Be Kind To Animals. . .and to Sandy Week!

Wow, this is a great week!

It is, after all, Be Kind to Animals Week, Cinco De Mayo, My Gotcha Day, Birthday, Catster Annifursary and Mother's Day All rolled into one week!

There is barely any time to take a mere 20-hour nap!

And we're just getting started!! Mistress has a lot going too, I guess. Thursday's her beepball game in front of 2,500 people including her Gram, Gramps and Aunt Sandy, Saturday she starts volunteering at that place with all the cats, the Feline Rescue, then, after she gets home, smelling of the scent of feline (not necessarily a bad smell, mind you), she's gonna ditch me and go to her Mom's for Mother's Day! I'll barely have time to de-odorize her!

Oh, and she got an 88 on one of her hardest courses, Nervous System,Sensory Organs and Endocrine System *falls over from exhaustion* How she did it, I'll never know. . .and uh I really don't care, but anyway. . .I don't even understand any of it!

On a more serious note: This week is Be Kind To Animals Week. I had Mistress join a group on Facebook, about stopping purrrsons from "crushing" animals, and one about stopping people from "skinning" animals! Humans can be so incredibly cruel!

She read about a lady who was holding her tortie cat, and petting her lovingly, then put her down on the ground and stepped on her kitty, crushing the kitty, on the face, with her stiletto shoe .. .on purpose!!!

One time she started to watch a video on YouTube, and then there was one today on another animal cruelty prevention site where people in China tied cats (in one video, in the other it was dogs) to a tree and skinned them alive!!

She couldn't even watch 30 seconds of it without bawling her head off and turning it off immediately.

Now, humans can be so great. After all, mommies, and daddies too, and little kids, take us in, feed us, clean our boxes, pet us, help us when we're sick, take us to the vet, think about us, write about us, make our Catster/Dogster/blogger/Facebook pages, and pretty much love us to death until we are at the Bridge. Once in a while twofers can get kinda annoying with their overexuberance, especially if it interupts a nice nap, but we love them so much too. All us four-leggers (even if cats don't act quite as affectionate as dogs) want to do is love humans, play with them, nuzzle and knead them, help lower their blood pressure, and just be there for them, and what do some sicko humans do?

What is my point, you ask? Well, here are a few things that even the smallest twofer can do to help animals, not only just on Be Kind to Animals Week, but all year through!

1) Speak out for animals
2) Report animal abuse
3) Appreciate wildlife
4) Adopt a pet from a shelter or rescue
5) Take care of their pets
Please visit American Humane's BKAW page for more information.