the Jane Austen Maids Foundation: Animal House

I don't understand the atrocities human beings can do to animals. The animal actions/causes on change.org just break my heart. Horses being dragged for miles behind a car in Greece and the person responsible laughing about it, starving dogs in the US, poisoned dogs in Brazil, horrific conditions for dogs in puppy mill breeding situations, elephants being abused and left behind bellowing as their other elephant friends are leaving (why they weren’t all removed from the situation by the authorities is beyond me). I can only sign so many of these petitions before I have to switch to the environmental causes or turn the computer off. I feel bad enough when Lars wants to play fetch and I have to do schoolwork or when we’re hanging out on the couch and I stop petting him so he starts pawing at my hand til I pet him again.


So for the next couple of months, the donations will be from a subset (Article 23, Line A) of the Jane Austen Maids Foundation, called the Jake and Lars (and Brinna and Grant and Candy and Nilla and Magnum and the cats that were always running around the barn and my pony Bunny and my horses Whisper, Ziggy, Anna, and Nicky and all the other horses and all the cows and goats and chickens and pigs I grew up with) Foundation. Hereafter to be known as the Jake and Lars (etc.) Foundation.





For my mid month donation, I’m donating to the Center for Biological Diversity, the organization that provides most of the petitions in the things to do part of the sidebar, and who does a lot of work on behalf of endangered species. I'm donating to their polar bear fund, which will help them fight to retain endangered species protection for them. There is currently a lot of pressure from groups who want to hunt polar bears, because evidently a dead polar bear as a hunting trophy is worth about $40,000. I won't put the picture on here since the image of a man with a gun kneeling proudly over a bloody polar bear is more than I can bear.


The next two donations, the May donations, will be to animal rescue organizations not yet determined.


And stay tuned for a page from Lars: he has started following several blogs by other dogs. His favorite so far is aweinerdogblog.blogspot.com. I think it reminds him of Jake. Though he also really likes ewix2.blogspot.com, which is a blog by a dog named Buster about him and his friends.