“Because animals are so prized by the Infinite Light for their ability to love and forgive both here and hereafter, the souls there have also told me that cruelty toward animals is a much greater offense to the Infinite Light than even cruelty toward another human being. Why? Because animals, at the hands of humans, are unable to defend themselves properly and must suffer the pain inflicted upon them in silence. "Take care of your pets----for their sake and for your life review's sake. They are the closest thing to God that we will ever find on the earth."

Don't Buy Fur - In China, Thailand and the Philippines more than 2 million cats and dogs are killed in the following ways each year: Hanging by the neck from a wire noose, water is poured down their throat through a hose until they drown, bludgeoning them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions, but not always immediate death. Many remain conscious while they are skinned are struggle to defend themselves to the very end. 40 million animals are killed each year for their fur: reared on factory farms that cause them to go mad and mutilate themselves and each other, or caught in vicious leg hold traps and left to starve, freeze, drown, be beaten to death or gnaw off their own limbs in a futile attempt to escape. This is the reality of the fur trade. Learn more: www.caft.org.uk/factsheets/cats-and-dogs.html

Boycott Pet Stores That Sell Dogs - Roughly 99% of all pet stores that sell puppies get them from puppy mills. Dogs and puppies that live in puppy mills have inadequate, water, food, shelter and veterinary care. Little money is actually spent on their care because they are bred purely for profit. Dogs are often crammed into small cages unable to move around and sit in there own excrement. Often these cages are stacked on top of each other with nothing to separate the dogs below from the ones above. This means that excrement from the dogs above falls directly on to those below. If a dog dies in a cage and is not removed the body fluids of the decaying dog falls on to the ones below. This causes extreme filth and disease and in some cases death. Don't buy while others die adopt a puppy from your local shelter. Learn more: www.puppymillprotest.org

Boycott Circuses - Animals do not naturally ride bicycles, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. To force them to perform these confusing and physically uncomfortable tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bull hooks, and other painful tools of the trade. They spend 95 percent of their lives imprisoned in small cages only to be let out when they must perform. Elephants are kept in leg shackles. When not performing, elephants can be seen rocking and swaying back and forth from frustration, anger and boredom. Learn more: www.circuses.com

Spay And Neuter Your Pets and Keep Your Cats Indoors - It is estimated that between six and eight million cats and dogs enter animal shelters every year in the United States, but only about half of them make it out alive the rest are euthanized or sold to laboratories to be used for hideous animal experimentation. Stray animals live hard lives on the street before dying hard, agonizing deaths from starvation, freezing, disease, getting hit by cars and poisoning by antifreeze or pesticides. Some are even killed for sport or pleasure by cruel and sadistic individuals. When people let their cats outside each day they are subjecting them to these hazards. Learn more: www.sniksnak.com/stop_s-n.html and www.cat-world.com.au/IndoorCats.htm

Boycott Products That Conduct Animal Testing - It is estimated that over 100 million animals suffer every year in laboratory experiments world-wide. The animals involved will either die as a result of the experiment or be deliberately killed afterwards. In the laboratory an animal may be poisoned; deprived of food, water or sleep; applied with skin and eye irritants; subjected to psychological stress; deliberately infected with disease; brain damaged; paralyzed; surgically mutilated; irradiated; burned; gassed; force fed and electrocuted. They test or develop almost anything from household products, cosmetics and food additives to pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, agrochemicals, pet foods, medical devices and tobacco and alcohol products. Animal experiments tell us about animals, not about people. For example arsenic is very dangerous for humans but does not present the same level of threat to rats, mice or sheep. Advanced non-animal research techniques such as computer simulations, cell, tissue or organ cultures, complex artificial systems, epidemiology, QSARs or brain imaging that utilize human biological material or data can be used. These techniques are not only more humane but also more relevant and reliable.These companies and others: Nestle Purina Petcare, Hills Pet Nutrition (Colgate Palmolive), Iam (Protor and Gambal) and Petigree (Mars) all conduct cruel animal experiments on cats and dogs. Learn more: www.buav.org

Boycott Zoos - Wild animals imprisoned in zoos suffer physically and mentally from the lack of freedom captivity imposes. The frustrated animals spend much of their time pacing, walking in tight circles, swaying or rolling their heads, pulling out their hair and feathers and self -inflicted wounds. Zoo babies are crowd-pleasers, but when they get older and attract fewer visitors, many are sold or killed by zoos. Deer, tigers, lions, and other animals who breed frequently are sometimes sold to "game" farms where hunters pay for the "privilege" of killing them; others are killed for their meat and/or hides. Other "surplus" animals may be sold to circuses or smaller, more poorly run zoos or to slaughter houses. Learn more: www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=67