#109animals

It's DAY 7 of #sevendaystomakeachange already 😿 In honor of the last day of this amazing challenge, here's me and @ringo_thegringo doing yoga when @yoga_girl came to Atlanta on my 18th birthday! Miss you. I'm so thankful for all that this challenge has motivated me to do. Reading other people's ideas and stories touched my heart and creating my own ways to become more involved was all truly inspiring. I've always thought being apart of the positive changes in the world was my purpose in life anyway so it feels very good to be able to fulfill a little piece of that in my life right now. For the last day of the challenge signed up for news letters from @wwf and @nodapl (nodaplsolidarity.org, world wildlife.org). I chose these two specifically because of my respect for their work and because I care about animals, people and our environment and these organizations take immense care and action towards all with much dedication. I also finally made my donation to @109world and you can too if you click on the link in my bio! If you haven't noticed already, I actually put a different link to different organizations all the time. So my friends can always have a kickstart to making a change. We live in a big beautiful world, let's take care of her and all who coexist on it. Thank you so much @109world @sgtpeppersfriends @yoga_girl and everyone involved in this challenge! Keep shining your light ✨ #109animals #sevendaystomakeachange #ringo #yogaeverydamnday #bethechange #worldwildlifefund #nodapl

DAY 6 of #sevendaystomakeachange is asking us to find our nearest animal shelter and to see how we can help out. This is my moment to do something! Yesterday I wrote about @mostlymutts01 and how I'd like to get more involved, today I'm actually getting more involved. I decided to use this as my first step. I got up today and made a trip to the closest pet store to get some things to donate to the shelter from the Mostly Mutts wish list. I went over to the shelter, which I found was conveniently close to where I live actually, and dropped off my things. The staff is super friendly and even gave me a tour where I got to meet some awesome new friends that I hope to be seeing more of. The little lover in this photo, Potsie, was one of the sweetest things I've ever met. I fell so in love with all the dogs and I'm so glad to know these animals are being treated very well. Thanks so much for all you do @mostlymutts01 , I hope to be volunteering with you very soon! 🐶💛 #109animals #sevendaystomakeachange #potsie #mostlymutts #happiness

DAY 5 of #sevendaystomakeachange is about doing to research of the animal welfare in our own communities. This is tough because the first things that come to my mind were actually pretty negative. I'm thinking about Petland and other terrible places that get their animals from puppy mills and mistreat them. Which I know this post could be spread more awareness of that sort of thing but I wanted to do more research to see if not only I could find more supportive information, but also something positive. I couldn't find exact numbers but I did find that there are around 100 different animal shelters in Georgia (not all were no-kill☹️) but one in particular that stuck out to me over all is Mostly Mutts, a shelter that really is 100% NO KILL. I remembered learning about them when I was apart of a club in high school, Lucky Bucs, to help find homes for strays. Honestly, I don't miss high school at all and hardly even care to talk about it, but I have a lot of good things to say about that club I was in my freshman year. The teachers that ran the club were very good about staying involved and actually getting things accomplished. They let students be foster parents to the animals and got involved with other no kill animal shelters and actually helped find many loving homes. I remember a volunteer from Mostly Mutts came and talked with us once and we learned about how much hard work they put into something they felt very passionate about and also how expensive it was. NO animals are killed, they work hard to take care of every single one. Animals are actually even rescued by Mostly Mutts just moments before the were supposed to be euthanized somewhere else. They are trying to minimize the number of perfectly lovable animals euthanized at other shelters in Atlanta. I plan to increase my involvement of helping animals again with more than just "puppy needs a home" Instagram posts and I hope that Lucky Bucs is still going strong at Allatoona High School. Everyone give extra loving to your fur babies today 🐶💛🐱 #sevendaystomakeachange #109animals #mostlymutts @109world @sgtpeppersfriends @yoga_girl

DAY 4 of #sevendaystomakeachange is asking everyone to take animals off of their plates! This is an easy one for me considering I live like this everyday and have been for more than 7 years. I don't plan on ever eating animals again and I hope I'll eventually stop craving cheese so much so it's easier to be vegan. So today I replaced my already nonexistent animal meal with a delicious vegan friendly Açai bowl🍓 The bowl is topped with chia seeds, hemp seeds, coconut flakes, raspberries, banana and chocolate peanut butter. I love seeing more and more people transitioning to vegetarian or vegan. I once read that taking animals off your plate actually saves around 100 animals every year. Thats something to feel really good about and definitely keeps you motivated. As much as I do not agree with eating meat I will never go around and be hateful about it. I'm not here to make more issues, I'm here to make more peace. What I will do is spread my message and anyone can take what they want from it but I'll also continue to be supportive of the efforts others put into making the differences they can make. I'm just proud to see that compassion has a place in everyone's heart. The whole world may not go veggie or vegan but I love the whole world anyway. The world needs love, endless love. That's the message I hope to be radiating with being vegan. It's all about love my friend. So spread the love, go vegan. 💚 #109animals #sevendaystomakeachange #vegan #vegetarian #plantbased #crueltyfreeliving #acaibowl @109world @sgtpeppersfriends @yoga_girl

DAY 3 of #sevendaystomakeachange 😻 Now is my chance to rant about how much I love Tybee. Tybee is actually the truest friend in the world. He's been by my side since before we lost our other cat Hunter at the end of my middle school years. He's been there to calm my stress when I got home from school. He's been there to play with my locs when I'm too serious in my yoga. He's always been down to walk by my side on adventures through the woods. He'd wait outside doors for me and cuddle on my chest or by my side when we sleep. We even eat together. We've been frustrated with each other when he wants to eat a bird and I won't let him, but we're always back to loving each other when it's all settled out. *RIP to all the little creatures Tybee killed that I couldn't save* I remember when Tybee was so in love with Mustang and they were the best of friends. I remember the last walk I went on with Mustang and Tybee was right by her side. He'd nudge his head against her and sweep his tail across her nose when she'd rest showing her love. He was there when she was in pain. He was there when I was in pain from losing her. It's been really, REALLY hard not having a dog in my life anymore. I still cry over how much I miss Mustang, often. It's also hard not living with Tybee anymore. One day after I left my parents house I even cried all the way home because I missed having him around all the time and to cuddle up with at night. One could say I'm just emotional but I feel that animals put so much love into the relationship they form with you. It is different from human relationships but just as powerful. They've changed my life in beautiful ways and that's part of why I chose to be the change for all animals. 🐱🐶🐯🐷🐻🐘🦁🐮🐰 #sevendaystomakeachange #109animals #blackcat #tybee #mustang #iloveyou @sgtpeppersfriends @109world @yoga_girl