How do I get involved to protect animals?
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go volunteer at a local animal shelter
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Try Animal Control or the Board of Health.
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A good place to check for this information would be the local Humane Society or ASPCA...they police department in your town might also have some tips for you on what classes to take to achieve this degree.
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Save the Tiger Fund has a list of all the conservation agencies that are trying to help:\nhttp://www.savethetigerfund.org/Directory/tigersintrouble.htm\n\nI think there are a few Texas ranchers with tigers. They raise just about every big mammal on the exotic animal ranches in Texas. It's private land, and they have big ranches, so nobody tells them what to do or not do.
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Find out what the animal abuse laws are in the state where it happened and file a criminal complaint against the person.  File a petition at www.thepetitionsite.com with all the facts and have people sign it to give to the court or judge who tries the case.  Contact your local animal welfare group to help you with all of this.  Contact www.hsus.org or www.peta.org to see what they would recommend.
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Try a doggy/kitty day care that would incorporate walking services, training, kenneling and just a friendly environment.\n\nYou can maybe get training and references from volunteering at your local animal shelter.\n\nYour rates may need to be lower than the competition at first but after you get a few committed and satisfied customers you will be able to increase your rates.\n\nI don't know what your neighborhood allows, so you might want to check your zoning rules.\n\nI would pay good money if I could find someone reputable to take care of my animals and wouldn't just feed them crappy food and cage them up for hours on end.\n\nI think whatever you decide to do you'll excel, you stayed at a job for 11 yrs that speaks volume.\n\nStand out from the rest(which isn't that difficult) treat the animals well, and try to restrain from cages and cheap food.\n\nGood Luck!!
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Some good ideas already posted. I like to start dogs very early. A good hunting companion is well mannered. You must teach your pup to obey simple commands . Sit ! Stay ! Come ! Load up ! The way I do this is use small pieces of hot dogs and when the pup does what you want, reward him. With any hunting dog, it is very important for the dog to come to you when called. \n Contrary to what many believe, man is not the only thing that hunts for fun. Beagles love, really love to chase rabbits. You may wan to come home and the dog may want to hunt for another hour or so.\n You must also teach the dog not to chase other animals. If it starts to chase deer, or cats, or fox then it will be impossible to run rabbits with it. \n   Have fun !
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Start your own pet sitting/dog walking service...ask those ppl for donations and take the money you earn to save up to go to fla...you might also volunteer at the local shelter and put up flyers while your there and network with ohter animal lovers who might be able to help you...any dream worth living will take focus,commitment and effort on your part to come true..good luck!
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Animal lovers usually have some fur (like dog hair or cat hair) on their person. \nAnimal lovers don't buy into the propaganda of PETA...that makes them animal activists.\nAnimal lovers understand ecological systems and the need for man to intervene in some of these systems (ie. hunting deer or preserving predators like the cougar/florida panther)\nAnimal lovers know that when a pet has reached its caged capacity it is NOT humane to release it into precious ecosystems (ie. pythons in the Everglades)\nAnimal lovers know that sometimes we have to kill animals to preserve and protect animals\nAnimal lovers know that you have to dissect and collect  animals to learn more \nAnimal lovers can choose to bring their pets everywhere that pets are welcome, but they never leave their pets in the car.\n\nPhysical proof that you are an animal lover? Be kind to all animals, be aware of animals, respect animals, know that animals are supposed to be wild, but once domesticated should stay that way (unless wildlife rehab). \n\nIf you really want to show off that you are an animal lover, You can take your pets out with you (where acceptable).  You can make T-shirts with their pictures. You can buy t-shirts that have animals on them. You (as a zoologists) can start a shelter/rehab facility. YOu could have a tatoo that states: I love animals.\n\nOR\n\nYou could just show that you love animals by your kindness to them, by your knowledge about them, about their plights, and their food-chain, by educating the public about animals and how to take care of your pets, report animal abuse if you see it, don't tolerate the releasing of pets into the wild, ensure that your communtiy/state has laws and tough penalties that protect animals (from abuse)
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let me try:\n1)Save Plants to save Life.\n2)Protect plants and animals and protect yourself.
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You can buy a call of a wounded rabbit. If there are any in the area this should bremg them in.
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If you want to help people you could volunteer at a hospital or homeless shelter. If you want to help animals you could volunteer at your zoo. You can be a tour guide there or work with the animals. Get a job that is in your interest. start a website or create a company. do what you want to do!
