Resources & Links

To learn more about issues close to your heart,
sign up for action alerts,
and participate in healing for animals and the planet

COMPANION ANIMALS

The most important groups we can support are our local animal shelters and rescue groups--for they take care of the animals in our community. The first four are favorites from my own community:

• SPCA of Monterey County
• Monterey County Animal Services
• Animal Friends Rescue Project
• Salinas Animal Services
• How to Stop Euthanasia in Shelters
• Rural Area Veterinary Services
  Provides high quality direct-care veterinary field clinics to improve the health and welfare of animals in remote rural communities who would likely not otherwise have health care. An exemplary program that helps an enormous number of animals, operating with a small but deeply devoted and committed staff.

WILD ANIMALS

• Defenders of Wildlife
  Special section: Eye on Palin—reports on Alaskan wolf killings
• AGRO A Coalition to End Aerial Gunning of Wildlife
• National Resources Defense Council
• Wildlife SOS
• The Elephant Sanctuary
• Performing Animals Welfare Society
• President Obama
  Encourage President Obama to include the welfare of animals in his agenda, not just the rights of those who hunt and kill animals for sport as his current agenda reflects. See "Sportsmen" under his list of Additional Issues. You can email him directly from that page.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a vandal.
When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.

~Joseph Wood Krutch, Animal Abuse

FARM ANIMALS

• Sentient Beings.Org
  Promoting Compassion for America's Most Abused Animals
• Farm Sanctuary

WHALES AND OTHER MARINE ANIMALS

• Center for Coastal Studies --my favorite of all the whale advocacy groups!
  
• Cetacean Society International
• Deadly Sounds short film from Save the Whales Again
• How Whales are Harmed by the Fishing Gear
• Ocean Mammal Institute
  Important information on underwater noise pollution (LFAS low frequency active sonar)
• Ocean Alliance
  Roger Payne's organization
• Oceana
• Sea Shepherd
  Heroic efforts to stop whaling

We may one day find the Peace we seek, and it will be when we accept ourselves not as the Crown of Creation, but as one of the Jewels in the Crown, alongside the People of the Sea. ~Scott Taylor

ALL ANIMALS

• In Defense of Animals
• Humane Society of the United States -Humane Alerts
• International Fund for Animal Welfare
• World Society for Protection of Animals/
• International Animal Rescue/

PRAYER AND HEALING REQUEST GROUPS

• Animal Communicators Coalition for Animal Welfare:
  Prayer Requests for prayers and spiritual healing for individuals of any species and Healing Circle Fountain of Energy
• Prayers for Pets
• Circle of Healing Purrs:
  prayers and healing Reiki energies especially for cats
• The Voice for Love
• Silent Unity

CRUELTY FREE FOOD CHOICES & PRODUCTS

• Happy Dogs Play
  Safe and non toxic toys for dogs! All toys are cruelty free--no animals products used to make them.
• Caring Consumer
  Lists of Cruelty Free Products and Companies
• The Vegetarian Resource Group
• Why I Became a Vegetarian
• How Whales are Harmed by the Fishing Gear
• How Your Supplement Choices Could be Harming Whales

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you can do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

~ Paul McCartney

WHEN COMPASSION HURTS: Resources for Self Help

• Article: The Whales Lesson on Death and Helping Those Who Suffer
• CD: A Healing Meditation after witnessing animal tragedy (one of two meditations in a four hour CD set)
• Flower Essences: available from fesflowers.com

  Glassy Hyacinth

  This essence has been used successfully to help both survivors and relief workers in war zones. For those who witness or hear about abhorrent cruelty, violence, or any suffering of others, it restores strength and hope to the soul. Because of the overwhelming and horrific nature of many traumas, it’s normal to block our deepest feelings of response. But internalizing the horror of trauma can only be short term, it is bound to come back later as more complicated post traumatic stress. There is no escaping the need to process the emotional pain of seeing or hearing about terrible things that happen to animals. Glassy Hyacinth helps us process our pain with gentleness. It restores our equilibrium, heals our hearts so we can feel inner peace despite the unfinished work of changing the world for animals.

  Pink Yarrow

  This is a classic essence for emotional protection. For those of us who can be sponges for others’ energy, who are naturally empathic or sensitive, it helps us create appropriate emotional boundaries. It allows us to feel authentic compassion and connection with others (animals and people) without dysfunctional merging with, or taking on their pain or other energy.

  Green Cross Gentian

  Positive qualities: Courageous soul alignment with the living being of the earth; hope and resolve for world service and healing despite setbacks or challenges

  Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of overwhelm, despair and defeat with regard to the condition of the earth; bereft and discouraged when living connection with the earth is disrupted due to natural or man-made catastrophe; ability to carry the elemental “cross” of the world.

  For more information on flower essences, please visit the section Flower Essences for Animals & People.