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“Animals Are Feeling Beings Too” joined Facebook
Hello followers!
I just joined Facebook. I wanted to share it with you and ask that you please “Like” my page. Also, feel free to share my Facebook and my Blog with people you know. You will be helping animals by doing this. The more people who are aware of issues, the more we can all help make a difference!
Here is the link to my page: Animals Are Feeling Beings Too/Facebook
I plan to post more often from now on (on Facebook and my Blog)!
Thank you!!! Thanks for caring about animals!
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Red Rovers Reading Program
I did this training online earlier this year. This is an awesome thing. Its teaching children empathy for animals! If you’re an educator you know this also teaches empathy to humans. Studies have shown connections.
If have teacher friends, share this with them. The more schools this program is in, the more the world will start treating animals with the respect and care God intended for them. The more we will be a part of making a change in the world.
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Start Young in Teaching Compassion to Animals
Below are a few links to the game for children “Toca Pet Doctor.” In this game there are a bunch of animals that are waiting for their turn to be helped at the veterinarian’s office. What happened to them?
I have personally used this game in computer classes that I teach to preschoolers. The children love helping them! I love using this game as an opportunity to discuss caring for animals! We talked about how these animals may have gotten hurt, how this makes them feel, and how it could have been prevented. For example, there is a bird who’s foot is stuck in gum. We discussed how if someone would not have thrown their gum on the ground (littering), the bird would not have gotten stuck in it. Then we discussed how the gum should have been thrown in the garbage.
After the children play “veterinarian” and help the animals, the animals are given treats that the children can feed to them. This teaches which foods each type of animal eats.
For a pretty straight forward game that’s not hard to figure out, there are so many teachable moments in it! Most of all “Caring for Animals.” After all, they are feeling beings that get sick and hurt just like we do!
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When Will We Learn
I sat down on the couch on a Friday night and began channel surfing to find something to watch when I came across a new show called “Hannibal”. I saw less than 30 seconds and was disgusted. Why do they keep making these types of shows? Hannibal, CSI, Revenge (doesn’t the name say it all?), etc. These types of shows make me wonder if we are giving the bad guys new ideas. Why in the world would we want to do that?
I work at a childcare and preschool and I have been told there is a toddler who use a play knife from the housekeeping area and pretends to stab other toddlers with it. I have seen children pretending to shoot guns. I’ve had a school ager tell me he wants to stab his teacher and I’ve seen children hitting stuffed animal toys. Yes, it is just a stuffed animal, but children are role playing when they play with toys. These particular children were playing veterinarian, so why did they want to hit the stuffed animal? Would if it was a real animal? Their pet at home?
As an animal lover, I have read facts based on studies that many adults who abuse or even have killed someone start their violent
tendencies first by harming animals then later move onto harming humans. It is said that these facts are not given the proper attention they should. If they did, maybe these people with violent tendencies would be helped early on and not continue on with their violence. Here are some links that will take you to some of these fact based articles.
Animal Legal Defense Fund
People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals
People Helping Animals
Huffington Post
Are people born violent? Is it the environment they grow up in? Is it seeing tv shows like Hannibal, movies, or video games that teach them this? Desensitize them? To people and animals. These are important things to think about and pay attention too.
Even if you don’t love animals, pay attention anyway, because
animal abuse will eventually lead to human violence.
When will we learn?
Animals Are Feeling Beings Too 