5 Benefits of Giving Back to Pet Charities
We all know the benefits of giving to charity, whether it is by check or by our presence at a volunteer event. However, did you know that there are so many hidden benefits to giving back to pet charities? We do not always see how our dollars or our time can affect the lives of others; however, helping out with pets is a sure-fire way to help others and gain some benefits for you as well.
Helping Pets
Shelter
There are many ways to help pets: donating your money, of course, and donating your time at animal shelters. Shelters can save pets from an unfortunate existence caused by a myriad of circumstances. Funds and manpower are limited so any help with items such as feeding, walking, or bathing are most appreciated.
Adopt
Another amazing way to help pets is to match available pets with potential homes. Matching an available pet with a new family has great rewards and benefits. When you see a pet through the adoption process and place it in a loving home, you have helped two-fold. You have helped a family gain a new family member, and you have helped save a pet from an unfortunate outcome.
Population
Simply advocating on behalf of a pet by passing on vital information on spaying and neutering can help control the pet population. Many pet charities devote significant resources to help owners and shelters fix animals, as well as educate the community at large about the issues surrounding the pet population.
Helping Humans
Companion
There are so many ways that a pet helps a human being. First of all, there is companionship. Having a pet means that the pet becomes a new part of the family. Children can learn responsibility in caring for a pet, or a pet can keep a elderly person on their own company.
Assist
Pets offer great strength to humans on a different level. Sometimes, pets assist humans with the day-to-day living that most healthy individuals take for granted. When you volunteer your time to train an assist dog, an alert dog, or a seeing-eye dog, you take time to help a fellow human being. Dogs can assist humans in so many ways other than just for companionship:
- Autism
- Diabetic assist
- Heart assist
- Depression
- Anxiety and panic
- Hearing dogs
When you take the time and trouble to volunteer to help pet charities, you take the time and trouble to help other human beings. The benefits and rewards are numerous. You get to save a pet from an unfortunate existence; you get to help other human beings with health (both mental and physical) ailments. However, most of all, you get to feel good.
Bottom line is that when you give back, you feel good. Feeling good through giving back radiates from you to others and others can notice that vibe. It is a win/win situation all the way around – both for you, the pets, and the other human beings you serve.
