Global citizens are people who label themselves as someone greater than themselves, but as a member of the world. This lines up to being a global citizen because we are beginning to create connections with other people to help those animals that are being euthanized/abused and hopefully those connections will help us reach out to the rest of the world. This project has an effect on me because since FOREVER I have had a strong love for animals and it brings me great joy to be able to help them out. I have two dogs of my own, one of which I had actually adopted, and it makes me happy to help their furry brothers and sisters. I think this also has an affect on my community because I'm sure that most are not even aware of what happens to these dogs, and as the research spokesman, I will make it a goal to inform those who attend our event, thus having an impact on them. I hope this will have a domino effect throughout the community. I can't believe that our event is already going to be this weekend! I'm so excited to see what happens!
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Since the last time that I have blogged, I've been beginning my research about euthanizing. Something I learned is that 56% of dogs are euthanized in animal shelters, 15.8% of dogs are reunited with their owners, and 25% of dogs are adopted at animal shelters. (https://www.americanhumane.org/fact-sheet/animal-shelter-euthanasia-2/). After I finish gathering a decent amount of research, I'm going to work towards creating pamphlets about euthanizing and how to reduce the amount of euthanizing/increase the amount of adoptions that will be given out at our petdoption. After that, I will be making a poster with that information that will "tie up" an information booth that I will be running at the event. I plan on finishing my all of my research by this Friday, April 21.
In this project my role has now changed. Originally I was supposed to help with publicity. However, there's only so much that you can do in publicity. Shaylynne is already making a website that will provide information and help get word out. Teah is making posters and handling our social media account (instagram). So I decided that perhaps it'd be best if I contributed in another way. As a group we talked and decided that we want it to be more than just an event where dogs could possibly be adopted, we want people to know WHY they should adopt and want to inform them of our purpose. The reason why we chose to do this project was because we are against euthanizing (killing of animals through a drug), a method that is used at some animal shelters when animals don't get adopted. Our hope is that through this event, not only will dogs be adopted and given a new home, but we will be able to inform those who attend of euthanization. One day our group hopes to stop shelters from euthanizing, but for now we are going to try our best to simply save those dogs that could get euthanized (not from the shelter we are working with) by getting the word out. My new job is to research more about euthanizing and be the one who talks to people during the event about this problem in order to spread the word (as well as make very cute informational pamphlets).
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Miranda B.I will be assisting my group by researching and during the event, getting the word out on euthanizing and how we can potentially stop it. Archives
May 2017
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