Teen Activism: Animal Abandoment
By: Chloe Kabat
Teen Activism
Teen Activists
Malala Yousafzai
Alex Lin
Rose McCoy
Imagine a 12 year old girl being able to change her school in a few tasks. That's what Rose McCoy did, at the time being 12 years old. She saved some baby chickens from an egg/chick experiment in class, and brought the issue to the principle. She started an animals rights club, encouraged her teacher to go vegan, and was arrested for protesting against the Sea World float at the Thanksgiving Day parade. “The officer said that I was ruining the parade, but the means that I'd been noticed!” She said.
Animal Abandonment
Faye Carey: Animal Abandonment Activist
https://www.sweetyhigh.com/blog/girl-power/faye-carey
http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/teenage-girl-is-dogs-best-friend-2013080912#axzz42biFg3zU
Organizations Helping Out
“We are Animals Knights fighting for the rights of all animals.” That is one of the things that has been posted on the website of the Kids Against Animal Cruelty organization, or KAAC. The founder of the organization is a 16 year old teen activist named Lou Wegner. He started the foundation when he went to Los Angeles and was shootings short film. He started to volunteer at a local shelter, and started to realize how many animals were being put down. “It was heartbreaking. All these dogs crying in their cages. Knowing they would be put down broke my heart.” After two years of the organization running, it now has over 12,000 members, 50,000 supporters, and 20,000 animals being saved from being put down. Lou also hopes that one day he may have a facility on every state, and has worked to inform as many people as possible about animal abandonment issues. He started another organization called “For The Love Of Dog”, and is a co-host for a radio talk show called “Love that Dog Hollywood! Kids and animals”. Lou has defiantly come a long way from when he started, and is making LA a better place to be.
Sources
https://www.sweetyhigh.com/blog/girl-power/faye-carey
http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/teenage-girl-is-dogs-best-friend-2013080912#axzz42biFg3zU
http://www.americanhumane.org/animals/adoption-pet-care/issues-information/pet-overpopulation.html
http://aldf.org/blog/animal-abandonment-is-a-crime/
http://prime.peta.org/2010/01/why-people-abandon-animals
http://www.globalanimal.org/2012/11/30/teenager-saves-20000-animals-from-euthanasia/
http://thekindlife.com/blog/2013/04/kind-activist-rose-mccoy/