets could go to help poor children instead. These were my thoughts and that's how Kids not Dogs was born.
© 2017 8x8x8
Monday
Suggested charities. Click the links below to visit chlidrens charity websites.
Saturday
The case against pet ownership.
The case against pet ownership.
Most of us have lives that are constantly getting busier. We try to find ways to make the best use of what little time we have. Between work, family and our personal lives there isn't much left. Keeping a pet is just one more thing that gets in the way of our fast paced life styles. They become a waste of time, money and energy. Giving to charity makes so much more sense than spending on pets. The brief comfort and companionship from a pet becomes meaningless compared to the lasting satisfaction giving to a good children's charity can bring.
Here are some good reasons to not own a pet. For most people it doesn't make good sense.
Most of us have lives that are constantly getting busier. We try to find ways to make the best use of what little time we have. Between work, family and our personal lives there isn't much left. Keeping a pet is just one more thing that gets in the way of our fast paced life styles. They become a waste of time, money and energy. Giving to charity makes so much more sense than spending on pets. The brief comfort and companionship from a pet becomes meaningless compared to the lasting satisfaction giving to a good children's charity can bring.
Here are some good reasons to not own a pet. For most people it doesn't make good sense.
- Pet costs are substantial and will increase as a pet ages. Total cost as high as $18,000 for life of a larger dog.
- Rent deposits are much more for pet owners. As much as double a regular non-pet deposit. Many times that deposit will be kept due to damage and owner can claim is done by a pet on move out.
- When traveling care for animal has to be arranged. Expensive pet hotels or shelters paid for. Many pet owners asking for pet sitting can be a burden on friends, if you have any left after awhile.
- If you have a house, generally the yard and interior has to be modified to be pet proof.
- Home will always have odor from pet oil and urine. Carpets wear faster as pets walk and run around on them. You non pet owner friends will smell it every time they walk in the door.
- If the pet is bought for your kids know that most children lose interest just like they do with new toys. Responsibility will most always end up being the you the parent.
- Pets are a burden on the general public: The cause noise, pet waste, extra garbage, smell. Think about that yapping dog you always hear in your neighborhood. Many sleepless nights for some people.
- Have to spend time each day for walks, feeding, water and clean up. Following your dog around with a plastic glove waiting to pickup poop? Really? Since when was that fun. It's down right silly really.
- Pets age and they become an ever increasing burden. Good pet ownership is like having a child. Care needs to be given for the entire life of pet including possible high cost vet bills.
- Good pet care takes a lot of time. Owners can expect to spend 1 to 2 hours each day of their lives taking care of a pet.
- Guests in your home may have allergies or dislike the pets attention as many dogs shed and slobber. You may find you have fewer friends wanting to visit if you have a dog. You may be limiting the number of good quality friends you can have if you already own and problem pet. Some are temperamental, bite, jump up on people and are disturbing.
- The possibility the pet will be lost. How many lost dog or cat signs have you seen in your life? How many of them ever our found? Many lost dogs and cats wind up in the pound and eventually put to sleep or roaming the streets with out proper care, eventually dead.
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