The Rescuers Creed

I shall be a believer of all that is good in man and of all that is deserving in animals. I shall plead for their lives, campaign for their safety and uphold their right to a natural death. I shall seek out the injured and the maimed, the unloved, and the abandoned and tend

to them in their last days. I shall not forget their place in the hierarchy of life, nor that we walk in each other's paths. I shall bear witness to the wonder they bring into our lives and to the beauty they bestow

upon our souls. I shall renew their spirits when they are weary, bind their wounds when they bleed, cradle them when they whimper, and comfort them when they mourn. I shall be near them in their hour of greatest need - a companion and friend when the time has come. I shall watch over them and console them and ask that the angels gather them in their arms. From the creatures of the earth I shall

learn the fruits of compassion and undying love, and I shall be called the beloved of God. In their company I shall indeed be blessed.

~ Susan M. Pearson ~

Even in the darkest hours,There is always Hope.

When in the lives of mendo we forget those of thisworld that need our protection?

Is it when the only payment offered is pure-undying love, blind faith and companionship.

"He is your friend, your partner, your

defender, your dog. You are his life, his

love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and

true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to

him to be worthy of such

devotion."

One person can make a

difference in many lives.By just the

simple act of compassion.

"The Animals' Savior"

I looked at all the caged animals in the shelter...the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and betrayal.

And I was angry. "God," I said, "this is terrible! Why don't you do something?"

God was silent for a moment and then He spoke softly. "I have done something," He replied.

"I created you."

©Jim Willis 1999  

To have a home and be truly happy is bliss.

Would you want that for yourself?

A picture is worth a thousand words

Ask your self:

If I was part of a family how would I want to be treated?

Now how did you answer that?

Instead many treat them like they do everything else in today's

society. That they are disposable, and unworthy of our time, effort

and compassion. For all they give Of them selves just to be in our

presence and that all they ask for in return is love this is how they

treat them.

"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But can they suffer?"        --Jeremy Bentham

No other creature in all of creation has the capacity

to inflict suffering and misery on the scale and

depth as humans.

Some final thoughts by great people who were known for their exceptional minds.

"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man." --Mohandas Gandhi

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."        --Pythagoras (philosopher and mathematician)

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."        --Abraham Lincoln

"Even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath, so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is Vanity."        --Ecclesiastes 3:19

"If all the beasts were gone, man would die from loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast, happens to the man."        --Chief Seattle

"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."        --Albert Einstein (physicist, Nobel 1921)

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all livings things, Man will not himself find peace."        --Albert Schweitzer

"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."        --Saint Francis of Assisi (monk, mystic and preacher)

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."        --Immanuel Kant

"There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings, but they are people like unto you."        --The Koran (sacred scripture of Islam)

"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different."        --Hippocrates (philosopher)

“It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.” --Ghandi

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."        --Ghandi

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."        --William Ralph Inge (1860-1954)

"For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal (man) is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand on the last day before the Judgment Seat and say "I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog." And yet we call them "only animals"!"        --Henry Ward Beecher (abolitionist)

"Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul."        --Pythagoras (philosopher and mathematician)

"Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you--alas, it is true of almost every one of us!"        --Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novelist)

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."        --Thomas Edison (inventor)

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."        --Arthur Schopenhauer (philosopher)

"A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast."        --Proverbs 12:10

Be the dawn to this long night of suffering

(Be a testament to love)

Stand as the light in the darkness.A light of hope, compassion and love.

Be the salvation of one of these deserving animals.Say that no more will you be abused, and unwanted. That as long as you live, you will have a place by my

side and in my heart.