Have a blessed Christmas

Perhaps to reiterate, add to and expound on [the essences of] the message in the poster below, we would like to encourage all to take animal welfare in a constructive light by opening your heart to the realities of animals in captivity and in the wild. Commercial pictures of pets may paint to you all-too-rosy ideas and ideals of pets and the domestication of animals. Or they encourage -- sometimes, insiduously so -- the treatment of animals as mere commodities, a statement of fashion or a status symbol, or a fuzzy-furry entity likened to a cushiony pillow you hug in bed while you snooze.

Having pets is, no doubt, more, so much more, than the ideal we would all like to wholeheartedly and willingly embrace and bring with us as beautiful notions of companionship, warmth, friendship, happiness and contentment that we carry in life.

For most who read this blog, you can only be too aware of the true meaning to having a pet and commiting to one throughout all vagaries of life and living.

We hereby encourage all to take a strong stand against ignorance, negligence and disrespect for the dignity and quality of life often denied to animals, speak up against those who defile these principles and willingly encourage the careful treatment of all lives.

In this celebratory season of giving and sharing, animal societies and welfare groups across the world discourage the treatment of animals as Christmas gifts and gently remind all to keep in mind our animals who live the reality of threadbare existence and hand-to-mouth survival, to spare a thought for them and hopefully, lend a helping hand to needy ones and the ones who help them.

To our supporters, we thank you in earnest for being with us throughout this time and more importantly, for being with the animals in thought and action. It is people like yourselves who keep us going in this constant activism for an improvement in the lives of these animals, esp. our strays, in all degrees that will go a long way in respecting an animal as a living, sentient being and a part of this world, nature and our coexistences.