Top 15 Low Cost & No Cost Ideas You Can Do To Help Animals

In these tough economic times you may think there is nothing you can do to help animals in the St. Louis area, well you thought wrong! Here is a top 15 list of low cost and no cost ideas of things you can do to help animals.

15. Create a link on your email signature that takes readers to your favorite shelter site and helps create awareness.

14. Join the Puppy Mill protest that occurs most weekends in Chesterfield and St.Peters. Contact: leannefritsch@yahoo.com

13. Call authorities if you suspect a pet is being abused or if you find out information about dog fighting in your area.

12. Never advertise a dog or cat as "free" in a classified ad. People pretend to be loving families who actually take these animals and sell them to research facilities or use them as bait for dog fighting. Always charge a nominal fee and do a home visit before letting your pet go with someone.

11. Join the Missouri Alliance for Animal legislation and be a part of the legal process to make Missouri a better place for pets. http://www.maal.org/index.asp

10. Click daily on the website on the right of my blog which donates .6 bowls of food for every click and then vote for your favorite shelter thru July 29, 2009 where they can Win up to $20,000 (Put these in your Favorites)

9. Clean out your closet and drop off the clothes and shoes at one of the Carol House furniture stores(One near Page and Lindbergh,the other near 44 and 141) The donation funds free and low cost spay/neuters thru OpsSpot.

8. Cut coupons for free pet treats and products out of the weekend paper. Once a month donate the items to your favorite shelter. Just last week I was able to get 3 boxes of kitten chow free!

7. Donate old towels, sheets and blankets to your shelter, they can always use them. Most also need newspaper.

6. Sign up for a free Schnucks escript card(available at the courtesy counter) then register the card for you favorite shelter. Every time you make a purchase at Schnucks and show your card, Schnucks donates money to your shelter.

5. Have your kids(or yourself) set up a lemonade stand, bake sale or garage sale and donate the proceeds to help build a new shelter in St.Louis City http://animalhousefund.org or the new Jefferson County Shelter http://newjcac.org .

4. Make sure your pet is microchipped and ALWAYS wearing a collar with an ID tag.

3. Volunteer to walk dogs and pet cats at your local shelter or be a foster parent to a homeless dog or cat through a local rescue group.

2. ADOPT, never buy, a pet.

And the number one thing you can do to help St.Louis area animals.......

SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PET!!!!!

Please forward to everyone in your contact list and lets make Missouri known for being the number one pet rescue state not the number one state for puppy mills!
rescue:http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fgroups%252Fneedrescue%252F"ADOPT A PET AND SAVE A LIFE"