If you are partial to stray animals, you can try helping them survive on the street. Of course, the ideal option is to find new owners for them, but this will take a long way and spend your time and money. But even one saved life is worthy to put strength and soul into it.
Instructions
Step 1
Avoid making temporary outdoor feeders. Unfortunately, in our country, this type of assistance to animals is extremely negative. Especially if such feeders are arranged next to residential buildings. Residents of the houses are afraid that these places will be chosen by flocks of stray dogs, which can pose a threat to people. Seemingly non-aggressive cats can settle in basements and entrances, which is fraught with unpleasant odors and constant litters of kittens. If you still need to feed the animals, remove the bowls after feeding to avoid attracting more stray animals.
Step 2
If you want to provide real help to animals, take them into new families. Although for this, you first need to catch the dog or cat, show it to the veterinarian, treat for diseases, put the coat in proper shape, fatten and promote. Complicated? Yes, but this is exactly the help that will prolong the life of the animal.
Step 3
Catch only those animals that are tuned in to communicate with humans. Quite wild, aggressive dogs or cats will no longer get along with people and they should be dealt with by utilities. After you have taken your pet home, wash it and show it to your veterinarian. He will prescribe procedures for taking tests and carry out the necessary treatment. Unfortunately, there are almost no healthy street animals. "Girls" must be sterilized.
Step 4
Be prepared for the fact that the treatment will require certain financial costs from you, and the pet will live in your home, which means that you will have expenses for its maintenance. You can ask for help from the same caring people on special forums of animal lovers. There are always topics for helping stray animals and you have every chance that your ad will be responded to and money will be transferred to you.
Step 5
Look for new owners or overexposure for the pet. For overexposure, animals are taken that are promising in terms of further device. Overexposure can be in apartments and in private houses. Animal care is carried out by people who receive money from you to maintain the animal and pay for their labor. You can find people who only take money to feed the animal. It is clear that the animal will not be able to live there for a long time - this requires large financial costs.
Step 6
To search for new owners, use all possible information resources. Post ads on all forums and sites for animal lovers. Post pictures on social networks, ask to spread the information of all your friends in their profiles and blogs. To do this, take good pictures of the animal.
Step 7
If for some reason you cannot keep a cat or dog at home, volunteer at an animal shelter. The first time it is better to go there with people who help the shelter on an ongoing basis - strangers are reluctant to let in there. At the shelter, you will have to clean up the enclosures, prepare food for the animals and feed them, walk the dogs, and clean up the territory. And don't forget to look for a new home for your pets. Apart from volunteers, such animals have no one to hope for.
Step 8
Provide a shelter with essential needs. You always need medications, vitamins, toys and collars for dogs, scratching posts for cats. In winter, pets need to insulate the enclosures that are outside. Old woolen blankets and carpets are suitable for this. Food in the shelters is rather poor. It can be one porridge, sometimes with vegetables and stew. Therefore, pets perceive dry food as a delicacy and are very happy with such a diet.
