Julia K Cole

Is Paying  It Forward on your Christmas List this year?   Well, here are just a few ways you can check it off! Volunteer at your local Homeless Shelter.  Serve a hot meal to a neighbor or a stranger. Visit/Volunteer at  a Nursing Home and/or Children's home. Your Local Shelter Is In Need Year Round! Foster, Rescue or Adopt a Pet from your Local Shelter.Shelters are Always looking for donations in the form of money, blankets, cleaning supplies, food, toys.  Volunteer to hold and play with kittens and pups and/or walk a dog. Donate food and/or money to your local food pantry (both human and animals)   Hold the door open for someone Let someone go ahead of you in line! If you ride the public bus, pay the fare for the person behind you (You can also do this at your favorite fast food hang out,  coffee shop, grocers, etc.) Read to the elderly, to children, to the blind, to the home bound! PET FOOD BANK: Donate Food for Needy fam...

Cats that are healthy, well-fed, and vaccinated against disease have much better odds of finding a happy forever home. Preventable diseases like feline herpes virus can stop an adoption in its tracks - not to mention being a danger to unprotected populations in the shelter. Although shelters try to meet the needs of their animals, they may not be able to afford the timely administration of much-needed vaccinations. With your help,  Greatergood.org  and Petfinder Foundation have teamed up to change that. We can vaccinate two million shelter animals in just two years, protecting them from common, contagious, preventable diseases. Together, we can give shelter cats a shot at life.  Just $ 10 vaccinates 5 shelter cats , and every donation helps. Petfinder Foundation works with shelters, rescue organizations, and animal welfare organizations across the United States. Their mission is to help ensure that no adoptable pet is euthanized for lack of a good home. Clic...