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You don't say how old you are, but you would need to be at least 18 to get anywhere near wild animals. Sorry to say that in this country the chances of 'interacting' with chimps is virtually zero as in reality they are extremely dangerous and as highly intelligent animals decide for themselves who they like or don't like, on top of this, in general most zoos don't encourage that much interaction. John Aspinall's zoos - Howletts and Port Lympne are probably the exception.\n\nReally there are only two routes to working with apes in this country, one is becoming a zoo keeper and managing to get onto the primate section, the other is doing a relevant degree and then getting into primate research as a postgraduate - to do this you will need to aim to be the best student in your year and get one of the few studentships available in this area. Competition is really fierce.\n\nIf you are prepared to extend your interest to monkeys rather than great apes there might be more opportunities. You could sign on as a zoo volunteer, but there are usually waiting lists. Places such as the woolly monkey sanctuary in Devon are more specialist and may offer more chance. Again, postgraduate research opportunities do exist but competition will be hard.\n\nI know this all sounds rather negative but it is better to be truthful. You are one of thousands whose interest is in great apes and to get one of those vanishingly rare posts you need to work really hard in your chosen profession and be much better than of everyone else. \n\nOne other option is to go to the earthwatch site - www.earthwatch.org and see what they are offering in terms of primate research projects there. Be warned though this is expensive.\n\nI have worked in wildlife research and know that every time a primate job was advertised there was a flood of applicants.
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Protect and respect their habitats.  Help wildlife by building a bird feeder, composting, eliminating the use of pesticides and herbicides, etc.  In your garden use plants native to your area - do not introduce plants that are not native - they may disrupt the natural balance. \n\nPossibly one of the best things we can do is stop demanding so much of the world's resources, which, in one way or another, destroys wildlife habitat - increases global warming, destroys the rain forest, etc.  Use cloth reusable shopping bags to carry home groceries.  Buy at bulk food stores using much less packaging materials.  Recycle as much of what we use as possible - glass, soda cans, food cans, plastic containers, newsprint, etc.  Recycle toys, books, games, clothes, etc. by donating them to goodwill or Salvation Army, and shop for things you need at those stores.  Live a simpler, gentler life style.  \n\nHere are a few sites you may like to view.
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You can't prevent animal cruelty. Just like you can't prevent people from doing anything else. If people are going to be ***holes enough to be cruel to animals then they're going to do it regardless of what you try to do to prevent it.
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There are at least four methods for getting into this kind of work:\n1) doing the kinds of work you have done in previous jobs, but for an environment-related organization or business until you can move into this kind of position for the same employer;\n2) taking an internship closely related to what you want to do;\n3) volunteering until you can move into a paid position;\n4) starting out with AmeriCorp on this project:\nhttp://www.ecoemploy.com/jobs/service.html\n\nHere's an example of the first strategy. Let's say you have a background in finance, you would be able to take a Finance Manager position at the Alaska Conservation Foundation. Once there, you could be looking into jobs that entail the kind of work you're describing.\nhttp://www.ecoemploy.com/jobs/new-hampshire.html\n\nFor the second strategy, here's a listing for an internship. While they "prefer" someone with a biology degree, someone with great passion and self-education would certainly be considered:\nhttp://www.ecoemploy.com/jobs/connecticut.html\n\nAs for the third strategy, Idealist.org has a database of volunteer jobs related to the environment:\nhttp://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/SiteIndex/AssetSearch/search?areasOfFocus=16&assetTypes=VolunteerOpportunity&country=United%20States&fetchLimit=30&languageDesignation=en&onlyFetchAssetProperties=1&sid=61576672-184-fexLe&siteClassifierName=idealist&sortOrderings=modificationDate&startIndex=0&validStatusTypes=APPROVED&validStatusTypes=UNAPPROVED&validStatusTypes=DEFERRED\n\nFinally, as you can see from three of the links above, there is a whole web site dedicated to "Environmental Jobs & Careers" and they have tons of resources for your search:\nhttp://www.ecoemploy.com
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Just do your bit to help. There are plenty of things that you can do! Help the environment. Dont just not litter and think that you just helped. Go volunteer, go overseas and be an aid worker, council people who have to put up with violence, use whatever power u do have to tell people about world problems even if it is just family or friends, they have knowledge as well and im sure they will share it with you.\n\nDO NOT be scared of terrosts. All they do is blow up cars, not buildings. George bush blows up buildings and makes himself and his buddies 500 hundred times more profit!\n\nDont listen to everything you hear, experience as much as you can and make up your own set of beliefs. \n\nStay away from processed foods, they are POISION. They make you sick in the head and in the body. Stay out of cities, yes u can make a lot of money there but the air is dirty and so are the zombies that all work there too.\n\nWhen you are old and laying on your death bed, what are u going to think? What did you do in your lifetime that you can really say u are proud of? Did you help out that poor little orphan muslim girl, whos parents were murdered or did you buy a house and have a family, than divorce become lonely and go through countless partness trying to find purity again?\n\nBecome as self sufficant as you can be? can you live of your vegie patch? How about your fruit trees? have you planted enough trees toi counteract the car u drive, the air u breath ect or do u think someone else might do it for you?\n\nMake your life an adventure! Dont do what is normal, do what u can and want to.  Do it today. Meet people who u wouldnt usually! Make your life yours!\n\n Violence is the worst form of communication, so dont use it! I hope I could help..... Goodluck finding your answers and remeber that peace MUST start from the inside.