World Animal Day - 4th October

WWF:
http://wwf.org/

Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/

Born Free Foundation (saving lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, dolphins, elephants):
http://www.bornfree.org.uk/

PETA Animal Protection Foundation:
http://www.peta.org/

ARKive program - Online Noah's Ark by Sir David Attenborough:
http://www.arkive.org/

Saving endangered big cats:
http://www.bigcatrescue.org/

Saving snow leopards:
http://snowleopard.org/

On fourth October we celebrate the world day of the kindest and most loyal friends of humans. This time it might come to our mind that animals deserve love and respect; we are responsible for their lives and welfare, after all, they are just as living beings as ourselves: they can feel, they can think, the difference is only that they do not express their thoughts by words. Animals make our lives more lovely and greater - who would not know how much affection is there in a heart of a purring, lithe cat, who would not have heard about the unprecedented loyalty and selflessness of a dog (which can be never got from a human)?

Fourth October - besides the birthday of my favourite Harry Potter character, Minerva McGonagall - is the feast of the patron saint of animals, the nature lover, Francis of Assisi, which was celebrated in 1931 in Italy for the first time. Its original purpose was the protection of the wild animals - nowadays, it is highly needed to pay attention to this subject, just like the keeping of livestock, or laboratory animals (it is better not to think about the circumstances which livestock have to live under).
By now, the protection of the pets turned into a great significance, too, maybe it became the most important part of the feast of 4th October.

Other world days of animal protection:
World Day for Laboratory Animals: 24th April
Day of Birds and Trees: 10th May
Homeless Animals Day: 16th August
World Farm Animal Day: 2nd October (the latter date is the birthday of the vegetarian Mahátma Gandhi)

Fortunately, torturing of animals is considered as a crime in most of the countries. It is also qualified as torturing if a person drives away a quadruped from their home because he or she lost interest in it.

Don't forget, we can also do a lot for our furry, feathery, scaly friends:

• By civilian initiation and cooperation we might organize "pet stroking" days in our habitations (during such events, lonely cats and dogs can find a owner)
• those animals who became superfluous, gift away via advertisements of magazines (and not wing them, like many people does)
• have them given the obligatory or not obligatory vaccinations (in cats's cases, too!)
• if we have our pets castrate, we did not have to think about what to do to the unwanted increment, less stray animal would be turned into the streets
• we might support homeless animal rescues, animal protection foundations
• we do not wear clothes made of fur
• we place a bird feeder to our window or garden during the months of the winter
• if we want to have our own pet, we might adopt one from a rescue
• if we experience any abuse - maybe in a case of a "reptile show" -, report it at the autonomy of the town which is represented as the location of the firm.