Dear Editor,
Today is World Animal Day. The day is a reminder for us to treat our pets and stray animals with respect.
If we look around our neighbourhood and our streets, we will find plenty of stray animals, especially dogs, cats and cows roaming about. That’s no way to show respect to these animals. It’s like we have disowned them. Animals enrich us in ways we don’t even know.
October 4 is also the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi who loved animals. It is a day to celebrate animal life in all its forms. It is a day to acknowledge the diverse roles that animals play in our lives. It is a day to acknowledge and be thankful for the way in which animals enrich our lives.
World Animal Day is a wonderful reminder of different ways in which animals enhance our lives.
World Animal Day helps bring people together to increase awareness and improve education worldwide so that animals can live the lives they deserve. Together we can change the way the world works and end animal cruelty and suffering forever.
The theme for World Animal Day 2023 is “Great or small, love them all”. The mission of this year’s World Animal Day is to raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe.
Jubel
