National Children and Pets Day is a pet holiday to celebrate the friendships we form with our first dogs, cats, and other pets whose footprints forever leave an impression on us.
When is National Children’s and Pets Day?
National Children and Pets Day is celebrated every year on April 26.
This pet holiday was founded in 2005 by celebrity family and pet lifestyle expert Colleen Paige to highlight the shared bond between kids and their pets.
How can your family celebrate this pet holiday?
National Children’s and Pets Day makes for a wonderful time both as a time to walk along the memory lane as we remember our own childhood companions and an opportunity to celebrate. association to:
- pass on to the next generation a passion for compassion for all of our furry, finned, and fluffy friends.
- teaches children responsibility through pet care and safety precautions when dealing with animals.
- widely promote pet adoption options so dogs and cats in need of a permanent home can find a boy or girl friend.
I can personally attest that dogs and other pets play a huge role in children’s lives – both in childhood and in later life.
Our Peanut dog’s special friendship — along with Daisy the duck — was the subject of my first major magazine sale to Reader’s Notice magazine…and he started my pet writing career with a lifelong love of all animals.
Nurturing: Great for Pets, Great for Kids
Another way to celebrate this pet holiday consider fostering pets.
In our digital age everythingParents are often desperate for ideas for activities that will take their children’s attention away from electronics. A great option may be near the nearest animal shelter or rescue.
Animal welfare organizations constantly need individuals and families to keep pets. Foster care is basically temporary care for your pet in your home until a permanent home for the pet is found.
All types of pets need to be nurtured, from dogs and cats, puppies and kittens to rabbits, guinea pigs, birds and more.
And nurturing is literally saving the animal’s life. An estimated 1.5 million pets are needlessly killed in shelters in the United States each year (source: ASPCA).
According to Petco . FoundationIf only two percent of pet households in the United States had one pet each year, the euthanasia of healthy, pet-friendly pets could be a thing of the past.
Pet rearing is an activity that more and more families are finding to be a wonderful activity that benefits both pets and children.
Some families foster for a few days, and some for several months, depending on the family’s schedule. And, most paid organizations provide and provide veterinary care for pets.
Here are a few reasons why foster care is a great choice for families with children:
Contributing to the greater good
Caroline Golon, whose family has multiple pets, said: ‘While some parents may worry their children will be too attached to their pets and not want to give them up, it’s all about locate. litter of kittens every summer.
“Of course we want to keep them all! But we encounter foster situations that say a lot about the importance of the work we have to do – preparing the kittens for their forever families – and by letting them go to loving families. love them, we’re doing the best for them. animals in general because then we can help more kittens. My daughters, aged 8 and 10, have embraced that concept and it worked for us.”
Warm and fuzzy companionship
Because activities with screens have infiltrated our daily lives in almost every way, caring for animals is the quintessential break away from those glowing screens. Dogs and cats need to be played together, and pet-related tasks need to be focused.
And don’t forget the furry hugs! Talk about the dark side of cold and hard electronics!
A job to do
Children of all ages can gain experience and learn the responsibility of caring for pets. From giving them a safe, loving home, to caring for them to eat, drink and go for a walk or shovel in the litter box, pet care is a small undertaking.
But even beyond the daily “errands,” much of what families with children can bring to foster care is the opportunity to interact with the animals and learn about them so they can learn about them. could land in a perfect house.
Pets, regardless of age, benefit from being around children so that the foster family can report to potential adopters about the animal’s temperament.
Socialization is one of the key things that kids bring to the equation. If a pet thrives on getting lots of attention from kids, that’s a great thing to know. Shy pets can come out of their shell around children.
On the other hand, pets that do not like the attention of children can be adopted in a home without children.
Animal welfare organizations learn a lot about animals and what is best for them by having foster families.
Service hours
With many high schools across the country requiring students to work long hours, parents are constantly helping their children find qualified volunteer opportunities.
Nancy Fay of San Antonio, Texas was shocked to discover that the time her daughter had spent fostering multiple pets for the City of San Antonio Animal Care Service would translate into hours of service.
“I was surprised and delighted to learn that gratuity is included in the hours of service. I spread the word because it’s a great experience for children and so important for animals,” she said. Fay’s daughter ended up with 2,000 hours of fostering service she’d done over the years.
The Broward County Animal Shelter in Fort Lauderdale, Florida specifically recruits teenagers to care for kittens and puppies that are too young to live in shelters, according to the report. Venus. Broward High has 40 hours of work required for students to graduate. The shelter provides the children with everything they need to foster.
Fostering a pet for just two weeks can help students get the hours they need. Of course, this work requires parental permission, but students must undertake this work.
Fostering is an easy way to make an impact on animal welfare in our country, a way your family can help homeless animals and become a lifeline.
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