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How My Passions Impact The World

Did you ever think about how small things can do a lot? For instance, donating one bag of pet food keeps an animal eating for a little while. Animals are something I am extremely passionate about. Animals are God's gifts to us. We as humans, were never meant to harm them, but treat them with respect, to be their voice. There are so many animals out there that don't have homes. Some are even beaten. What I w ould like to do is save animals. Animals are my passion.

There are so many pets in shelters right this second. About 2.7 million pets die every year. One dies every 11 seconds. Most of the animals that die are the offspring of pets whose owners were too lazy to have their pets fixed. The pet population right now is way overpopulated due to people not fixing their pets. Personally, I don't think you should have a pet if you can't give it what it needs, for instance, getting fixed. How sad is that? Think about this. Let's say you never got your pet fixed. Then eventually your pet had puppies, and you would have to give some away. So when that pet got adopted, another one in a shelter died. That person could have saved an animal in a shelter, but instead they bought it from you. I already helped with this type of situation because my pets were taken care of a long time ago.

Imagine if owners weren't so lazy. If that was the case, the animal population wouldn't be so overpopulated. What if there was something we could do, something that would change the world forever. What if we got the animals in shelters fixed? I know some people are thinking, well, if they were all fixed then eventually there wouldn't be any pets. What could happen is all the shelters fix the animals with money we would get from fundraisers. Once the pet population decreases to where we are not killing 2.7 million a year, then shelters could stop, but start it up again when needed. If we don't do something about it, then the pet population is going to keep increasing. Let's save these pets that need our help.

Have you ever walked into pet stores, and seen those dogs and cats so happy? They have fresh water and food. They'll stay in the pet store until they get adopted. Now think about the pets in shelters. The ones who might die before they get adopted. They don't have as much time to live. Something I would like to do is have fundraisers that could raise money for these animals who need a better life. I could use the money to expand the shelter that way more could live and less could die. Every pet deserves a home, just like every human deserves a life. I would really like to help out at a Humane Society fundraiser to help get the animals a safe and happy home.

I strongly believe that people should buy a pet from a shelter. Pet store pets should get adopted, but first lets help the animals that in are more danger. A really inspirational quote by Anatole France is, "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." If you ever went to the Dunedin farmers market on Saturdays than you would know they almost always bring pets from shelters. The shelters bring these pets to get adopted so someone might see a dog and want to take it home. With my passion for animals, I want to bring pets to all sorts of places. The more people see the animals, the more they'll want to help them. You don't actually start to care until you're put in a position where you witness it.

Let's come together and save these pets who can't save themselves. They need a voice. Let's fix our pets, let's adopt pets from shelters and not from pet stores, and let's raise money to save these animals. We can do this. It seems hard, but with a little work at a time, we could be taking a big step in making our world a better place. So if your pet is not fixed, than go get it fixed. Otherwise you're just killing the animals that I want to save. They deserve better, so lets give it them.