October Dates–Test Your Knowledge! - National Humane Education Society

World Vegetarian Day--What Country Has the Most Vegetarians?

Italy India United States

National Black Dog Day--Do You Know What Breeds I Am?

Pit Bull Chinese Shar-Pei Rottweiler German Shepherd

World Farm Animals Day--How Many Sheep Faces Can One Sheep Remember?

100 50 25

National Feral Cat Day--One Chicago Neighborhood Studied the Effects of Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) in Cat Colonies. How Much Did the Populations Decrease?

Between 20%-25% Around 12% Over 50%

Wolf Awareness Week--What State at the Beginning of 2020, Proposed a Reintroduction Program in Their State?

Colorado Wyoming Idaho

Reptile Awareness Day--In UNODC's 2020 World Wildlife Crime Report, Turtles & Tortoises Were Trafficked This Much.

26.7% 47.4% 17.8% 7.6% 0.5%

How Did I Do?

SOURCES:

World Vegetarian Day–Sawe, Benjamin. “Countries With The Highest Rates Of Vegetarianism.” Countries with the Highest Rate of Vegetarianism, 20 Sept. 2019, www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-highest-rates-of-vegetarianism.html. Accessed 23 Sept. 2020.

National Black Dog Day–Photo and data used with permission by the San Francisco SPCA.

World Farm Animals Day–Kendrick KM, da Costa AP, Leigh AE, Hinton MR, Peirce JW. Sheep don’t forget a face. Nature. 2001 Nov 8;414(6860):165-6. doi: 10.1038/35102669. Erratum in: Nature. 2007 May 17;447(7142):346. PMID: 11700543.

National Feral Cat Day–Spehar DD, Wolf PJ. A Case Study in Citizen Science: The Effectiveness of a Trap-Neuter-Return Program in a Chicago Neighborhood. Animals (Basel). 2018 Jan 18;8(1):14. doi: 10.3390/ani8010014. PMID: 29346278; PMCID: PMC5789309.

Wolf Awareness Week

Reptile Awareness Day–UNODC, World Wildlife Crime Report 2020,
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2020.