For many Kind Kids, helping animals goes beyond saving and protecting pets from suffering—there are many other humane actions you can take to help wildlife and farm animals too!

If you are enrolled in a school course that still includes animal dissection of any form, encourage your teacher to offer cruelty-free methods to students.  Over 6 billion animals, including frogs, mice, cats, and baby pigs are used for school dissection programs every year in the United States.  These animals do not have to suffer!  Click here for more information about humane alternatives to classroom dissection projects.

Encourage your loved ones to purchase only cruelty-free cosmetic and household cleaning products.  Many shampoos, perfumes, kitchen cleaners, etc. sold in the United States are tested on animals, including rabbits, dogs, mice, and apes.  With the advancement of technology, these tests are unnecessary, and without a doubt, they are always cruel.  Click here for a list of companies that test and do not test on animals—and start buying cruelty-free!

Do not attend circuses, roadside zoos and animal acts, rodeos, or other entertainment shows that use live wildlife and farm animals.  Often times the elephants, tigers, pigs, horses, and other animals forced to participate in these types of shows are treated neglectfully and cruelly trained to do their “tricks.”  Also, these animals are often forced to live in small buildings or cages for their entire lives.  By avoiding cruel animal entertainment shows, you will not contribute to animal suffering.

Consider adopting a vegetarian diet.  A vegetarian diet will help save many farm animals from cruelty and death, because it is a diet in which animals and meat are not eaten.  Besides helping animals, there are many human health and environmental benefits to adopting a vegetarian diet.  Many wise philosophers and leaders, such Mohandas Ghandi and Albert Einstein, have been vegetarians.  Alicia Silverstone, Casey Affleck, and Natalie Portman are just a few famous folks among the millions of kind-hearted people who eat humanely these days!  Not sure how to get started?  Click here for a great website resource on vegetarian and vegan diets for kids!

Visit wildlife and farm animal sanctuaries to meet and learn more about the many amazing animals we share this world with!  Share your new knowledge and love for different animals with family and friends.  Encourage everyone you know to help make the world a kinder, more humane place to live for all living beings.